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Advocates Put Pressure on UO President To Act Against Sexual Violence On Campus

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The UO Coalition to End Sexual Violence is continuing to put pressure on University of Oregon president Michael Gottfredson. The group wants him to apologize to the campus community for how the administration dealt with a recent alleged sexual assault.

Jennifer Freyd is a professor of psychology at the U of O.  She says the Coalition has been concerned about sexual violence on campus for a long time. The news of an alleged rape of a female student by three U of O Basketball players draws attention to the issues and also causes alarm.

Freyd: "And what I am asking for is that all or at least some administrators display institutional courage and come entirely clean, become completely open and accountable, allocate resources to prevent this problem and then we can move forward, then we can heal."

Freyd says the coalition wants Gottfredson to hold a press conference Thursday at noon to apologize for how the school dealt with the recent case. She'd like him to outline measures the University is taking to prevent sexual violence, and to sign the academic freedom policy.
 

Rachael McDonald is KLCC’s former News Director. Rachael has a BA in English from the University of Oregon. She started out in public radio as a newsroom volunteer at KLCC in 2000. After reporting for the Northwest News Network and KAZU, Rachael returned to KLCC in 2007 as Morning Edition host and a general assignment reporter covering politics, the environment, education, and the arts. She was hired as KLCC News Director in 2018. Rachael departed KLCC in June, 2022.
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