About 10 percent of female University of Oregon students have been raped according to survey

 

A survey carried out in the University of Oregon showed that 10 percent of the female students surveyed have been raped while attending the school.

According to university researchers, 35 percent of students - and 14 percent of men - had at least one forcible sexual encounter and about 90 percent of students assaulted kept quiet about the violence.

The White House has declared sex crimes to be "epidemic" on U.S. college campuses, with one in five students falling victim to sex assault while still attending school.

The U.S. Department of Education in May released a list of 55 colleges under investigation to determine whether their handling of sex assaults and harassment violated federal laws.

University of Oregon was not on that list but Jennifer Freyd, a psychology professor who led the study, and other school officials are part of a White House effort to develop a nationwide survey that can be conducted on campuses nationwide, she said.

"If you've got a survey that lets you make meaningful comparisons between colleges, then colleges will have a meaningful incentive to reduce the violence that's being measured," Freyd said.

The late-summer Web-based survey included 982 students. Freyd said she was hesitant to draw broader conclusions about the campus from her findings because, for example, her respondents were younger, whiter, and more female than the general school population.

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PHOTOS: Weird fish with human teeth caught in Russia!

Russian fisherman Aleks Korobov, caught one of the worlds weirdest animals.....a fish with human set of teeth!




FISHERMAN Aleks Korobov

Aleks has contacted the Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography for their expert opinion.




Expert Gennady Dvorykankin from the Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography  said: "We had to do an autopsy and carry out a series of examinations to determine the species and an explanation for the teeth.

"We are convinced it is a member of the Piranha family, and that it is a herbivore piranha, not one of the meat eating ones you see in films.

"It is very unlikely that it made its way from its natural tropical waters to our Arctic and then into the river so we can only assume it was dumped by an owner of exotic fish," he added.

United States Secret Service head Julia Pierson resigns following several security breaches involving the White House

 

Julia Pierson, the first female director of the Secret Service, resigned her post Wednesday after a fence jumper gained access to the White House Sep. 19th and a subsequent congressional inquiry uncovered other security lapses.

Julia Pierson also apologised and described the mistakes as major security failures on multiple fronts.

News of Pierson's resignation came as new information about the fence jumper as well as other security lapses came to light :
Omar Gonzalez, 42, pleaded not guilty to federal and D.C. charges in federal court in Washington on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the inquiry into how the Army veteran launched over the fence and was able to sprint up to the front door, burst into the White House and run into the ornate East Room continues.

Neither President Obama nor the first family were at home at the time of the incident.

But a Secret Service source tells CNN there is an elaborate closed circuit video system and that video is being dissected to establish new protocols.

When Gonzalez burst through the White House door, he pushed a female officer to the side.
But the source said, ""Gender was not a factor, she got one door secured but was pushed over while trying to get second door shut."

An alarm box had been turned down near the front door, for instance, after complaints by the White House usher's office that it was too loud.

A canine unit was not released to chase Gonzalez, said the source, because there were "too many friendlies around."

Man with 'horns' and '666' tattoo on his face found guilty of first-degree murder

34-year-old Caius Veiovis, a self-proclaimed vampire and Satanist has been found guilty of kidnapping, murdering and dismembering three men in Pittsfield, Mass.

The jury deliberated for 37 hours in six days before delivering the verdict last week. And as jurors left the courtroom, he shouted: “I’ll see you all in hell, remember that, every f—— one of you. I’ll see you all in hell.”

He was sentenced to three consecutive terms of life in prison

In 2011, the dismembered bodies of David Glasser, 44, Edward Frampton, 58, and Robert Chadwell, 47, were found buried outside of Pittsfield 10 days after they went missing.
According to prosecutors, Veiovis helped two other men — 37-year-old Adam Lee Hall and 47-year-old David Chalue — kidnap and shoot the victims to death.
Glasser was set to testify against Hall, a 'Hells Angels' member, in an assault case. Prosecutors said the two other men were murdered to eliminate witnesses to Glasser’s killing.

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5 family members die mysteriously in their home

Investigators are trying to determine how five family members died in a Utah home over the weekend.
There were no signs of trauma, no clues of any violence or foul play and no indication of carbon monoxide.

Officials identified the deceased relatives as father Benjamin Strack, 37; mother Kristi Strack, 36; son Benson Strack,14; daughter Emery Strack, 12; and son Zion Strack, 11.
Another son of the couple found the bodies in an apartment room on Saturday night, the Springville Department of Public Safety said.

"The Medical Examiner has indicated that the next step is to continue the investigation through analysis of blood samples to determine what may have caused the deaths."