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The LA Times covered commencement, for obvious reasons--

Supporters of the protest also said they wanted to express their anger toward Turner’s sentence.

“I’ve witnessed us as a society not properly raising men to treat women properly,” said senior Mattias Johansson. “This isn’t about drinking on campus. This isn’t about campus promiscuity… It’s about the atmosphere of mistreatment of women on our campus, and it’s a statement for me against this idea that rape isn’t a crime worth talking about.”

Stanford’s graduating student body president, John-Lancaster Finley, said it was important to “stand in solidarity with survivors of sexual violence at Stanford. We want people to know that this happens here.”

Added outgoing student body vice president Brandon Hill: “We need a broader conversation about what does masculinity mean. What is toxic masculinity? What is informing rape culture and people to take part in rape? What is it that fathers are teaching their sons?”

Most graduating students did not participate in the protest, and a few were annoyed by its appearance at commencement.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me...story.html

Washington Post, too.

Jackson Beard, an international relations major from Chicago, interacts regularly with the Stanford administration in her capacity as president of the Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU). On May 12, shortly after being elected president on a campaign platform that emphasized addressing the issue of sexual violence, Beard emailed a top Stanford official to discuss ideas for making improvements.

She said she received a response that appeared dismissive and then never heard back on her request to set up a meeting.

“It was very disheartening,” she said. “I’ve been very proud of how many students in our community feel the urgency and importance of this issue. It remains unclear to me at this point whether that same sense of urgency is shared by the higher levels of the administration.” 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/edu...story.html

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The LA Times covered commencement, for obvious reasons--

Supporters of the protest also said they wanted to express their anger toward Turner’s sentence.

“I’ve witnessed us as a society not properly raising men to treat women properly,” said senior Mattias Johansson. “This isn’t about drinking on campus. This isn’t about campus promiscuity… It’s about the atmosphere of mistreatment of women on our campus, and it’s a statement for me against this idea that rape isn’t a crime worth talking about.”

Stanford’s graduating student body president, John-Lancaster Finley, said it was important to “stand in solidarity with survivors of sexual violence at Stanford. We want people to know that this happens here.”

Added outgoing student body vice president Brandon Hill: “We need a broader conversation about what does masculinity mean. What is toxic masculinity? What is informing rape culture and people to take part in rape? What is it that fathers are teaching their sons?”

Most graduating students did not participate in the protest, and a few were annoyed by its appearance at commencement.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me...story.html

Washington Post, too.

Jackson Beard, an international relations major from Chicago, interacts regularly with the Stanford administration in her capacity as president of the Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU). On May 12, shortly after being elected president on a campaign platform that emphasized addressing the issue of sexual violence, Beard emailed a top Stanford official to discuss ideas for making improvements.

She said she received a response that appeared dismissive and then never heard back on her request to set up a meeting.

“It was very disheartening,” she said. “I’ve been very proud of how many students in our community feel the urgency and importance of this issue. It remains unclear to me at this point whether that same sense of urgency is shared by the higher levels of the administration.” 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/edu...story.html