Safety

A memorial, designed after the Sandy Hook shooting, honors teachers from pre-K through 12th grade. Soon, it will add names from higher education.

USA Swimming recently banned a former Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexual assault. A petition signed by 130,000 people urges the National Collegiate Athletic Association to adopt a similar stance.

Saying victims are to blame, at least in part, for their sexual assaults is a legal tactic used by many colleges accused of negligence.

In the wake of the Orlando shootings, Lauron Kehrer, a white queer woman scholar, describes how dancing can be a way to shed the stress that accumulates from moving through a world that seems far from safe.

For a community college in Orlando, the losses are beyond what many can imagine.

Ranking colleges based on reported number of rapes, as The Washington Post has done, may attract much publicity, but researchers and advocates say doing so is misguided.

Colleges in the area try to reassure students. Press reports say two victims were students. Nationwide, attack on gay club prompts vigils, discussion and sadness.

The Stanford University sexual assault case raises crucial issues about gender, class and race, writes Marybeth Gasman.