Assault at BYU, Robot Composing Music, Child Favoritism

Results of Sexual Assault and Campus Climate Survey Guest:  Lindsay Orchowski, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Staff Psychologist, Rhode Island Hospital About a year ago, press investigations revealed that BYU students who had reported a sexual assault to campus authorities had their cases referred to BYU’s Honor Code office to investigate whether the victim had been doing anything that violates the honor code at the time of the assault. Extramarital sexual activity and alcohol and drug use are prohibited by BYU’s honor code. BYU’s president formed an advisory council to look at the issue. That council recommended sexual assault victims be given amnesty from honor code violations related to the reported incident. BYU implemented that policy in June. The advisory council also recommended BYU conduct a campus climate survey in order to gather research regarding perceptions and incidents of sexual assault. That survey is now finished and the results show there’s quite a bit of room for improvement. Read the results of BYU’s Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault here. Recognizing Hate Speech Online Guest: Matt Teichman, PhD, Full-time Lecturer, Division of Humanities, University of Chicago In the US, social media websites like Facebook and Twitter are not legally required to censor hate speech. But in Europe, they are. And all around the world, these companies face pressure from their users to police the ugliness of the internet. The problem is where to draw the line between someone spewing hate and someone exercising their right to speak freely.  Earlier this year, ProPublica published some internal documents Facebook uses to train content reviewers about what qualifies as hate speech and what doesn’t. The documents reveal just how tricky it is to police hate speech.  Tying Education to Trade to Keep Kids in School Todd West, Steering Committee Member of the Eastern Maine Skippers Program, Principal of Bucksport Middle School, Maine Did your