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Dickinson College Students Sit In for New Sexual Assault Policies « Student Activism

Dickinson College Students Sit In for New Sexual Assault Policies « Student Activism

Dickinson College Students Sit In for New Sexual Assault Policies

Two days ago, a group of more than two hundred students at Pennsylvania’s Dickinson College marched on the school’s administration building to protest campus policies on sexual assault.

They’re still there.

The Dickinson activists — a significant fraction of the total student population of the 2400-person campus — are demanding specific changes to the college’s policies, and they’ve already won several concessions. (The college