I have been on the phone with several organizations who are very interested in how you’re being treated by BYU. For example, the US Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights, is interested in the experiences of students who are protected by the Civil Rights Act which outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex,…… Continue reading Dear BYU Students
Category: hornets
before the HCO and Title IX were separated
Back before the HCO and Title IX were separated, I was a TA for the Computer Science dept. I had a student say sexually inappropriate things to me on 2 separate occasions and I brought it up during a TA meeting, which a few professors were in. They encouraged me to report it to Title…… Continue reading before the HCO and Title IX were separated
Dear BYU (part two)
In part one, I mentioned that I had researched the websites of several other private religious or Utah-based universities to see if this BYU resource, the “Survivor Advocate,” was replicated at other universities. Here is what I found on the BYU.edu Title IX page, where I discovered that the advocate link in the screenshot does…… Continue reading Dear BYU (part two)
Dear BYU (part one)
I’ve been involved with several students who have been reported to the Honor Code Office. Often, I help with advice or support, but sometimes, I accompany students to the HCO. The last time I was there, a student reported an event that occurred without their consent and the HCO counselor stopped the meeting and said…… Continue reading Dear BYU (part one)
Dear President Nelson
I want to believe you don’t know what DezNat is, despite the many news outlets that have reported on them. Here is an article from the Salt Lake Tribune: “In the past two weeks my life has been threatened over and over and over and over,” said one recipient of #DezNat wrath, Billy D, a former…… Continue reading Dear President Nelson
Dear Reader
I am writing this here to make sure I keep my facts straight. I’ve been involved in a situation with a handful LGBTQ+ student at Brigham Young University who needed some support. First, BG, had been stalked by a guy he’d briefly met on a dating app. The stalking started with online harassment and quickly…… Continue reading Dear Reader