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Saturday, March 7, 2015
Denton Record-Chronicle
Outrage spreads over
theft of ancient items
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BAGHDAD — Islamic State
extremists trucked away statues
as they damaged the irreplace-
able remains of an ancient As-
syrian capital, a local resident
and a top UN official told The
Associated Press on Friday.
Nirnrud, a nearly 3,000-
year-old city in present-day Iraq,
included monumental statues of
winged bulls, bearded horsemen
and other winged figures, all
symbols of an ancient Mesopo-
tamian empire in the cradle of
Western civilization.
The discovery that extremists
removed some statues before
using heavy equipment to de-
stroy much of the site Thursday
was cold comfort as outrage
spread over the extremists’ latest
effort to erase history.
United Nations Secretary-
General Ban Ki-Moon considers
the destruction a war crime, his
spokesman said in a statement.
Iraq’s most revered Shiite
cleric, the Grand Ayatollah Ali
al-Sistani, said in his Friday ser-
mon that the extremists are sav-
aging Iraq, “not only in the pre-
sent but also to its history and
ancient civilizations.”
“I’m shocked and speechless,”
said Zeid Abdullah, who lives in
nearby Mosul and studied at the
city’s Fine Arts Institute until the
extremists shut that down. “On-
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Some statues were “put on
big trucks, and we don’t know
where they are, possibly for illicit
trafficking,” UNESCO Director
General Irina Bokova said.
UN officials have seen imag-
es of destroyed Assyrian sym-
bols including statues with the
head of a man, the torso of a lion
and wings of an eagle. These
symbols were referred to in the
Bible and other sacred texts, she
said.
barbaric mind can act this way
and destroy an art masterpiece
that is thousands of years old.”
A farmer from a nearby vil-
lage told the AP on Friday that
militants began carrying tablets
and artifacts away from the site
two days before the attack,
which began Thursday after-
noon. The militants told the vil-
lagers that the artifacts are idols
forbidden by Islam and must be
destroyed, the farmer said,
speaking anonymously for fear
of reprisals.
But the group also is known
to have sold off looted antiqui-
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lege officials and other experts to
get their input before deciding
what changes to make.
“I knew it was a delicate sub-
ject,” said Ackerman, who has a
son in college and a daughter
heading there soon. “Years ago,
we didn’t talk about it, but now,
by keeping the subject alive,
people are becoming more
aware.”
at more than 2,000 colleges and
universities.
“We need to be cautious
about things that sound right
but actually create a chilling en-
vironment that might deter a
victim from coming forward,”
Kruger said. He noted that
many victims of campus sexual
assaults knew their assailants
beforehand, and might want to
avoid a police investigation even
if they sought support from
school officials.
Among those opposing the
mandatory-reporting proposal
in New Jersey was Patricia Tef-
fenhart, executive director of the
New Jersey Coalition Against
Sexual Assault.
“Mandatory reporting disre-
gards the traumatic experience
of survivors — whose bodies be-
neering bill passed in North
Carolina in 2013 — would let ac-
cused students be represented
by a lawyer during campus judi-
cial hearings.
NASPA, the association re-
presenting student affairs ad-
ministrators, has criticized these
measures, saying they would
give an unfair advantage to the
accused students.
The Foundation for Indivi-
dual Rights in Education, which
advocates for free speech and
student rights on campus, is-
sued a vehement rebuttal of
NASPA and praised the pro-
posed bills.
“Assistance from an attorney
helps accused students better
navigate these increasingly un-
fair and dangerously imbal-
anced campus proceedings —
‘kangaroo courts’ that have
prompted sharp, continuing
criticism,” the foundation said.
The rights of accused stu-
dents are addressed in a bill
pending in Congress that seeks
more accountability from col-
leges and universities in com-
bating sexual assault.
A provision in the bill would
require both the victim and ac-
cused student to be notified
within 24 hours of a school’s de-
cision to proceed with disciplin-
ary hearings on an alleged sexu-
al assault.
Under the proposed bill,
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ity and Safety Act, colleges and
universities would be required
to designate confidential advis-
ers to assist sexual assault vic-
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from coming forward.
The measure winning final
approval on Feb. 27 drops the
requirement that all alleged sex-
ual assaults be reported prompt-
ly to local law enforcement. In-
stead, it requires that the infor-
mation be reported to a campus
review committee, which would
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sire to hold campuses account-
able at the expense of survivors.”
New Jersey Sen. Peter
Barnes said the bill he is spon-
soring would not force the vic-
tim to cooperate with the police,
but it would require college offi-
cials to immediately notify law
enforcement of the allegations.
“A lot of the colleges seek to
discourage victims from going to
the police,” Barnes said. “That’s
out of concern for student, may-
be, but also out of concern for
the school’s reputation. They cir-
cle the wagons.”
Barnes said he was willing to
consider changes to the bill, per-
haps to provide an option for the
victim’s name to be withheld
when a report is made to police.
“But the colleges must re-
port,” he said. “I will not agree to
give the colleges discretion.”
The sponsor of Rhode Is-
land’s mandatory-reporting bill,
Rep. Mia Ackerman, has re-
sponded to critics and says she is
open to easing the reporting re-
quirement to ensure that vic-
tims’ concerns are addressed.
She has been meeting with col-
commission
would include a member of the
campus police or security force.
Other states are trying differ-
ent tactics.
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Last year, California became
the first state to adopt a so-called
“yes means yes” law — requiring
“an affirmative, conscious and
voluntary agreement” before
students engage in sexual activ-
ity. The law, which applies to all
colleges and universities that re-
ceive state money for financial
aid, means silence or a lack of re-
sistance can no longer be
deemed consent.
New York’s public university
system recently adopted a simi-
lar policy, and Gov. Andrew Cu-
omo is urging lawmakers to ap-
ply that policy to private colleges
and universities as well.
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Carolina, bills have been intro-
duced reflecting concern about
the rights of students accused of
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The legislation, which carries
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lations, mandates training stan-
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