Students were fed up with what they saw as a culture of sexual harassment.

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For years, the Pentagon mishandled sexual assault cases involving kids living on military bases, until an Associated Press investigation jolted lawmakers into action. AP reporter Justin Pritchard tells the story of an Army officer in the Judge Advocate General Corps who was an important inside source. He was haunted by what he saw at Fort Hood in Texas and at bases overseas.
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** Walking out to protest rape culture
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A moving part of this week’s podcast focuses on California’s Berkeley High School, where students were fed up with what they saw as a culture of sexual harassment and assault among their peers. After years of allegedly mishandled allegations, they wanted action from adults in the administration – and they got it.

In February 2020, right before schools went online because of the pandemic, Berkeley students staged a walkout (seen above) and spoke up at a school board meeting after word got out that a student was suing the school for how it handled her report of sexual assault.

“Just because Berkeley can hide behind the idea that it’s a progressive bubble doesn’t mean that Berkeley’s schools can avoid teaching us how to deal with or prevent something we are all aware happens,” one student told the board.

The students’ actions prompted change: By December, administrators announced that they had hired a full-time Title IX coordinator and a full-time Title IX investigator. The district has also set up a committee, made up of mostly students, to lead some of the changes. They’ll help pick a facilitator to design consent education and determine the next steps the school needs to take after that. “It was the student leadership a year ago that led us to make some very meaningful additional investments,” said Superintendent Brent Stephens. It’s too soon to tell whether the shift is permanent, but no matter what, future students will have a blueprint to make change.

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** In the Field: Reporting on the housing crisis in Akron, Ohio
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The United States is in the midst of a crushing housing crisis – a massive lack of affordable housing, evictions and foreclosures are realities across the country. Akron, Ohio, is a Rust Belt city with a storied manufacturing past. In the past 20 years, rents have risen 50% while wages have remained stagnant.

Over the past year, Reveal helped organize a collaboration among Ohio news outlets to report on housing in Akron. The Home in Akron collaboration features in-depth stories from the Akron Beacon Journal, The Devil Strip, WEWS News 5, WKSU Radio and Your Voice Ohio. Together, these stories help residents understand housing issues and their underlying reasons, as well as shed light on how the pandemic is changing neighborhoods and the living situations of the city’s residents.

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