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Bellingham Police release sketch of September voyeurism suspect
By The Front and Cody Clark | September 27
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Western's sexual assault prevention efforts lacking, administrators agree
By The Front , Haley Ausbun , Asia Fields and Rebekah Way | August 8What the meetings have mostly focused on: • Haven (required by Clery Act; Office of Civil Rights recommended making mandatory) • Sexual assault campus climate survey (required by 2015 state legislation) • Memorandum of understanding with law enforcement (required by 2015 state legislation) • Compliance with the federal investigation into Western • Revising policy (to be compliant with federal guidelines)
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Residents at Woodway Assisted Living protest 'hellhole' living conditions
By The Front and Oliver Hamlin | July 24Philip Emerson, general counsel for Ageia Health Services, said, "Some of those complaints are valid and being addressed." // Photo courtesy of Lorraine Howard
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Sexual assault survivors say Western, community should do more
By The Front , Asia Fields and Melissa McCarthy | June 6Madison, a Western student and survivor. // Photo by Taylor Nichols
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Security expert: Western's active shooter response, safety upgrade plans uninformed
By The Front and Sarah Porter | March 7Students, faculty and experts on campus security are questioning Western’s preparedness for an active shooter.
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Former Huxley student frustrated with how Western handled sexual harassment case
By The Front and Asia Fields | March 7By Asia FieldsContent warning: sexual harassmentStirling Scott, the student who reported Huxley associate professor Paul Stangl for sexual harassment, did everything Western tells students to do in these situations. She went to the Equal Opportunity Office (twice) to report him and provide her story.However, the first investigation found that Stangl’s behavior was inappropriate but not severe enough to be considered sexual harassment, according to the EOO’s final report. And even after a second investigation resulted in a finding of sexual harassment, according to EOO documents, Stangl is still teaching at Western.
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Western classrooms hard to secure in case of active shooter, the Front finds
By The Front and Sarah Porter | February 28Western Front staff found that the majority of buildings have classrooms with doors that swing outward, making them difficult to barricade, and doors that do not lock from the inside.
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Records show expulsion rare for sexual misconduct perpetrators
By The Front , Monique Merrill , Raelynn Sheridan , Dante Koplowitz-Fleming and Lexi Foldenauer | December 5Civil rights attorney Larry Hildes, and legal assistant Karen Weil, represented a student survivor in a case from 2015.
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Dark Days
By The Front | July 11Every day, he thought about death. But the image of his own — always on his mind — terrified him. More than death, senior Michael Ajeto feared himself.
