I have known Abby Roth since August of 2019. She was one of three freshmen on the volleyball team who was a Thatcher and at Albee. I have spent countless hours with her at House events, in the occasional business class and, most commonly, trapped in volleyball van rides. If I have learned anything over these near four years of friendship with her, Abby Roth is kind, courageous, dedicated and would be one of the best Student Body Presidents this school has ever, and will ever, have.
Read MoreLess than a year ago, I wrote a piece for the Empire State Tribune about sexual assault awareness month that was published at the very beginning of the pandemic that would change our lives. One year later, I want to reexamine what has changed and how the pandemic has affected the handling of sexual assault and harassment cases–first, on a national level.
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