Editing Stanford University (section)

=== Safety ===
Stanford's Department of Public Safety is responsible for law enforcement and safety on the main campus. Its deputy sheriffs are [[peace officers]] by arrangement with the [[Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office]].<ref name="police-employment">{{cite web |title=Employment Opportunities |url=http://www.stanford.edu/group/SUDPS/employment.shtml |website=Stanford University Department of Public Safety |access-date=June 11, 2016}}</ref> The department is also responsible for publishing an annual crime report covering the previous three years as required by the [[Clery Act]].<ref name="clery">{{cite web |title=Safety & Security Results: Crime Statistics |url=https://web.stanford.edu/group/SUDPS/safety-report/stats-toc.shtml |website=Stanford University Department of Public Safety |access-date=June 11, 2016 |archive-date=June 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611051350/http://web.stanford.edu/group/SUDPS/safety-report/stats-toc.shtml |url-status=dead}}</ref> Fire protection has been provided by contract with the Palo Alto Fire Department since 1976.<ref name="fire-dispute">{{cite news |last1=Sheyner |first1=Gennady |title=Palo Alto, Stanford clash over fire services |url=http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2015/10/22/palo-alto-stanford-clash-over-fire-services |access-date=June 11, 2016 |publisher=Palo Alto Online |date=October 22, 2015}}</ref> Murder is rare on the campus, although a few cases have been notorious, including the 1974 murder of [[Arlis Perry]] in Stanford Memorial Church, which was not solved until 2018.<ref name="PAO">{{Cite web |url=https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2018/06/28/suspect-in-grisly-stanford-memorial-church-murder-kills-self |title=Sheriff: Grisly 1974 Stanford murder solved |author=Staff |date=June 29, 2018 |website=PaloAltoOnline.com |access-date=November 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180913153323/https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2018/06/28/suspect-in-grisly-stanford-memorial-church-murder-kills-self |archive-date=September 13, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> Also infamous was [[Theodore Streleski]]'s murder of his faculty advisor in 1978.<ref name="daily-murder">{{cite news |last1=Xu |first1=Victor |title=A history of murder at Stanford |url=http://www.stanforddaily.com/2014/10/10/a-history-of-murder-at-stanford/ |access-date=June 12, 2016 |work=Stanford Daily |date=October 10, 2014}}</ref>

==== Campus sexual misconduct ====
In 2014, Stanford was the tenth highest in the nation in "total of reports of rape" on their main campus, with 26 reports of rape.<ref name=":wsj2016" >{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/06/07/these-colleges-have-the-most-reports-of-rape/ |title=These colleges have the most reports of rape |first=Nick |last=Anderson |date=June 7, 2016 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> In Stanford's 2015 Campus Climate Survey, 4.7 percent of female undergraduates reported experiencing sexual assault as defined by the university, and 32.9 percent reported experiencing sexual misconduct.<ref name=":4">{{Cite news |url=http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2015/10/01/one-third-of-stanford-women-experience-sexual-misconduct-survey-finds |title=One-third of Stanford women experience sexual misconduct, survey finds |last=Kadvany |first=Elena |date=October 1, 2015 |work=Palo Alto Online |access-date=June 15, 2016}}</ref> According to the survey, 85% of perpetrators of misconduct were Stanford students and 80% were men.<ref name=":4" /> Perpetrators of sexual misconduct were frequently aided by alcohol or drugs, according to the survey: "Nearly three-fourths of the students whose responses were categorized as sexual assault indicated that the act was accomplished by a person or persons taking advantage of them when they were drunk or high, according to the survey. Close to 70 percent of students who reported an experience of sexual misconduct involving nonconsensual penetration and/or oral sex indicated the same."<ref name=":4" />

Associated Students of Stanford and student and alumni activists with the anti-rape group Stand with Leah criticized the survey methodology for downgrading incidents involving alcohol if students did not check two separate boxes indicating they were both intoxicated and incapacity while sexually assaulted.<ref name=":4" /> Reporting on the Brock Turner rape case, a reporter from ''[[The Washington Post]]'' analyzed campus rape reports submitted by universities to the U.S. Department of Education, and found that Stanford was one of the top ten universities in campus rapes in 2014, with 26 reported that year, but when analyzed by rapes per 1000 students, Stanford was not among the top ten.<ref name=":wsj2016" />

==== ''People v. Turner'' ====
{{Main|People v. Turner}}

On the night of January 17–18, 2015, 22-year-old [[Chanel Miller]], who was visiting the campus to attend a party at the fraternity [[Kappa Alpha Order]], was sexually assaulted by Brock Turner, a nineteen-year-old freshman student-athlete from Ohio. Two Stanford graduate students witnessed the attack and intervened; when Turner attempted to flee the two held him down on the ground until police arrived.<ref name=NYToutrage>Liam Stack for ''The New York Times''. June 6, 2016 [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/07/us/outrage-in-stanford-rape-case-over-dueling-statements-of-victim-and-attackers-father.html Light Sentence for Brock Turner in Stanford Rape Case Draws Outrage]</ref> Stanford immediately referred the case to prosecutors and offered Miller counseling, and within two weeks had barred Turner from campus after conducting an investigation.<ref>Ashley Fantz for CNN June 7, 2016 [http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/06/us/sexual-assault-brock-turner-stanford/ Outrage over 6-month sentence for Brock Turner in Stanford rape case]</ref> Turner was convicted on three felony charges in March 2016 and in June 2016 he received a jail sentence of six months and was declared a sex offender, requiring him to register as such for the rest of his life; prosecutors had sought a six-year prison sentence out of the maximum 14 years that was possible.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_29970782/palo-alto-former-stanford-swimmer-gets-6-months| title=Stanford sex assault: Brock Turner gets 6 months in jail| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603152038/https://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_29970782/palo-alto-former-stanford-swimmer-gets-6-months| archive-date=2016-06-03 | newspaper=Mercurynews.com| accessdate=2023-10-18}}</ref> The case and the relatively lenient sentence drew nationwide attention.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/06/06/stanford-sexual-assault-victim-statement-viral/ |title=Stanford Sex Assault Victim's Story Draws Worldwide Reaction |last=Fehely |first=Devin |date=June 6, 2016 |work=CBS SF Bay Area |access-date=June 10, 2016}}</ref> Two years later, the judge in the case, Stanford graduate [[Aaron Persky]], was recalled by the voters.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/06/us/judge-aaron-persky-recall-results-brock-turner/index.html |title=Voters oust judge who gave Brock Turner 6 months for sex assault |date=June 6, 2018 |work=CNN |access-date=September 2, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Kimmel |first1=Michael |title=Guyland. The perilous world where boys become men. |date=2018 |publisher=HarperCollins |location=New York |isbn=9780062885739 |pages=1–2}}</ref>

==== Joe Lonsdale ====
{{see also|Joe Lonsdale#Sexual assault allegations}}
In February 2015, Elise Clougherty filed a sexual assault and harassment lawsuit against venture capitalist [[Joe Lonsdale]].<ref name=Benner>Katie Benner for Bloomberg News. February 2, 2015 [https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-02-02/clougherty-s-sexual-assault-suit-against-formation-8-s-lonsdale Benner on Tech: Parsing a Sexual Assault Suit]</ref><ref name=Bazelon1>Emily Bazelon for ''The New York Times''. February 11, 2015 [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/the-stanford-undergraduate-and-the-mentor.html The Stanford Undergraduate and the Mentor]</ref> Lonsdale and Clougherty entered into a relationship in the spring of 2012 when she was a junior and he was her mentor in a Stanford entrepreneurship course.<ref name=Bazelon1 /> By the spring of 2013 Clougherty had broken off the relationship and filed charges at Stanford that Lonsdale had broken the Stanford policy against consensual relationships between students and faculty and that he had sexually assaulted and harassed her, which resulted in Lonsdale being banned from Stanford for 10 years.<ref name=Bazelon1 /> Lonsdale challenged Stanford's finding that he had sexually assaulted and harassed her and Stanford rescinded that finding and the campus ban in the fall of 2015.<ref>Emily Bazelon for ''The New York Times''. November 4, 2015 [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/04/magazine/the-lessons-of-stanfords-sex-assault-case-reversal.html The Lessons of Stanford's Sex-Assault-Case Reversal]</ref> Clougherty withdrew her suit that fall as well.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-privateequity-lonsdale-lawsuit-idUSKCN0SR23Q20151102?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews |title=Woman drops sex assault case against U.S. venture capitalist |newspaper=Reuters |date=November 2, 2015 |last1=McBride |first1=Dan Levine}}</ref>