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...MenSpeakUp is a group with big plans. At the site’s Cambridge launch event in April, Hugo Van Vuuren ’07, a leader of MenSpeakUp efforts, suggested that the campaign has set its sights on the world beyond Harvard. “Because if I am the 14-year-old guy in Nebraska, I will see that these cool guys at Harvard care about this, so if I care about this, it won’t make me any less cool,” he told his audience...
...bashing may indicate the group’s sincere hopes of effecting positive change, but such a vision also embodies the elitist idealism and lackluster social theory that characterizes the campaign. In this affair, the old adage rings true: The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Van Vuuren and his colleagues have fashioned themselves as warriors of gender equality while failing to consider what they’re promoting—essentially, a program that misrepresents the reality of modern sexual violence and reduces women to passive victims...
...site—unveiled at a showcase yesterday—includes blogs, video, and resources for those affected by sexual harassment. “We wanted to give something that is for gender equality and for change and for something positive,” said Hugo Van Vuuren ’07, who helped launch the site. “This is an issue that affects everyone, and unfortunately Harvard is no exception.” The site’s sponsors said they hoped focusing their message on men would be effective at preventing sexual harassment by changing what...
...Raúl A. Carrillo ’10, a Crimson editorial writer, is a social studies concentrator in Lowell House and president of the Latino Men’s Collective. Hugo Van Vuuren ’07 was an economics concentrator who lived in Quincy House and is the director of the Idea Translation Lab at Harvard. Gordon Braxton ’08 (HGSE) is the prevention specialist at the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response. All are founding members and leaders of MenSpeakUp...
...This was one of the first light focused microbial fuel cells tested in Africa,” said W. Hugo Van Vuuren ’07, one of the cofounders of Lebone who now works with the Idea Translation...