Dr. Blackstone quoted in The Guardian article on Joe Biden

UMaine Alert

Posted: April 19, 2024 - 1:32 PM

At approximately 9:24 a.m. on Thursday, April 19, a University of Maine graduate student was struck by a university vehicle on Long Road at the University of Maine campus in Orono. The student reports that they are at a local hospital with minor injuries.

Emergency services, including the Orono Fire Department, University Volunteer Ambulance Corps, University of Maine Police Department, Orono Police Department and Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene.

The university vehicle involved in the incident was a Chevrolet Express van. It was being operated by a university employee.

Counseling services and support are available for students, faculty or staff who may have been affected. The Counseling Center can be reached at 207-581-1392 and the Dean of Students Office can be reached at 207-581-1406.

The scene has been cleared and Long Road is now accessible. An investigation is being conducted by the University of Maine Police Department with assistance from the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office Crash Reconstruction Unit. Any witnesses to the incident are encouraged to contact Lt. Noel Santiago at noel.santiago@maine.edu.

April 29, 2019 Faculty News, News

Joe Biden’s non-apology to Anita Hill casts long shadow over 2020 run

Biden’s bid for president has invited renewed questions over his handling of Hill’s 1991 testimony – and his failure to say sorry

Tom McCarthy

Sat 27 Apr 2019 01.00 EDTLast modified on Sat 27 Apr 2019 01.20 EDT

Biden, the committee chair, points angrily at Clarence Thomas during the 1991 hearing.
Biden on Friday did say he was sorry – but not for anything he had done. Photograph: Greg Gibson/AP

After Joe Biden failed once more on Friday to apologize to Anita Hillfor his handling of a 1991 Senate hearing at which she testified about being sexually harassed by supreme court nominee Clarence Thomas, questions surged anew…

… The moment was a generational touchstone, said Amy Blackstone, a sociology professor at the University of Maine who conducted a long-running study of views on sexual harassment that surveyed people in their early 20s at the time of the hearings.

“It’s really interesting how many of them noted, without being prompted by me at all, the Thomas hearings as sort of this turning point for them in their consciousness about workplace sexual harassment,” said Blackstone.

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