Liz Seccuro

Event planner and victim's rights activist

What Huguely and his team are doing is trying to allow a frisson of reasonable doubt to creep into the mind of just one sympathetic and uninformed juror in order to set him free. It's insidious.

Liz Seccuro

Event planner and victim's rights activist

The recent killing of lacrosse player Yeardley Love is a tragic chapter for my alma mater. Issues of dating violence, murder, sexual assault and stalking have long haunted the University of Virginia.

Randy Susan Meyers

Author, 'The Murderer's Daughters,' "The Comfort of Lies,' "What To Do Before Your Book Launch"

The article about the homicide of Yeardley Love could just as easily have asked, "Why are people surprised?"

Michael Kimmel

Author, Manhood in America and Guyland

From the outside, George Huguely had it all. Such guys are the epitome of the "culture of entitlement." They think they can do anything they want and get away with it, and usually they're right.

Marjorie Gilberg

Executive Director, Break the Cycle

Last month, Break the Cycle released its third annual State Law Report Cards, a survey of the nation's teen dating violence civil protection laws. And for the third year in a row, Virginia received a failing grade.

Anushay Hossain

Author, AnushaysPoint.com

One of the advantages academic institutions have is that they can always take a situation and turn it into an educational opportunity. Right now, UVA has a chance to teach us all about intimate partner violence.

Becky Lee

Founder and Executive Director of Becky's Fund

Schools cannot rely on reactionary approaches to dating abuse, they need to take proactive measures before a tragedy occurs.

Andrew Katz

"Not again." That was my initial reaction when I saw the first headline. It's been a deadly year for college students, and my mind raced through them faster than I could morbidly count.