Cougars and Wolves are falling from the sky.

It's raining much harder than just cats and dogs. It is hard to even walk outside without getting soaked. Maintenance was trying to put the window art back up, but it appears to all be too long. Fractions of inches need to be removed. From plexiglass. No wonder he has been putting this off since I started working here.

Tomorrow is Jeans for Justice Day, a day to wear your blue jeans in international remembrance of a 1999 decision in Italian High Court. The court overturned a rape conviction because the victim was wearing jeans at the time of the attack.

The court’s ruling included, “It is common knowledge … that jeans cannot even be partly removed without the effective help of the person wearing them … and it is impossible if the victim is struggling with all her might.”

UCSB Rape Prevention Education Program Director Carol Mosely said the case was a symptom of a larger problem.

“A lot of people reacted to it at the time, and people are still bringing it back up because it’s such a good symbol of the problem that we have in the world of blaming victims and not believing victims of sexual assault,” Mosely said. “The case is an extreme example, but that type of thinking goes on all the time, everywhere in the world."

Our campus is handing out stickers and information about this event. Because no means no.