**Susan G. Komen restores funding to Planned Parenthood**

OHIO UNIVERSITY — After backlash and outcry from supporters, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation announced Friday that the organization has reversed its decision to halt funding to Planned Parenthood.

Last week, Komen adopted new funding criteria, which excluded Planned Parenthood from receiving future breast screening grants. Komen said it stopped funding Planned Parenthood because the organization was the subject of an investigation launched by a Florida congressman accusing the group of using public funds for abortions, according to a report by the Associated Press. Planned Parenthood has denied the accusations made in the Florida investigation.

“We are so glad that Komen has restored funding to Planned Parenthood for vital breast cancer screening and education serves,” Lisa Perks, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southeast Ohio, said in a statement. “This decision reinforces that women’s health care and breast cancer in particular is no place for politics, and we look forward to contenting and enhancing our relationship with Komen.”

—The Post
By Joshua Jamerson

**Brownback speaks to students about human trafficking**

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS — Gov. Sam Brownback shared why he thought human trafficking was an important issue to a crowd of more than 200 people at the event hosted by the Emily Taylor Women’s Resource Center.

“It’s important, it’s key, it’s happening in your world,” he said. “You need to do something about it.”

Brownback wanted to give the audience an idea of how trafficking affects the people in these countries. “It’s the worst you can imagine,” he said.

Brownback was an original co-sponsor of the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, a bill that sparked reform of trafficking laws. The act was renewed in 2008.

“We’re missing lots of things like victim service protection,” Dean said. “Many victims suffer STDs or are pregnant when they come in.”

—The University Daily Kansan
By Vikaas Shanker

**USenate revising policy for student, faculty sexual relationships**

COLUMBIA COLLEGE — The University Senate is considering passing a policy that would discourage consensual relationships between students and their instructors.

The consensual relationship policy — which was discussed during the USenate’s first meeting of the semester on Friday — is one of several issues the body is likely to tackle in 2012.

A consensual relationship policy resolution will probably be introduced to the Senate during the March plenary. The resolution, which is being worked on by Associate Provost for Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Susan Rieger and the Commission on the Status of Women, would discourage romantic or sexual relationships between academic officers and students they supervise.

It would also establish disciplinary measures for faculty members who do not remove themselves from positions of authority over students with whom they have a romantic or sexual relationship.

—Columbia Spectator
By Margaret Mattes