...students during enrollment. The group decided to cover campus safety because college bound females are the most vulnerable to sexual assault. By covering the statistics, the researchers hope to prevent further attack. The following paragraphs include a comparison of university size to assault rates, provide specific examples of sexual assault, and inform about the precautions that many colleges choose to take and the precautions that are being taken in order to prevent further mishap. The first case that people were informed about happened in the early 2000’s and it wasn’t until...
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...Alcohol related sexual assault continues to reign as one of many issues plaguing colleges and universities, many of which have banned alcohol and overnight guests. Braford Richardson, a graduate of Claremont McKenna College with a B.A. in the fields of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and Jon A. Shields, the associate professor of government at Claremont McKenna College claim that in spite of previous efforts to reduce the rates of sexual assault they are actually increasing. Richardson and Shields believe that the current standard for handling sexual assault cases is inefficient and often more traumatic for the victim than the crime itself. Such cases are often handled by a selection of staff and students of the victim’s college who have...
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...sexual deviancy but sexual violence is typically considered to be sexual assault or rape. Sexual assault and rape have affected men and women alike. However, the vast majority of sexual violence victims are women with men being the perpetrators. Women on college campuses have a higher chance of becoming a victim of sexual assault then other women. Rape is defined as penetration or attempted penetration of sexual organs, but sexual assault is a much broader term. Sexual assault includes; completed or attempted penetration, abusive sexual contact without...
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...Introduction Georgetown University is a private, research-oriented school. Students travel from across the United States and the world in order to receive an education from this institution of higher education. The undergraduate program here serves 7,319 students. Seven percent of these students are international students, sixty one percent of students come here from the east coast, ten percent originate from the central part of the United States, and twenty percent of students come from the west coast. Sexual assault and interpersonal violence happens to people regardless of ethnicity, race, gender, and culture. With 59% of Georgetown students identifying as Caucasian, 13% as Asian, 8% as African, and 7% as Latino, sexual assault and interpersonal...
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...sexual assault such a big deal to college campuses now? Is it because there are students who are suddenly bringing it to the surface and really showing what the college administration is all about or is it because the government is only forcing them to do so? Sexual assault is a prominent issue on college campuses all over the country and it affects everyone that is involved. The government is putting a lot of pressure on college administrations to help prevent the chance that one of their students may be drugged and/or sexually assaulted. People are afraid that colleges and administrators are not doing their best to prevent sexual assault on students nor are they fully providing the support to the victims. In recent months, institutions of higher learning across the United States have been rocked by cases of rape and sexual assault. Federal, state and local officials have become involved, as schools struggle to revise their policies and procedures to prevent further incidents. New journalistic investigations, such as the July 12, 2014, story “Reporting Rape, and Wishing She Hadn’t,” by the New York Times, are calling into question the whole rationale for schools handling incidents outside normal legal channels (Mastropasqua, 2014). One of the main problems with sexual assault on college campuses is the lack of consequences to the perpetrator from the school. One-in-five women who attend college will be the victim of a sexual assault during her four years on campus (Van...
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...who know each other, it is a form of sexual violence that had been given little attention prior to the 1980’s. Recent studies indicate that one in four female college students will be the victim of acquaintance rape at some time during four years of college making it the fastest growing crime against females in college institutions. However, because there are widespread false impressions among all college students that acquaintance rape does not exist, is not “really rape” or is not a serious crime, many believe that it is not as traumatic to the victim as rape by someone unknown to them. These erroneous beliefs often leave the victims of acquaintance rape more devastated than the rape action itself. The purpose of this paper is to examine the facts surrounding female acquaintance rape on college campuses and the role that crisis intervention techniques play in the recovery from an experience that many experts describe as crippling. The Impact of Acquaintance Rape for Female College Students Every two minutes someone in the United States is raped, and the chance of the victim being a female college student is four times greater than that of any other demographic (Burnett et al., 2009). Research and documentation confirms that college campuses are hotbed environments for rape, and that sexual assault is a considerable problem. In fact, a study conducted by Fisher, Cullen and Turner (2000) found that 1 in every 36 female college students were the victim of an attempted...
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...issued at University Park in regards to a rape or forceful sex offense on campus. We slide open our phones, check to see the details of the warning, and then close our screens to continue on with our day. However, although we may seem unaffected by the warning, someone’s life has become completely altered and turned upside down. In his powerful and tear-jerking narrative, Missoula, Jon Krakauer becomes the voice behind those involved in these tragic and nauseating cases that we are quick to bypass as just timely warnings. As a journalist, Krakauer’s main mission is to give a voice to the voiceless and shed light on the injustices...
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...Sexual assault on college campuses is an epidemic that has affected hundreds and thousands of college students. The Hunting Ground is a documentary that discusses sexual assault on campus and how some college administrators inadequately handled the claims by their students. Sexual assault on campuses a problem that is affecting many women and men throughout the county and the world. In order to fully understand the social problem claim that is being made, one must examine the grounds, warrants, and conclusions of sexual assault on campuses. The beginning stage of the social problem process is to create the grounds of the claim....
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...Case Study 1-To Plan or Not To Plan Case 1 Incidents: • Protesters storming in the reception area near president office • Steve, the radical leader, slaps the phone and knocks it from the secretary hand without touching her when she tried to call the campus police • Pulling out of a squirt gun threaten to blow the Secretary head off if she moves • Secretary Prudence collapses in a sobbing heap • Protesters tried to break down the locked door of the President • Protestors barricade the President door with filing cabinets • Protesters are singing “We Will Overcome.” • President Chandler was taking a nap and slept through the entire 10-minute incident • Secretary Prudence did not return to work for a week • Secretary Prudence was prescribed by doctor heavy doses of tranquilizers To plan a protest or not to plan a protest that is the question! It all happened when the Members of Students for Fair Tuition (SFT) decided to have a protest at Gigantic State University (GSU). It is possible some laws were violated, in this case. Protesting are usually planned and not held inside of a building. Knowing your rights as a protestor would be a good thing to know before planning a protest! Some universities have a Free Speech Zone, and there is some restrictions on the time and place of the speeches given. Some universities have policies in place to limit the amount of interferences with classes and university business. (Center for campus free speech. (n.d.). Retrieved from...
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...Name Teacher English 101-Section 10 November 2014 Cause of Sexual Assault on College Campuses Over the last few years, the media has been filled with news broadcasts and reports of sexual assaults on college campuses. According to an article written by Wayne State University’s Dr. Antonia Abbey, “The term sexual assault is used . . . to describe the full range of forced sexual contacts . . .” This includes “. . . touching or kissing; verbally coerced intercourse; and physically forced [sexual behaviors]” (118). While these events are highly publicized when they occur, they happen much more frequently than realized. Young women are the primary victims of these attacks; reports regarding the assault of men are much less frequent. Many things contribute to why sexual assault and rape happen on college campuses. Alcohol consumption, personal psychological factors, and social influence all play a major role in why and how these events occur. The central factor in all rape and sexual assault cases is the victims are not adequately informed of the dangers beforehand. With that said, it is not the victim’s fault they were abused, but had they been proactive to remove themselves from the situation, things would have resulted differently. Alcohol plays a major role in sexual assault. Every campus has some aspect of Greek life—fraternities, sororities, and other elite social organizations. It can be noted these organizations are mostly known, and classified, according to the parties...
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...Module 2 Written Assignment Calendar reference: WA 2 Please answer the questions posed at the end of each case study in essay form. Each essay will be judged on your capacity to present strong, logical discussions that support your conclusions. Case study 1 Members of Students for Fair Tuition (SFT) decide to protest rising tuition costs at Gigantic State University (GSU) by taking over Dunfee Hall, the location of GSU president Dalton Chandler’s office. As they storm into the reception area of Chandler’s office suite, shouting “Down with fascist tuition increases,” Chandler’s faithful secretary, Prudence Pimply, picks up a phone to call the campus police. Steve Steel, radical leader of the SFT, slaps the phone knocking it from Prudence’s hand without ever touching her. He then pulls out an amazing lifelike squirt gun and threatens to blow Prudence’s head off if she so much as moves an inch toward the phone or the door. Prudence collapses in a sobbing heap on her desk. Unfortunately for their purposes, the students find the only door to Chandler’s third floor office locked from the inside. After a few feeble attempts to break it down, they contend with barricading his door with filing cabinets and singing “We Will Overcome” until the police arrive shortly thereafter. The total time elapsed from the moment the students entered the building until the police arrive is ten minutes. President Chandler was taking a nap and slept through the entire incident. Prudence was so...
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...singing lyrics to songs that described explicit ways to rape the women who were at their parties. Not only did these songs contribute to finding humor in a dehumanizing act towards women, but also to the normalization of rape. The actions of the fraternity went unchecked and the members did not face any consequences, which led to the sexual assault of at least two women (Chemaly Paragraph 2). Eventually, when emails sent between fraternity members instructed the men on how to sexually assault females at their parties, these songs were used to support the case against them. However, the Phi Kappa Tau’s lawyer claimed in their defense that the rape victims were “‘exploiting the hypersensitivity of today’s college campus environment toward sexual assault”’ (Chemaly Paragraph 2). While some people in modern society tend to overhype current issues in the world, sexual assault is a recurring and prevalent concern among college women who have triple the chance of getting raped than their male peers (Angelone 188). Desensitization of such songs leads to a greater proclivity for the incidence of rape or sexual assault. Furthermore, at an off-campus fraternity at Amherst College in Massachusetts, students were found with t-shirts depicting a woman clad in her bra and panties who was bruised and tied to a stick with a an apple in her mouth while being roasted over a fire. The caption in these shirts proceeded to say, “Roasting Fat Ones Since 1847” (Chemaly Paragraph 22). Such blatant humor...
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...Rape is never the victim’s fault but there are steps that can be taken to help prevent it. The effects of alcohol on date rape on college campuses College is supposed to be a time of learning, fun, making new friends, discovering one’s self, partying, and dating. Unfortunately, college becomes a nightmare for some women when partying and dating are combined. Date rape has become very common amongst university students. It is important to understand what date rape is, how alcohol affects the rapist and the victim in date rape, and how it can be prevented. What is date rape? Rape is usually thought of as something that happens to other people, done by a stranger in a dark alley or during a home invasion; however, that is not usually the case. In fact, forty-seven percent of rapists are a friend or acquaintance of the victim. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, rape is “the penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim” (The United States Department of Justice, 2012). Date rape is different because it happens when an acquaintance or date uses force to engage in intercourse against the victims...
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...Texas Campus Carry Texas Campus Carry has been a major topic of debate as of late. Many of those who support Campus Carry believe that concealed handguns allow licensed adults to defend themselves and protect others in the event of a crisis. These supporters believe gun laws only restrict law abiding citizens from their 2nd amendment rights with minimal effect on criminal gun owners. However; many anti-gun activists believe that more guns are not the answer to a gun problem and a Campus Carry law may increase accidental discharges, violence, as well as youth suicides. The University of Texas massacre fifty years ago is a prime example of this heated issue on both sides of the gun debate. On August 1, 1966, Charles Joseph Whitman climbed the University of Texas Tower, in Austin, and in a span of 96 minutes fired 150 high-powered rounds of ammunition down into unsuspecting university students and faculty. Those nearby heard "strange noises" and thought nothing of it until they saw the bodies and blood on the sidewalks. The shooter killed and wounded nearly 50 people that day (Lavergne). A similar occurrence happened on a Monday morning April 2007, on the campus of Virginia...
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...The article is entitled “How Prevalent Is Campus Sexual Assault in the United States,” written by Lisa Fedina, Jennifer Lynne Holmes, and Bethany Backes. It was published by the National Institute of Justice, Journal No. 277, on June 3rd, 2016. By applying the techniques of the analytical reading process, I was able effectively read, and understand the genre of the article (Kaplan University, 2015). I could identify the audience, and purpose of the article by utilizing the skills I have acquired from the Writing Center. The article speaks particularly to an audience of college students to raise awareness, intervene, and to inform them of the statistical fact of prevalent sexual assault on school grounds. The authors used expository writing...
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