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Trump’s secretary of education nominee refused at her confirmation hearing to state a firm commitment to using Title IX to respond properly to sexual assault on college campuses. That’s reason for concern.
How do news stories about campus rape affect a teen’s choice of colleges? Video journalists Sierra Bardfeld and Jessica Roman asked teens in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
The college’s graduation ceremony on Sunday became the latest forum for expressing outrage at a case that former football star Brian Banks, wrongly imprisoned for five years on rape charges, describes as “a case of privilege.”
Novel interventions are springing up across college campuses to help young women prevent and even recover from rape. They are not a substitute for educating males and holding perpetrators accountable. But their benefits should still be appreciated.
Some safety activists hail CASA, the bipartisan bill currently knocking around the Senate, as a means of curbing campus rape. But others see it as a dangerous threat to the rising and stronger protections of Title IX in this area. Will Clinton’s proposal take sides?
The campus safety legislation, called CASA, faces a Senate vote this month. Critics say that while it may be designed to curb rape and sex assault at colleges, it could actually make it harder to investigate and prosecute campus rape.
Why would Congress put into federal law the idea that campus-rape reporting can be deterred? Congress must stop messing with the essential idea that when it comes to redressing sexual violence on campuses, women have a civil right to safety and equality.
The Student Safety: Sexual Assault, or “affirmative consent,” legislation, could reach Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk by the end of the summer. A legislator who supports the bill says it’s time to change the mindset of “boys just getting crazy and drunk, being irresponsible.” LOS ANGELES (WOMENSENEWS)– Like other campus sexual assault survivors, Sofie Karasek said her attack freshman year by a classmate at the University of California-Berkeley left her distraught at first, wondering whether she should “make a big deal of it,” then puzzled and angry at what she felt was her university’s inadequate response after she reported the incident.
Among college students, attitudes toward sexuality can be dangerously divergent, as my own traumatic experience attests. We need another campus-rape summit to talk about this.
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