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You will learn from this paper about the rate of sexual assault on a college

While there is no documented first case of sexual assault at Boston University, it is clear that it was becoming a national problem by the 1970’s. As early as 1957 Eugene Kanin produced a study prompted by male aggression on university campus’s. In the study Kanin analyzed cases of one hundred and sixty two girls that felt they had been sexually abused on campus. Scholarly literature presented sexual assault on college campus’s by 1957 (Kamentz). In the 1960’s the violent crime rate skyrocketed across America. Women were the main recipients of the misconduct. It is likely that out of the thousands of students and women that attended BU at this time there were incidences of sexual assault. This became apparent nationally in 1972 when the government was called upon to change the law enforcement community (Sacco).

In both “Athletic club weekend turns into a nightmare for college freshman” by Carol smith and Lee Van Der Voo and “The other side of the college assault crisis” by Max Kutner, the topic of rape is discussed and different views are shared. These two articles show both sides to alleged rape allegations. Rape is a critical social and public health issue, especially in college. When it comes to rape, men and women have disparate sides to their stories. Although rape is a serious ongoing crime, there is also the crime of erroneous rape assertions.

‘Sexual Violence is more than just a crime against individuals. It threatens our families; it threatens our communities. Ultimately, it threatens the entire country’ (qtd. in Burleigh pg. 2). In the article, “Confronting Campus Rape” written by Nina Burleigh; a writer, journalist, and professor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, describes what students are doing to force universities to take a stronger stand against campus sexual assault. Moreover Burleigh describes what the government is doing to make a difference on the issue. This includes laws that have created consequences for the assaulter and laws that protect the victim. According to Burleigh, a young woman called Laura Dunn was sexually assaulted on campus. Dunn was a student of UW. On April 4th, 2014, Dunn lost her virginity to two UW athletes. That night, Dunn was attending a party at the university. Dunn was enjoying the party and lost count of her alcohol intake. Dunn remembers being led out by two older teammates, who she knew. Dunn was very intoxicated, enough to stumble on her way back to what she thought would be another campus party, as one of the athletes helped her walk. The athletes led Dunn to one of their apartments where she found herself on a bed with both of them on top of her. Dunn was so intoxicated that she couldn’t help but to drift in and out of conscious leaving her unable to stop the two men. Dunn began to feel sick and was led to the bathroom by one of the athletes, where he penetrated her from behind while she was throwing up. That was a date Dunn would never forget. Dunn like many other women at the UW have been sexually abused by other students. Although Dun’s incident is shocking, it is not uncommon for women to be sexually assaulted on campus. A woman at the  university of Wisconsin is more prone to being sexually assaulted than any other woman in the country because of alcohol intoxication; this is a problem that must be resolved.

She described to me a situation where UNCW failed to alert the students in a timely manner about a possible case of sexual assault on campus (B. Whitley, personal communications, April 24, 2017). After she informed me of this, I decided to research the rape and sexual assault statistics that the school is legally obligated to update each year. The statistics showed that in 2015 rape was reported seven times on campus and 3 times in residential facilities (Annual Security Report…, 2016, pg. 41).

According to James Pilcher, a writer for Cincinnati.com that covered the case, in 2013 a female freshman student was sexually assaulted by a fellow freshman while in her dorm room. The female student had known the attacker previously and thought that she was just going to be hanging out with said attacker. After the assault had occurred, instead of filing criminal charges, the female student decided to take her case through the university’s internal administrative discipline system (par. 6). According to Abby Anstead in an interview that was conducted, the members of the university’s discipline system found that her attacker “more likely than not” raped her. The university’s

This article by Brooke Boucek includes useful information about the public reporting system of universities and how the federal laws lead administrations to under-report sexual assaults. Boucek begins the article by describing the current Title IX laws for colleges and explaining other legal procedures and acts relating to sexual assault on campuses. The article then includes the perspectives of those accused of rape and how one college decision permanently affected their life; Boucek includes multiple stories and accounts and thus presents

Recently while reading Rolling Stone and looking for an article for this paper, and came across an article called “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA.” In summary, a freshman at the University of Virginia was at a frat party and her date was a member of that certain frat. She chose against drinking which is uncommon in most rape cases that occur on campuses. He later asks her to join him upstairs, and being an innocent naïve girl she decided to follow him. As soon as she entered the dark room and he did not turn on the lights she knew that something was wrong. Soon after she heard many different voices in the room and after seven different frat boys did horrid things to her she understood that this was something that some of these boys were doing this as an initiation into that frat. Of course, her friends who were so-called ‘loyal’ to their college urged her to keep quiet for fear that “she may never be allowed in a frat again” or “put a bad light on the university.” Furthermore, the UVA is under a federal investigation to try to determine if there have been other cases of rape that may have been ‘swept under the rug.’ In this essay I want to investigate the psychology of rape and the rapist, why it happens largely in college campuses and specifically fraternities, and also to understand the “rape culture.”

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When colleges and universities are constantly in competition with each other for students, there are certain issues that occur. Competition has turned into universities and colleges often mishandling sexual assault and rape cases. Campuses want to minimize the danger that they may pose which leads to sexual assault and rape crimes to often be veiled. With this veil in place, it counters the efforts of colleges and universities to address the issue of sexual assault and rape. In July 2016, a survey was released to 350 colleges and university presidents. The purpose of this survey was to showcase whether sexual assault and rape cases were handled correctly or mishandled. Over the last five years, “more than 40 percent of the schools had not conducted a sexual assault and/or rape investigation” (citation). It was revealed that

A late arrangement of profoundly exposed campus sexual assaults and the flawed reactions by the scholastic organizations where they happened, has driven some policymakers and academic administrators to call for administrative and institutional change. For such changes to be powerful, academic administrators and officials need arrangements that successfully secure victims, discipline culprits, and inspire institutional compliance with appropriate legislation. Moreover, there has been huge level headed discussion about how much the criminal justice system can and ought to be included when sexual assaults happen on school grounds. To address these inquiries, there should be a more intensive comprehension of existing state sexual assault laws and their ability to handle sexual assault that happen on school grounds.

Many college campuses are failing to report cases of sexual assault and rape to police. Campuses don’t report these cases because they do not want their reputations ruined.

Next, I will review what the academic literature has to say about the issue of sexual assault on university and college campus and how they have responded to the incident. Third, I will discuss resources that are available for the victims on universities and campuses. The factors that we will be exploring throughout the paper are: resources to help the victim, organizations, and treatments, and the effects on the victim physically, emotionally and academically. A review of literature makes it clear that services and programs offered to victims of sexual assault on universities and college campuses (Vladutiu, Martin, and Macy 2011). I hope that I will be able to answer the research question that I have provided to you at the beginning of the paper properly and efficiently that you will be able to

Throughout the United States there are several instances where college students are victims of sexual assault. Many big name schools like Florida State University, University of Southern California, Harvard, and Stanford have been noted in many popular sources as being not only great in academics, but also for the amount of sexual assault cases that happen on and off campus between students. Many of these universities attempt to cover up these acts for many different reasons; although, there is an Act passed by Congress that would revoke the school’s participation in federal financial aid programs by them not disclosing any criminal acts between students. This is a problem because it can cause a lot of emotional and physical damage to the

Since the 1970’s this has been a growing problem in many colleges. In the article written by Kingston it states “Universities are often petri dishes for both ‘rape culture’ and sexual assault…They’re a microcosm of the way society teaches people how to party and treat women”. There’s been a large number of incidents at colleges where they seem to encourage rape. The University of Vermont fraternity took a poll with their members and asked “If you could rape someone who would it be”. Another incident was at Wesleyan University a student filed a lawsuit against the school because, she was allegedly assaulted at a frat house known as the “Rape Factory”. Police officials tend to see college rapes as the girls sending mixed signals or simply dates gone wrong. That shows the lack of respect that they have for the victims and sympathy they have for the perpetrators. Student offenders are often serial rapists that raped on average 6 women by the time they hit their early 20’s according to Kingston’s article. The predators on college campuses are usually saved because the women are under the influence it makes the police and college officials trust the girls less and they unwillingly let a monster back on their