Sexual Assault At USC Summary

In David Luzer’s article “Is Alcohol Really to Blame for the Prevalence of Sexual Assault on College Campuses?” published on November 18 2015 by Pacific Standard, introduces that alcohol is not entirely to blame for the matter of rises in sexual assault. After thoroughly overviewing the many cases of sexual assault from modern time to back mid 1900’s, before co-educated colleges they realized the numbers have significantly increased. Without any evidence as to why except the common factor alcohol, they started to put blame where it does not belong. Alarmingly, the numbers have increased in many colleges causing people to caution woman about how they act at celebrations. Many people disagreed with the caution of woman, and decided the blame

In her essay,” ‘Hooking Up’: What Educators Need to Know”, Kathleen A. Bogle illustrates that college students are having more casual sex aka ”Hooking Up” (248). Also Educators need be able to tell the different of casual sex and sexual assault. Bogle illustrates hooking up is a more common practice because the shift of social and dating. She explains that hooking up is the new dating system for college students to find “sexual and romantic partners” (249). According to Bogle hooking up is the thing to do for today’s generation even if it has been a part of social culture since the 1960s. Because so many students are doing it in today’s generation Bogle believes hook up culture has changed the way we react to subjects such as sexual assault. “Sexual assault on the college campus stems from the ambiguity of the ’unable to consent’ provision of state laws” (Bogle 250). “Hooking Up” usually occurs at parties towards the in the night when students are under the influence of alcohol. In Bogle’s view the shift of dating practices to hooking up have created more problems in the prevention of rape. She goes to explain that because of the rise in drunken hookups sexual assault is no longer limited to date rape situations. Bogle states that students also have a hard time of distinguishing a sexual encounter and rape due to victim-blaming. Bogle stresses that though college administrators can’t stop the fact that students are going to hook up they should educate students more on the

In a society dominated by patriarchal standards and plagued by its consequences, it is crucial to understand the variety of cultural patterns present in our everyday. Within the context of a university environment, in particular, individuals are faced with decisions and situations that hold potentially dangerous and damaging consequences. Whether we are enabling these situations directly or merely bearing witness to their results, we must all work to gain an understanding of these patterns and reflect inwardly about our values before we can make a legitimate social change. Below, I discuss three quotations that present issues especially relevant to college campus sexual assault, and how the authors’ discussion of these topics has affected me emotionally and intellectually.

I have read the article “In Mocking Rape Culture, My University Revealed Our Own” from the Ms Magazine. It happened in Western Kentucky University for a football game. This time rape culture reared its head in the enthusiasm leading up to Saturday’s football game against Vanderbilt University, a rival school just one hour south rocked by a 2013 gang rape involving football players. It made me for a deep thinking. The Raped - a porn, the vulgarization of the social problems, the original is essentially a very serious academic problem, we can completely like the wild of ancient times society, down to the modern pictures of gossip, will go searching and grasp. We can probe into the male and female genitalia characteristics and specific characteristics

In Thiel’s paper, she analyzes the article, “Campus sexual assault adjudication and resistance to reform” by Michelle J. Anderson. Thiel clearly gives the claim of the article—the act of rape is not taken serious enough. The article gives a great topic and a controversial issue in the society. And she also makes the problem more related to our lives by giving the sexual assault that happened in Baylor, which immediately takes my attention and interest to the paper. The essay has a great introduction that can attract readers and she gives a brief description for what will be discuss in the rest of the paper.

Dating violence and sexual assault among college students is a well known phenomenon. These definitions over arch the perpetration of physical, emotional or threat abuse and a continuum of unwanted to sexual contact. One of the biggest risk factors associated with both is the consumption of alcohol. I think to decrease rates of sexual assault and dating violence on campus’s would be to get rid of the Greek system completely. Such institutions are rooted in tradition of male patriarchy and the continuum of a gender socialization process of what makes a young relationship “normal”. Males in fraternities and females in sororities are both more susceptible to hold stereotypical gender attitudes and experience sexual assault. This would be a hard plan to implement because the Greek system is such a huge tradition at college but I think a significant step like this could in fact help protect college students from dating violence and sexual assault.

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

Sexual assault is something that is increasingly common on college campus’, 1 in 4 women are assaulted at some point during their university career. Some might say “are you serious? That’s some feminist propaganda!” But this is the truth, and is the reality of universities across the US and beyond. When you see a promotional video about Harvard University, they don’t show you the statistics of sexual assault/misconduct. They show you an idealized view of university, they want to show you how you can achieve the American dream! Harvard, as the top dog of ivy league universities, has one of the highest numbers of sexual assault and misconduct. They are top in education, and in crime.

Boucek, Brooke W. “Riding the He-Said-She-Said Dichotomy: The Deep Entanglement of Sexual Violence on College Campuses.” American Journal of Trial Advocacy, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 103-129.

One of the most substantial concerns for students preparing to start college is the issue of safety. It is not possible to trust everyone met here, even when inside the college campus bubble. In about 80 percent of campus crime, students are the perpetrators (Ball). Sometimes, students are afraid to go outside because they target certain groups of people. Groups of sorority and fraternity members have felt particularly exposed and stopped wearing their letters for fear of attracting attention. Socioeconomic diversity also creates conflicts. To continue, many do not understand the precautions necessary to avoid getting snarled up in these risky situations. In addition, the crime level is underrated as a result of victims failing to report incidents. About 20 percent of women will experience a form of sexual assault at some point during their college career (Gray). Typically, people who are not familiar with law

and the U.S. Rape culture is easily identifiable on campus as it is a public institution where individuals live, work and study. According to academic professors, Crystal Mills and Barbara Granoff (1992), the main factor that contributes to CSA is the use of date rape (Mills and Granoff, 1992: p. 504). Victims do not report their assault to the colleges and universities’, because the institution will try and suppress the bad news from going public and saving its reputation; in addition, victims do not want to risk being stigmatised within the campus environment (Anderson and Doherty, 2008: p. 13). Subsequently, there is an issue of what is considered rape such as, what actions can be accounted for rape? Or how can you distinguish a real victim? Thus, this can be reflected upon the way society’s view within culture, politics and social conditions. For instance, if the victim did not struggle against the rape, they may not be viewed as a rape victim, and upon investigation of the incident, their emotional responses will be reported and this will decide whether the victim is being truthful or lying about being raped (Anderson and Doherty, 2008: p. 5). Meanwhile, the administration officials of the colleges and universities would have questioned the victim’s accounts, and this can lead to

College is where young women and men beginning one of the most biggest and exciting adventures. The students typically move out and begin to experience adulthood for the first time and often the first time one can begin to make their own decisions. This also a very stressful times for students as they must deal with the stress of their school work, internships, living on their own, and in some cases deal with the effects of sexual assault. Sexual assault on college campuses has been a problem for many years; however, in the past several years, this issue has come to light. In this paper I will discuss sexual assaults being reported and how the universities deal with the reported sexual assault, the statistics colleges report for

For most students fresh out of high school, college provides a fresh new experience free of the restrictions present while living under your parents roof. Life on a college campus provides not only the means to develop intellectual skills that are necessary to join the workforce but also the means to become a fully functioning independent member of society. Many social traditions are common on all college campuses and one that often gets explored is sexual culture and the exploration of such. Sadly what seems to be becoming a trend in most schools, from the most scholarly and prestigious universities like Harvard, to community colleges is a trend of rape and sexual abuse of men on women. Campus rape is the rape of a student attending an institute of higher learning such as a college or university. This term puts emphasis on the campus where these institutions are, but are not necessarily confined to those boundaries. College campuses host a large concentration of women that have a much higher risk of rape or other sexual assault that women in the general population or in a comparable age group. During the past two decades a concern for the victimization of college women has been escalated, and this is mostly due to the fact that the concern for victimized women has grown in general; victimization that previously received little to no attention is finally being recognized. Nowadays crime against women

Sexual coercion, sexual assault, and rape are acts of violence with numerous physical and mental health consequences (Helgeson, 430). It is important for future generations to be informed about these topics so that we can it prevent it from continuing. Sexual assaults are a rising problem for female teens on college campuses because of the discrepancies with the no means no policy, reoccurring problems with college fraternities, and today’s “rape” culture enabling sexual assault.

Throughout history especially within recent years there has been a major rise of sexual assault and violence against women. This is prevalent within college campuses, within work, the military, within family households and nearly all parts of society there is no getting away from it. It is truly a shame and a wretched part of society. However, this needs to be brought to light. This can no longer be avoided and society needs to come together as a whole, in order to stop this. Throughout this essay we are going to go over the statistical background of violence and sexual assault towards women, sexual assault on college campuses, the emotional abuse of those affected, and why Victims don't come forward. Then a step-by-step breakdown of how we can rid society from these unacceptable acts of violence and sexual assault towards woman. Before exploring the deeper aspects of violence and sexual assault towards woman, it’s important to have a historical foundation and statistics.