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Sexual Assault On College Campuses

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Every 98 seconds sexual assault occurs. More than 570 people in the United States alone face sexual assault in the duration of 24 hours. A large percent of these victims are students. Rape and sexual assault is escalating rapidly throughout the country within highschool and college students meanwhile schools are not addressing these issues. Many factors contribute to the rise of sexual assault such as; illegal drinking, greek-life, lack of police related officials, and campuses are not supporting them. Although students don’t speak up about sexual assault because they are afraid of getting in trouble, these incidents are occurring more and more. Schools need to address the issue of sexual assault on campuses because it is the victims and their …show more content…

Students are attracted to greek-life because of the commeriaty. According to James G. Martin Center “fraternities and sororities constitute a huge part of the social scene at Northwestern. The school reports that about 3,000 students, or 40 percent of the student body, participate in the Greek system.” With many students involved in Greek life, students are drinking at higher amounts, hazing, and other illegal activities leading to rape. With more parties being held, both male and female rape rates are increasing. “Some fraternities encourage both heavy drinking and sexual exploitation of women .” (NIAAA) “Brown University recently stripped one fraternity of recognition, including housing, for four years, and suspended privileges for another fraternity, in response to reports of spiked drinks at one party and unwanted touching at another.”(New York Times) These spiked drinks lead to accounts of rape.
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.
“As long as colleges continue to do just the bare minimum to protect themselves, rather than students, nothing will change. A common frustration among both victims and the accused is that they don't know how to navigate convoluted university hearings. Certain policy changes, like removing barriers to open communication, are easy to implement …show more content…

Campuses are putting up a visage to distract parents and students at a vulnerable time of college hunting just so they can get more money. Our money is more important to colleges than children’s safety, just so they are more marketable they ignore the true troubles students are facing. Rather then administration narrowing down on students mental health they focus on the students grade point averages and the final exams administered. Statistics show that “a 2014 report by the U.S. Department of Justice estimated that 80% of student victims don’t report their rape or sexual assault to police, based on data from 1995–2013. Just because a school had no rape reports doesn’t mean no rapes happened.”(Reddit) Colleges are too naive to report them so they can have a better

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