The Hunting Ground Prevention

A graduate student leaving an evening class walks along the poorly lit sidewalk to the parking lot—it is a long, cold walk in the pitch-black night, and the student grows wary as shadows begin lurking in the distance. Suddenly, someone jumps out in front of the student, immediately threatening her with force. Before the student can react, she is raped and robbed. This is a very scary scenario, and one that happens on the SCSU campus every year. It seems like every week we get an e-mail citing another attack on students somewhere on or near campus. However, all of these attacks could be prevented if we allow students to carry guns as a means of self-defense.

Many people think of the bahamas, or a five star hotel when a vacation is mentioned, however that is not true for all. For those who enjoy the outdoors and nature, a nice hunting trip speak more to them. Hunting has been seen in our culture for centuries as a way of reconnecting with nature, and in todays world with the lack of predators it is used to keep nature in balance, as well as keeping in touch with our ancestral traditions.

“One in five women are sexually assaulted while in college” (Not Alone, 2014). In our class of twenty women that means that possibly five women have been sexually assaulted. Out of the five women that I stated could have been sexually assaulted they may have known the perpetrator and often will not report what has happened. According to the spring count of students completed by West Chester University, 9,211 of those students were females (“Headcount Enrollment”, 2014). If I go by the statistic mentioned earlier that one in five women is assaulted that would mean that 1,842 women have been sexually assaulted while enrolled at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Out of 1,842 possible assaults only four were reported last year. Two of which the victims knew prior to the assault. Rankin and Associates consulting conducted a Climate Assessment on West Chester University in September of 2010, a section of the results focused on sexual assault on students. According to the report seven people who reported a sexual assault to the university described their reactions to the universities response. Two students shared the way they felt the response was inappropriate or poor. One described that they felt the suspension for one semester was not an appropriate response to an admitted rape, that public safety lost the victims statement, judicial affairs painted the victim offender as innocent, and that the registrar protected the offender putting the victim in harm’s way and everyone

Is high fence hunting ethical and fair chase? This is a question that has enticed many avid hunters and non-hunters. High fence hunting is becoming more popular and is most commonly associated with trophy deer hunts, typically with very high prices. First, we must specifically define fair chase and how it does and doesn’t play a role within the argument. Fair chase is “the ethical, sportsmanlike, and lawful pursuit and taking of any free ranging wild, native North American big game animal in a manner that does not give the hunter an improper advantage over such animals” (The Boone and Crockett Club). What else makes a hunt a fair chase hunt? Some skills commonly practiced by avid hunters such as scouting, tracking, and the preference of a specific location all have fair chase principles. Of course, these common skills can also be used in “unethical” ways to some as well due to growing technology or in this case, a high fence hunting experience. Some hunters also do not see hunting over food plots, bait, or even on islands as fair chase. The most common argument is the statement “high fence hunting is not fair chase nor is it ethical.” It truly is not fair chase nor is it ethical.

The mainstream media leads many to believe that mass shootings on college campuses are very common, and are in despite need of gun reform. This is actually false information, the truth is that campuses and other schools are among the safest places in America. According to recent studies, the actual homicide rates on campuses are one in one million, considerably less than the nationwide average of fifty-seven million. In addition, other crimes are still proven to be less likely to happen at colleges, rather than in common rural areas. And in most

On April 16th 2007 at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, a student with psychological problems began a two hour killing spree that left 33 dead (Reader). The massacre that occurred at this school is now the worst recorded incident in the history of the United States and eclipses the University of Texas massacre of 1966. In the wake of tragedies like these, students, teachers and administrators propose more measures to make us feel safe on campus. But why weren't these measures in place before? School administrators and police have a responsibility to protect their students and faculty on campus, and these instances clearly shown a lack of fulfilling that responsibility. And yet several campus' refuse to allow law-abiding and

‘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.

disagreed upon for various reasons, the effects of hunting have been and will continue to

Chaos erupted on the Virginia Tech campus as the actions of a lone gunman claimed the lives of 33 innocent students on April 16, 2007. What if 5 or 10 of those 33 people had a weapon on them at the time of the shooting? Would it have changed the outcome? In the last few years, there has been growing violence on US campuses. For example, the Columbine High massacre in 1999, where two students killed 13 and wounded many others. Another example is the University of Iowa shooting where a former student shot and killed four students and wounded one. The campuses of America need to be secured. Students should be able to secure their campus “home” and exercise their 2nd amendment rights in the event of an attack on their campus.

Though most college campuses are statistically safer than the surrounding communities as a whole, college campuses do occasionally host to every type of violent crime found in the rest of society, from murder to assault to rape. Although social education is the best way to deal with a problem like this, under the threatening situations of campus violence, armed police campus should be done as prevention.

As the website “DoSomething.org” states, “1 in 5 women will be sexually assaulted while at college.” Of these sexual assault victims, “4 out of 5 rape victims subsequently suffer from chronic physical or psychological conditions.” (“11 Facts”). These victims “are 13 times more likely to attempt suicide than are people who have not been victims of a crime” (“11 Facts”). The troubles that face sexual assault victims and the families of those victims pose a huge threat not only to the government regarding costs and reactions of the people of the United States, but an even larger threat to past, present, and future victims of sexual assault. Any further protection for these victims from the government would certainly help the victims, the families of the victims, and the people of

The tragic events at Virginia Tech in April of 2007 and Northern Illinois University in February of 2008 have policymakers, campus officials and citizens looking for solutions to prevent future attacks (Dickerson). Violent shootings that have occurred on a few college campuses in recent years have provoked a debate over

One in five women in college will be sexual assualted during college. Yet that is not what I though about the summer before college. I was free from high school. I was excited about college. I was about to move away from home and finally be on my own. There were so many new and exciting things about to happen. Yet I was nerves as well. I was about to move far from home to new place where I knew no one. If things went wrong, my parents will not be there to fix it. For me this is how the summer when. Yet there was another worry that I forgot about, something I had talk and thought a lot senior year. This worry came from a documentary my friend and I watched senior year, The Hunting Ground. This is a documentary about sexual assault on college campus. How colleges cover it up and the toll it has on victims and their families. Watching the women that step up to talk about these stories, I could help but think how easy that could be one of my friends, someone I love or me.

I picked the example, “HUNTERS PLEASE USE CAUTION WHEN HUNTING PEDESTRIANS USING WALK TRAILS.” As soon as I read this signed, I had to laugh. Instantly, I visualized hunters in their orange vests sneaking around hunting people as they walk, similar to a cartoon. Furthermore, a book from my high school years flashed in my head, however, I recall the name of the book. It told a story of a man that had become bored with hunting animals, so he began hunting humans. This sign should have read, “HUNTERS PLEASE USE CAUTION WHEN HUNTING - PEDESTRIANS USING WALK TRAILS.” There should have been some type of separation between “hunting” and “pedestrians”, making two independent

This will also have a substantial effect on the environment and the Earth is already overpopulated as it is, this is clearly seen in different parts of the world. Cities go on for miles without any greenery and are overcrowded, roads look disgusting as there are so many cars on the road polluting the atmosphere and if the population increases even more, there will be more cars on roads which will cause even more air pollution in the atmosphere which means that plants and other species will die as the atmosphere will be so toxic or it could potentially introduce new diseases or cancers. Wild animals could also gradually die out and become extinct because of environmental destruction because the humans would be destroying their habitats and also due to over hunting animals. Animal hunting is a very popular activity to do and if there is a higher population, more people will be killing animals which is another factor that will cause the wild animals to gradually die out. Siberian tigers have been classed by the IUCN as being endangered. There are approximately 300 Siberian tigers left in the wilderness in the regions of China and North Korea and the factors that are influencing the lives of these tigers are due to humans capturing, hunting or the killing of the tigers and habitat loss due to humans constructing more buildings or cutting down trees to use for vital everyday things such as fences, buildings, shelves, desks and books. Overpopulation would start affecting many