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    policy, and demographics. As a part of demographics, race was only mentioned ones or twice. Vague Descriptions Specifics with victim All of the articles for different type of schools used very vague language when describing the victim of the sexual assault. Ivy League schools talk generally about the victims in media articles published about

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    Sexual Assault and Alcohol If serious about sexual assault, people must reject principles that puzzle us when justly applied to the problem. Some are now advising to accept, as a standard to the prevention of sexual assault and to personal responsibility, the intoxication principle. This principle is that of an intoxicated person cannot consent to sexual intercourse. Should a person accept this? If so, how should it be applied to Joe and Jane, who had sexual intercourse while both intoxicated? According

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    Sexual assault is an issue on any college campus, but this issue is often generalized and not given very much attention. Nathaniel Haas hopes to break this generalization by focusing on the Greek System and their issues with sexual assaults. Haas’s article primarily focuses on the sexual economy of the Greek system at the University of Southern California and the result it has on the amount of sexual assaults that occur in this system. He introduces to the reader the idea that there is an economy

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    Something that colleges can do to significantly reduce the amount of sexual assaults on campuses is to ban alcohol and drugs. Think about it, they can make people more aggressive and make them more likely to do something they wouldn't otherwise do, and women become more vulnerable when they consume drugs and/or alcohol. Also, using alcohol and drugs can impair one’s judgement, decision making, and dull their senses. Not being under the influence in social situations makes people more aware of their

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    In the last few years, the issue of sexual assault on college campuses have been gaining popularity in the public. Campus sexual assault have been a recurring subject throughout history and it seems to only get bigger. People would think that college campuses will be safe due to the advance security on the campus. Hundreds of women and men are sexually assaulted on campus everyday. Many organizations have started to form in order to help victims and prevent such tragic, heinous acts from happening

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    Sexual Violence on College Campuses Among female college students, 23% said they experienced some form of unwanted sexual contact ranging from kissing, to touching, to rape. All of these females said it was carried out by force or threat of force, or while they were incapacitated because of alcohol or drugs. This data was collected from a survey taken by 150,000 students from 27 different Universities. (Wallace, Kelley, 2105) Sexual assault is sexual contact or behavior that happens without the

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    Sexual Assault in the Military The way we interact with each other in our Army culture impacts the way we perceive behavior in relation to sexual assault and harassment. For instance, a culture that allows discriminating jokes or demeaning behavior helps to perpetuate an environment in which sexual assaults and harassment occur. Also, a Command that fails to punish or can be perceived to fail to punish perpetrators of sexual assault can further perpetuate a harmful environment and degrade unit

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    the Campus Assault Resources and Education (C.A.R.E.), I observed and discussed a problem that I wanted to research more. The problem that I observed was the stigma of male rape and sexual assault victims. There are programs established at the C.A.R.E. office that are geared towards men and the entire staff is making efforts to get away from gendered victim and perpetrator type language, but I still observed that most statistics used in presentations only talked about women sexual assault rates and

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    Sexual Assault 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. It

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    one of her research assistants. Dr. Greeson studies community and social psychology primarily and her main focus of sexual assault is reflected in her studies and research. There are currently two directions of Dr.Greeson’s current research and both are at different places in the process of the research completion. One is that she works to evaluate the success of DePaul’s sexual assault prevention programs. This is evaluated through assessment surveys that are given to participants at the end of the

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