For today, continue to explore this article that describes the epidemic of sexual assault on college campuses. Don't just read the main article but click on the hyperlinks and explore some of the other stories out there. Then:
- When you find something interesting, post a link to it as well as a sentence describing why it's interesting in the comment section to this post.
- Do a post on your own blog that explores the issues raised in our class discussions and in the articles you read on this topic (this may count as your weekly blog post).
- Read the posts of two of your classmates on this topic and comment to them. To ensure that everyone has someone read what they wrote, look at the blog immediately preceding and immediately after your own. If you are first or last on the list, look at the two that are immediately preceding or after respectively.
http://jezebel.com/5908472/my-weekend-in-americas-so+called-rape-capital
ReplyDeleteI think this article really shows how little people understand about rape and the general feelings towards girls who cry rape.
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Deletehttps://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/205521.pdf
ReplyDeleteThe Department of Justice provides a ton of facts about sexual assault on college campuses and I was shocked to see the extreme lack of education, policy, and training in regards to handling assault on campus.
http://www.rainn.org/get-information/statistics/frequency-of-sexual-assault
ReplyDeleteThis link talks about the rape rate and how often sexual assaults occur. Its very interesting.
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.thenation.com/blog/172042/notre-dame-and-penn-state-two-rape-scandals-only-one-cry-justice#
ReplyDeleteI think this article does a great job of comparing the Sandusky case and the Lizzy Seeberg case and how one was contained from the media and the other story was all over the news.
http://issues2012-2013.blogspot.com/2013/01/sexual-assault-on-campus.html#comment-form
ReplyDeleteI found this article very disturbing because Wesleyan Univsity was warning the student body about a fraternity that was a danger to students and how they could not fully protect them. If a school recognizes that a fraternity is dangerous then it should not be on campus.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57343141/frat-suspended-for-who-would-you-rape-survey/
ReplyDeleteThe boys in this fraternity have gone way too far in this survey by adding the question of "who you would rape", intelligently by the university they suspended the frat first and prevented sexual assault from actually occurring.
http://articles.courant.com/2012-10-05/news/hc-wesleyan-rape-lawsuit-1006-20121005_1_wesleyan-university-student-wesleyan-community-lawsuit
ReplyDeleteI was surprised to read that Wesleyan University waited so long, until 2011, to terminate the faternity's status as program housing even though the fraternity has had incidents involving sexual assaults for years.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124001493
ReplyDeleteThis is a story about a student's struggle with her rape on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
•In a study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control of 5,000 college students at over 100 colleges, 4% of men answered "yes" to the question "In your lifetime have you been forced to submit to sexual intercourse against your will?" (2)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.oneinfourusa.org/statistics.php
Although 4% of men claim to have been raped before, the question asks "in your lifetime", my assumption is that a majority of these occurences happened when they were young boys opposed to passed out drunk at a party like some girls
http://www.invw.org/node/937
ReplyDeletehttp://www.publicintegrity.org/2010/02/24/4360/lack-consequences-sexual-assault-0
ReplyDeleteI think that this article shows the lack of punishment students accused of rape recieve. It also shows how many students accused of rape have differing lives than their accusers, such as the accused often graduate college while the accuser drops out.
http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/notre-dame-s-bowl-appearance-puts-lizzy-seeberg-story-back-news
ReplyDeleteOn this link there's a video. The video is from "Hardball with Chris Matthews". It is an interview of a Notre Dame alum, Melinda Hennenberger, who is also a political blogger for the Washington Post. Chris Matthews said it best, "I hate this story's reality."
http://www.thenation.com/blog/172299/no-justice-college-rape-victims
ReplyDeleteI found it interesting that a school was trying to make the sexual assualt cases less than what actually existed. Then for the Dean to harass a girl when she wanted to make things right is absolutely wrong. People should not be trying to change the statistics for a campus, especially sexual assaults.
http://www.rainn.org/get-information/statistics/frequency-of-sexual-assault
ReplyDeleteJust shows how screwed up some people are in this country. Way too many people have to go through the traumatic event of sexual assault.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Rape-in-High-School-and-Co-by-Angela-Hattery-130122-689.html
ReplyDeleteThis article relates to the one that we discussed in class regarding Steubenville high school and how rape in athletics is so easily excused with the explanation that "boys will be boys".
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/soraya-chemaly/circle-of-6_b_1373777.html
ReplyDeleteI think that it is important to find support systems and ways to stop rape from ever occuring and by using the app Circle of 6 we are getting one step closer.
http://jezebel.com/5908472/my-weekend-in-americas-so+called-rape-capital
ReplyDeleteThis article shows the difference in environments between big city states (like Illinois) and mountainous state schools (like Montana).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/circle-of-six
ReplyDeleteThis is interesting because it described how people usually know their attacker. This scares me a lot because I could never think of someone I know doing this to me.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/01/local-leaks-tipsters-allege-steubenville-victim-was-drugged/60597/
ReplyDeleteNot for the faint of heart, I fell that this website is a bit biased but provides a bit more information on the case.
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Deletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/29/why-why-manti-teo-katie-couric-interview-auto-tune_n_2568992.html?utm_hp_ref=manti-teo
ReplyDeleteThis link is the interview of the Manit Te'o's story. Why did Manit allow rumors to spread. He talked about how big of an affect peer pressure was. He enjoyed the media attention and wanted the fame. He allowed a rumor to continue and it kept on getting bigger until it became a problem and received negative attention
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/s-daniel-carter/violence-against-women-act-on-campus_b_1424908.html
ReplyDeleteThis is kind of old and I'm not sure what the result of the vote was, but this discusses making an effort to educate college administrations in how to prevent and respond to rape (which is definitely needed!)
http://ncronline.org/news/accountability/reported-sexual-assault-notre-dame-campus-leaves-more-questions-answers
ReplyDeleteThis is the full story by Melinda Henneberger referenced in Joey Rosin's link. It recounts in great detail several stories of students being raped by football players and the protection afforded to the football players. Focuses closely on Notre Dame.