Refocusing on the “Pure, Sober” Rapes

BY MARTIN KICH Myra Crownover, R-Denton, said during a House Committee on Higher Education discussion on college sexual assault: “I was listening for mention of drug or alcohol abuse and, you know, I think those two conversations are so intertwined. I would be curious to see how many times a pure, sober sexual assault happened.…

The Hunting Ground to Be Broadcast Tonight at 8:00 ET on CNN

The website of this CNN documentary report is available at: http://www.cnn.com/shows/the-hunting-ground. The website includes a trailer, as well as a number of informational sources.

Why It’s Gotten Much More Difficult to Discount the Links between Fraternities and Sexual Assaults on Campus

This is a photo of a fraternity on move-in day at Old Dominion University: _________________________ In case this one photo does not seem emblematic to you, this morning the Huffington Post included this item in its daily HuffPost College newsletter: It’s Not Just ODU Students Putting Up Offensive Signs About Freshman Girls While a fraternity at Virginia’s Old Dominion…

Trying to Do the Right Thing on Sexual Assaults May Be Tantamount to Trying to Do the Impossible

Barnard College has been in the news because of its decision to follow the precedents set by Mills College and Smith College and to admit transgender students who identify as female. But a recent memo of understanding between the college and the New York Police Department will almost certainly have much broader ramifications for the…

College Administrators Simply Should Not Be Investigating Criminal Complaints: How They Are Doing It Is Not the Problem; That They Are Doing It Is the Problem

These are the opening paragraphs of an article written by Teresa Watanabe for the Los Angeles Times; the title of the article is “College Administrators Learning to Be Sexual Misconduct Detectives”: “Butte College administrator Al Renville was never trained as a police investigator, but that’s close to the job he found himself in when two…

A Failing Grade for Higher Education: Much-Needed Attention to an Issue Too Long Ignored or Too Often Bungled

This is a scoop from Business Insider on the cover story of the new issue of TIME magazine: http://www.businessinsider.com/new-time-magazine-rape-cover-2014-5

There May Be Nothing Inherently Wrong with It, But, Honestly, I Don’t See How #KUBOOBS Is Helpful

During the NCAA men’s basketball season, the Kansas Jayhawks were losing to their arch-rivals, the Missouri Tigers. Ostensibly to inspire the team, a female KU fan took a “selfie” of her considerable cleavage and posted it at #KUBOOBS. The KUBOOBS website (so, yes, the tweet quickly became a website; who could have predicted that that…

U.S. Department of Education Releases List of Higher Education Institutions with Open Title IX Sexual Violence Investigations

This is a news release from the Department of Education. My own institution, Wright State University, is not on the list, but a member of our executive committee observed: “It’s great that we’re not on it, but unfortunately this is still a problem on our campus. We also have no rape crisis center either on…

200 Princeton Professors Denounce Bestselling Author’s “Blame the Victim” Mentality on Sexual Assault

Susan Patton, author of Marry Smart, Finding the One, is an alumna of Princeton and was recently interviewed in the Daily Princetonian. The following exchange in that interview has provoked outrage: “Daily Princetonian: You wrote: ‘Please spare me your “blaming the victim” outrage,’ saying that a provocatively dressed drunk woman ‘must bear accountability for what…

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