Tina deVaron’s article “At Colleges Plagued with Date Rape, Why ‘No’ Still Means ‘Yes’” argues that the amount of date rape on college campuses is due to women feeling that they have to tolerate the lewd behaviors being exhibited by young college men. DeVaron starts the article describing a college a cappella performance. As part of their performance an all male group pretended to unzip their pants and then continued to “thrust their pelvises” towards a meek young female on stage. She explains how this type of lewd behavior is being allowed to happen on college campuses all over, enabling men to rape. She claims these unsafe environments are not being properly addressed.…
“Humphreys at a Glance” is about sociologist Laud Humphreys who conducted a research on male-male sexual relationships at a public restroom referred to as tearooms. He pretended to be a simple voyeur. He observed all activities going on and recorded the license plate numbers of all participants. A year later he decided to visit their homes, and question them about the activity in the tearooms. He knew that the men would never agree to be a part of a survey or research if they were selected because of their participation in highly defamed and illicit behavior.…
The article “Barhopping with the Bud Girls” by James Hibberd gives its readers a bit of insight into a controversial marketing technique of some of America’s largest beer companies. In the article, Hibberd shows how certain companies hire college students as representatives for the company and how those students market their particular beer brand to their fellow students. I think this article is directed towards any average adult who is curious about the potential abuse of alcohol on college campuses. The piece includes enough background information about these college representatives that any lay person could pick it up and feel well informed by the end. The text also preserves the witty and snarky personality of the writer, which allows…
American Hookup Chapters 7-9 Reflection Paper Chapter 7 explains the phenomenon of unequal pleasures between men and women consumed with hook up culture. There is an orgasm gap. In hook-up culture, the male orgasm is the pinnacle of the sexual act. There is no to little reciprocity involved in the arrangement. Men only feel the need to give a woman an orgasm if they are his girlfriend.…
In Daniel Luzer’s article “Is Alcohol Really to Blame for the Prevalence of Sexual Assault on College Campuses” published on November 18th 2013 by Pacific Standard, the truth about alcohol and sexual assaults on campuses across the nation is shown. After a statistic of women getting sexually assaulted in college was shown, people were concerned. People soon asked the big question, why do they occur? The U.S. Department of Justice soon stepped to answer, why? Alcohol.…
Also, Hess backs up the idea of that boys are the one who is responsible for it. However, she is more on the side of college campuses that they are not taking care of the rapist. She states that alcohol in college campuses “is a symbolic proxy for high status on campus do” (Hess). She pointed out that college campuses’ drinking traditional is the real problem and college campuses are the one responsible for it. All three authors have identified an issue and who is more responsible for it.…
Jon A. and Richardson help their readers to recognize the problem by providing them with the fact that “assault rates have been 3.1 to 4.4 times higher at the most permissive colleges and universities than at their more restrictive counterparts” (par. 5). Consequently, readers are able to infer the authors’ stance on the argument and purpose in writing the article. After clearly addressing the problem, Jon A. and Richardson then go on to inform the audience on ways they can prevent the assaults from happening. According to the authors’, the most effective solution would be to create a school wide ban on alcohol and prohibit members of the opposite sex from entering each other’s dorms after a certain hour (par. 18). Furthermore, this solution proves to readers that the authors’ are not only trying to address the sexual assault problem on college campuses but they are also trying to prevent…
According to Jenica A. Asadorian and colleagues, since female students were “more likely to experience unwanted sex… than are male students,” our focus is at female students of college age at a public University. Because there are between thirty and forty different public institutions in Texas alone, we will focused our study on several specific public Universities. Because of their high student population and high traffic throughout the campus, the three target Universities are Texas Tech, University of Texas, and University of Texas at Arlington (Asadorian et al.,…
Vincent (2012), said that “the hookup culture has been a source of great anxiety for parents, who worry about the effects on their kids as they move from campus antics to working world and family life” (p. 2). It is not possible to avoid all things that causes anxiety, because it is part of our daily and basic lifestyles as human being; parents instincts are to be protectively of their children regardless their age. They fear that a broken heart may cause their child or a narrow plan to not only lose hope in what is it to have a significant other like they do, but could also affect their ability to concentrate and stay focus. I think it is okay parents to allow their children especially young adults like universities for example to be worried,…
Abbey states that more than half of sexual assault cases in college involve alcohol. Many of Abbey’s reasons for sexual assault in college involves situations that occur at the college party scene, “These pathways include beliefs about alcohol, deficits in higher order cogitative processing and motor impairments induced by alcohol and peer group norms that encourage heavy drinking and forced sex” (125). Abbey argues: “Prevention programs should begin in…
The article I have chosen to read was Disappearing Act by Michael Gurian. This article specifically focused on how the male attendance at universities and higher learning institutions has changed dramatically over the years. For example, up until the late 1800’s women were not able to further their education. Perhaps the author wrote this article because he wanted to bring it to the audience’s attention about how the drop in male attendance has been increasing over the past couple years. But in order to get a better understanding we will first discuss issues that can be seen from the early school years, then we will look at what the universities and institutes were like then and finally, we will see what the universities and institutes look…
“In 2013, 59.4 percent of full-time college students ages 18 and 22 drank alcohol in the past month compared with 50.6 percent of other persons of the same age” (“College Drinking”). Alcohol abuse misleads the causes of sexual assault. Sexual assault is very common on college campuses due to easy access of alcohol. Too much drinking could lead to destroying a person's inner body parts. In the meantime, college campuses should be more strict enforcing the rules and regulations about drinking.…
Susan Minot’s story titled Lust is written in first-person perspective and it revolves around the adolescent life of a 15-year-old girl as she lives in boarding school. The narrator is the girl herself, unnamed and anonymous in terms of characterization; very accurately depicting someone with low self-esteem. The story opens right away with the character introducing the boys she’s met during her time at boarding school but goes no more into depth about them than mentioning the sexual experiences they have had, such as seeing one naked for the first time or French kissing another. The readers get little, if any, description of the male characters beyond their names.…
Is the hookup culture leaving our generation more unhappy or unprepared for love, and what exactly is the hookup culture? The hookup culture is a group of people who promotes and accepts the fact that having sexual intercourses with someone without commitment is acceptable. The hookup culture is in fact leaving our generation unhappy and also unprepared. However, it is leaving our generation unhappy because of the emotional journey that brings upon us. This is harmful because it makes people feel damaged and puts them in a state of mind that doing wrong is right.…
A Critical Analysis”) Conversations are hard to interpret and clear communication is not expressed between partners. Laura Klinger, in the Editorial Board of CSAL at Grand Valley State University, reviews the nature of dating culture in college and expresses the challenges, especially communication, that inflict negative consequences on students. (Klinger, ”Hookup Culture on College Campuses:”) In her article,”Hookup Culture on College Campuses:”, Klinger explains a study done, of twenty-five undergraduate students, were four main themes emerged explaining why clear communication is challenging.…