On Campus Sexual Assault

Improved Essays
On campus sexual assault is a growing epidemic in today's society. It often gets swept under the rug by universities, students have to deal with the trauma following their assault on their own, and causing their grades to suffer.

19% of college students are sexually assaulted and 80% of on-campus sexual assaults go unreported. When the issue is brought to the school board it is often swept under the rug. They are told that what happened to them wasn’t a big deal, to get over it, or that it was their fault. They get asked what they were wearing or if they were intoxicated, told that they were asking for it. They have to face the fact that their rapist won. They get talked out of bringing the issue to the police just so the university can keep

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    In some cases, the victims were made to feel as if it was their own fault. In other cases, there was little to no action taken at all. In one instance at Florida State University, where the victims alleged attacker was on the football team, she was told that “the football team is very powerful” as to tell her that she would never win her case or she had no case. The idea that these universities would not try and cover up these cases or infer that it was the victims fault is very much appalling. It is telling the students on these campuses they value money and the reputation of the school over the life or well-being of the students.…

    • 1095 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Many colleges accused of negligence use the tactic of blaming the plaintiff for their assault to rid themselves of blame which contributes to rape culture. A case at Worcester Polytechnic Institute received…

    • 2092 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Sexual Assault On Campus

    • 635 Words
    • 3 Pages

    While more than half of sexual assaults against women of college age occur off campus, on campus assaults are a problem that college and universities can and should do more to address. The best statistics show there is a correlation between 3 factors, alcohol use, sorority membership, and class status, and sexual assault on campus. To combat these trends colleges and universities need to address these factors while taking into account that any measures they take not simply move the problem from campus to off campus locations. This means that the measures taken should be centered on raising awareness, encouraging responsibility, and holding offenders accountable in a just way, while also addressing the campus code of conduct.…

    • 635 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    In a vast majority of cases where a woman reports sexual assault, the first questions that are asked come along the lines of “Were you drinking? What were you wearing? Was it really non-consensual?” There is a cultural belief and standard way of thought that if a woman “provokes” it, by, for example, dressing provocatively, being open about her sexuality, or even “leading a man on”, that she is asking for sex and that it’s not “really rape” or “legitimate rape” because she implied “yes” with her actions. This culture is perpetuated blatantly and with great magnitude on college campuses by the Greek system – specifically, Fraternities.…

    • 1890 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Essay On Campus Rape

    • 2198 Words
    • 9 Pages

    The most recent headline regarding campus rape involves a Yale athlete, basketball captain Jim Montague, who the university supported until the student body got involved and made the issue go viral. One can only wonder, how the situation may have proceeded if it had not been nationally publicized. Reading through the book Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town, I noticed a pattern among the men who had committed the offenses— they all were college athletes. To say all college rapists are athletes or all male college athletes are rapists would be far from the truth. Statistically however one in three sexual assaults on campus is committed by college athletes.…

    • 2198 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “Only about 12 percent of rapes among college women are reported to law enforcement” (Mantel 3). Brandt-Young says in Barbra Mantel’s article that “People need to understand the dynamics of sexual assault and the dynamics of forensic interviewing, so that they don’t re-traumatize the victim while they investigate.” faculty and staff on college campuses are usually not sensitive to the victims trauma. At times their vigorously interrogating techniques and pressuring may cause the victim to shut down.…

    • 1232 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “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.…

    • 719 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Sexual assault has proliferated across college campuses, and remains one of the most underreported violent type crimes in the country. The lifestyle college brings of staying up late, drinking, partying, going out to the bars and fraternizing with young men expose women to a higher risk of encountering unwanted sexual conduct. Statistics show that as many as one in every five females to attend college will experience some type of sexual assault in their academic career. Typically the only sexual assault cases at colleges that make the news are the ones involving student athletes. This is a very small number of all sexual assault cases and is unrepresentative of the magnitude of the problem.…

    • 1541 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Sexual Assault Stereotypes

    • 1004 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Over the past decade, sexual assault has become very topical and newsworthy. The spotlight has become brighter with what is seemingly a constant stream of reports on college campuses and churches across the country and throughout the military. Thanks to a renewed effort to create awareness, legislation (Title IX) and more aggressive prosecution, women (and men) have become more comfortable reporting such abuses. One ugly theme with respect to sexual assault, abuse, or rape is the misconceptions and stereotypes that it carries. It was somehow the victim’s fault.…

    • 1004 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Campus Rape Essay

    • 1558 Words
    • 6 Pages

    These students thought they had their life pretty much planned out, going to college and getting that college experience before going out in the world, and to have it completely turned upside down and rewritten on account of someone acting like a monster. Whether the student was intoxicated, under the influence, had previous consent but change their mine does not give the slightest amount of reasoning to be okay; and for those who have committed this crime and have gone unpunished is just sick. When people do not believe the victim at hand or believe that it is an actual crime, they do not see the after effect it has on the victim. The student will no longer be herself, maybe after a long time, in a sense it will slowly kill her inside and I believe that should not go unpunished and definitely not taken lightly. With all these policies being enforced and having Universities keep up with their statistics is a start to an end of sexual assault.…

    • 1558 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Great Essays

    What Universities can do to prevent sexual assault on Campuses The camera panned into a single white framed window. Lady Gaga was dressed in all white sitting at a beautiful white piano with darkness in the background. Her voice was full of the kind of emotion that made you stand still. Her words were loud, dramatic and honest.…

    • 2035 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Sexual Assault Epidemic

    • 1055 Words
    • 5 Pages

    I feel like this topic is mostly overlooked, either by college administrations or college security. They try to avoid a big scandal because no one wants the word of a sexual assault that happened to get out. In the very recent sexual assault charges against Brock Turner, the assailant was found guilty on the charges of 3 counts felony sexual assault. The former swimmer for Stanford University and his attorney tried to claim the assault was consensual, but was impossible because the victim was unconscious due to drinking so much she blacked out. The Prosecutor had asked for Turner to serve 6 years in prison, but instead, he only served 3 months in county prison (Emanuella Grinberg and Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN).…

    • 1055 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Warning, the following text includes triggers that may harm individuals. A Call To Change Women around the world age 15-44 are more at risk from rape and domestic violence than from cancer, car accidents, war and malaria (Violence against women). One in five women on U.S. college campuses have experienced sexual assault (Kessler). These statistics should shock one to the core, but does it?…

    • 1037 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Many girls are sexually assaulted in college, and very few ever get justice for it. While many girls are silent about their encounters, the ones who do speak up, very rarely actually see justice all the way through. It is not always the criminal justice system who fails to provide justice. There are many cases where a sexual assault case does not even make it to a criminal justice setting because of the stigma surrounding rape and sexual assault. In today’s world, there have been many cases when girls are silenced by either their attacker, or a school official to keep it from going to the police and becoming public.…

    • 396 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    College Rape Essay

    • 1163 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Sexual assault perpetrators usually prey in populations where people are new and those who don’t quite know the ropes yet. These colleges may also not know their boundaries, people around campus, and how to hold their liquor. When intoxicated or high on drugs, it is still rape to have sex with that person because their consent is not given. Reporting such a case is challenging especially when you can’t recall exactly what happened. Audrey Logan, a student attending Occidental College in 2010 experienced something similar.…

    • 1163 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays