Tag: sexual assault

  • Why Campuses Can’t Talk About Alcohol When It Comes to Sexual Assault

    Here’s an interesting article from The Chronicle of Higher Education on a difficult issue facing college campuses.  It’s crucial that we lower the rates of sexual assault on campuses, but how do we do that and talk about unsafe drinking practices without blaming victims and exonerating perpetrators?

  • The Daily Show’s Depiction of Campus Safety for Women

    http://www.hulu.com/watch/654144 I had a hard time laughing at this piece, but I’m so glad that The Daily Show took on the issue and showed how women remain vulnerable to abuse on college campuses.  The host’s questioning of the “expelled after graduation” sentence (“Isn’t that just…graduation?!?”) points to the ways that colleges and universities struggle to handle sexual assault…