For instance, Alice Dreger points to some the problems of alcohol and university acceptance of alcohol by colleges in her article “Step in, or Look Away”. The article act in response following a New York Times report on drinking and sexual assault on five major universities, which contended that the alcohol soaked scenes in those colleges laid the groundwork for rampant sexual assault. Dreger adds to this by reporting the connections between alcohol and sexual assaults she has noticed which living near Michigan State College. Her account includes instances off being awoken by screams for help, and instances of seeing drunken women being dragged into houses. She states her instances of debated worries of whether to make calls to police about suspicious instances, in which not calling would risk possible sexual assaults occurring, and calling could risk pulling police away from responding to other instances of alcohol poisoning.…
In the article “College Women: Stop Getting Drunk,” Emily Yoffe from Slate primarily focuses on the story of female students being exposed to potential sexual assault as a consequence of alcohol drinking. However, former colleague of Emily Yoffe strongly argues in the article “To Prevent Rape of College Campuses, Focus on the Rapist, Not the Victims,” Amanda Hess agrees some of the ideas from Yoffe, but she opposes that female college students is not the one who should be careful about sexual assault due to the overdose of alcohol. Hess points out that college should focus on the male student who is primary threats to the plastered girl to prevent a potential threat of sexual assault by strongly punishing and controlling them in college campuses.…
Critique: The Drunk Sex Epidemic The way that Johnson presents her information is resourceful, however the lack of proper citations we are left to assume that presented information supposedly collected in recent studies and from reputable university faculty are in fact correct. While this article that was found in a 2017 February edition of Cosmopolitan magazine, that usual hires interns who are pursuing undergraduate studies, may or may not have background experience in such assignments, so information presented may be abstract. However, the writing style that Johnson uses throughout her article helps make it easy to follow with other magazines comparable with Cosmopolitan.…
All high school students have heard of the crazy college stories and fun college students have, but what about the untold stories of sexaul assaults that happen on college campuses? Sexual assaults rates are high overall globally. The highest rates are found in southern Sub-Saharan Africa at 21%, and the lowest are found in India, Bangladesh and Turkey at 3% to 4.5% (“Women Face”). The United States faces rates of 13% overall (“Women Face”). On college campuses, rates jump to 20%, or one in five (“Obama Launches’”).…
Fisher and colleagues, there are a handful of assessed risk factors that come with campus rape. These risk factors include prior victimization to college, substance use of alcohol and drugs, age and the year of study in college, race and ethnicity of victim, the residential status of the victim, sorority membership, dating violence history of the victim, consensual sexual experiences, and attitudinal characteristics of both the victim and the perpetrator. Substance abuse can play a large part in the raping of females on campus because it impairs their ability to resist, fight back, or call for help. But according to this final report on campus sexual assault, women of different ethnic backgrounds and/or of the lower classmen classification were more at risk for rape on campus. In terms of the residential status of the victim, those living in a sorority house and members of sororities were more likely to be coerced with drugs and alcohol, and therefore under more risk for victimization of rape.…
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.…
Rape on U.S. College Campuses: Causes, Effects, and What’s Being Done to Stop It Rape culture on college campuses is pervasive and blatant, but universities, as well as fellow students, politicians, law enforcement officials, media messages, and gender roles in a culture where men dominate and women are not taken as seriously, endorse the bias that sexual assault is the victim’s fault or “unavoidable” in a culture where X, instead of focusing on preventing rape by changing the behavior of perpetrators. Rape culture on campus is perpetuated by the media, U.S. laws, and universities trying to protect their name. The continued emphasis on the actions of sexual assault victims, instead of aggressors, is a real problem in U.S. colleges today and…
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…
“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.…
Sexual assault is often observed as a deleterious crime that is deliberately done to physically hurt the victim for a moment, however, it also causes prolonged negative consequences. This social phenomenon has become a significant part of the dominant culture where society substantially associates sexual assault and rape with the notion of sexual pleasure. In reality, however, it arises from an overly controlling individual’s possibly through physical violence, emotional pressure or leveraging of power or alternative social capital. Although many would link multiple factors that would associate for someone vulnerable to be sexually assaulted such as provocative clothing, alcohol, and drug consumption, etc. The underlying idea is to devalue…
The Rape Treatment Center at Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center say’s that a university should have three goals in their campus based sexual assault programs. One is to educate students, faculty and staff about sexual violence. Two is to prevent sexual assaults involving members of the campus community. The third and final goal is to provide an appropriate response when sexual assaults occur. These goals can be achieved when colleges implement effective policies, protocols, service delivery systems, security measures and educational activities…
Many women are told to be cautious of new men they meet, and to always watch their drinks at parties. Although this information is true and very helpful, isn’t it sad that men and women have to live in constant fear of sexual assault? Melissa Fritchle, a sex therapist and author of The Conscious Sexual Self Workbook, states that, “You should be able to get drunk at a party and not be violated” (Hartmans). This seems like common sense, but as we know, this is not always the case. I believe that sexual assault and its victims is a difficult topic to discuss in today’s society, but it is a common occurrence and awareness needs to be raised.…
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?…
Detecting spiked drinks is one step, but a lasting reduction in rape means changing everyone’s attitudes on the subject. “A change in policy alone won’t stop rape,” Foubert says, pointing out that the law prohibits underage drinking, but that doesn’t stop most college students. Berkowitz agrees. “Think of how our attitude changed towards drinking and driving over the past few decades,” he says. “We need to use the same thinking and methods for sexual assault.”…
There are currently numerous court cases currently happening because of this unfortunate situation. According to a 2003 U.S. Department of Justice report, rape is the most common violent crime at U.S. universities, it occurs to about 35 per 1,000 female college students per year. However, fewer than 5 percent of these rapes are reported to police. The book stated that women may decline to report rape out of shame, self-reproach for drinking too much, or fear of social isolation from the perpetrators and her friends. It was not a surprised that ninety percent of the college women who are raped know their perpetrators and most rapes occur in social situations.…