http://www.businessinsider.com/yale-law-professor-on-college-sexual-assault-problem-2014-11
Yale Law professor is one of the few professors to address the sexual assault issues and give a few solutions to decrease the problem.
Harvard Professors Oppose New Sexual Assault Polices From Obama
http://dailysignal.com/2014/11/07/harvard-professors-reject-obama-campus-rape-policies/
The professors at Harvard University wrote a letter to Harvard stating that they are against the new policies that the university agreed to in fear that they would lose government financial support. The professors think the new policies don’t give the accused a fair trial or prove their innocence.
Columbia Student STILL Carries That Weight
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/06/is-columbia-failing-campus-rape-victims.html
Online news source published the most recent report that Emma Sulkowicz continues to carry her mattress which means that her rapist is still on campus. The only action Columbia University has taken are to decrease the publicity around Sulkowicz and the university. Columbia charged Sulkowicz and her supporters with a clean up fee after their group march on The National Day of Action.
Interesting Point of View From A Female Blogger
These two women have published their ideas on the gray area of sexual assault- not the concrete cases of rape but the college hook up culture situations. These bloggers and authors disagree with liberal feminists because they believe that universities should protect women against men, automatically establishing who the victim is and who is guilty. This point of view makes sexual assault even more complicated than it was before because when alcohol is heavily involved in both parties then what is the determining factor that sex for either of them was consensual? If you are under the influence and agree to have sex, is that consent? Or if you regret having sex the next day is that classified as sexual assault?
University of Florida Student Newspaper- On Campus Rape IS an Issue
http://www.alligator.org/opinion/editorials/article_511fa430-6565-11e4-bfe0-2b34f87298b6.html
Along with other student newspapers across the country, University of FL ran an opinion piece that the conservatives diminishing sexual assault on college campuses (such as George Will) have no idea of the severity of the issue. It is interesting the difference among mainstream conservative and liberal news sources that discuss on campus rape but the wider divide is between the strong passion that smaller publications such as university newspapers and bloggers have versus how mainstream media covers sexual assault on college campuses.
MIT Results Show That Most Victims Don’t Consider Themselves a Victim of Sexual Assault
Out of the 17% of undergraduate women only 10% of them believed they were sexually assaulted. For undergraduate males, 5% experienced some form of sexual assault but only 1% believed they were sexually assaulted.
Victims Usually Blame Themselves
Universities are beginning to launch programs and surveys for students in order to grasp the problem on their own campus. Through this survey universities are realizing that their campus numbers are matching with the nationwide statistics and that victims usually blame themselves a little or don’t entirely blame the attacker.
Students Found Guilty of Sexual Assault Usually Aren’t Kicked Out of School
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/29/campus-sexual-assault_n_5888742.html
Without the help of the police, universities don’t know how to completely handle sexual assault cases. Less than one-third of students guilty of rape were expelled from the university while most students were put on probation. I find there excuse to be appalling- that they don’t want to tell students they can’t come to their school. Universities have been afraid of the bad publicity attached to their schools but because of all this media and government attention in the past few months I think the regulations will become stricter.
Colleges Allow Accused Rapists To Transfer
Colleges can’t stop a student from transferring so students that are under investigation by the school of sexual assault can transfer without the other school knowing. There should be a policy that universities have to tell other universities (or have to ask) if that student that is unusually transferring in the middle of the semester is under disciplinary hearing.
30 More Schools Added To Public List of Colleges Under Federal Investigation
In May, the government published the list of 59 cases that are under investigation for how they handle sexual assault cases. Since October 1st, the list has increased to 89 cases at 88 universities. Some of these cases are a few years old. Students want the government to take immediate action on these schools while the colleges are trying to avoid as much bad publicity as possible.
Sexual Assault on College Campuses 