Sexual Assault On College Campus Essay

Sexual Assault on College Campuses is one of the most terrifying things to think about, so how do we face the issue, we don’t. According to Vogue Magazine 1 in 5 college women are raped within the first 2 years of their college education. Instead college administrations shake it off as if it's nothing. Lizzy Seeberg, Notre Dame. Raped at a fraternity party and told by her rapists freind after reporting “Don’t do anything you would regret. Messing with Notre Dame football is a bad idea”. Her rapist was a friend that she knew well. When interviewed her dad recalled her saying “the rape was bad, but the way I was treated was worse”. In the section of “The Hunting Ground” about Lizzy Seeberg, students said, “ The SAE fraternity stands for ”SEXUAL

She took her life on September 10, 2010, because of the backlash and not being able to deal with the pain. This is nothing new to our society but sadly we turn a blind eye to it. Sexual assault on college campuses is a seerious problem that has finally come to the surface within the last 20 years but recognized more and more recently. This is because as we’ve grown in our society victims have been willing to speak up. In one aspect universities are not doing enough to prevent and deal with sexual assault cases, but in the other hand universities are doing all they can. One of the most surfaced cases of sexual assault on college campuses is that of Chanel Miller and Brock Turner. Chanel Miller tells her story through her memoir, Know My Name. Chanel Miller recounts the traumatic experience of being sexually assaulted by Brock Turner, a former Stanford University student. Throughout the book, Miller shares her path of healing and process of reclaiming her identity after the assault, as well as how she stands up for survivors of sexual assault. Miller’s writing goes into extreme detail and she recounts her experience to the most truthful account and its aftermath. People v. Turner was the trial of the sexual assault of Chanel

Many students don’t understand the extreme seriousness of sexual assault or even consider what behavior is acceptable. Along with the Administration not taking cases and telling victims there's nothing they can do or just not doing anything when they actually can. Rape on campuses isn’t new, in fact it’s horrifically common. One out of five young women who attend college will be sexually assaulted. For the longest time and still currently the problem is rationalized, and in a sense accepted. Alcohol is everywhere, hormones are pumping, and stuff just happens. Sometimes those things are bad, but you have to learn to live with that, like living with the possibility of anything. At the University of North Carolina, two girls, Annie Clark and Andrea Pino, were sexually assaulted and both told that there wasn’t anything the Administration could do. So they took actions into their own hands. They found Title IX (9), which states “No person in the United states shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.” Which means that If the school is found in violation of Title IX in the government has the power to revoke all federal funds. Clark and Pino sent their complaint to the U.S. Department of Education and a few weeks later they had a response. They were told they had opened an