Campus Consent In College
Campus Consent
As a senior, I am excited to finally grow up and head off to college, gaining some freedom of my own! I get to live on my own without my parents watching my every move and telling me what to do all the time and when to do it. Although, while being excited and anxious for my new journey, I am quite concerned. According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, lower classmen, such as freshmen and sophomores, are more at risk for victimization of sexual assault than upper classmen, such as juniors and seniors. As a senior in high school, I need to be prepared and take precaution to keep myself safe on my soon to be college campus and home.
Sexual assault is becoming more of an issue at the college level and as an incoming …show more content…
He led her outside behind a dumpster and forced himself on to her, leaving scrapes and cuts along her backside and arms from the gravel and pine needles in her hair. Two bikers chased the man off of her body and call authorities to take her to medical care. " I don’t sleep when I think about the way it could have gone if the two guys had never come" (Baker). This is the infamous Brock Turner case, nearly everyone in the United States has heard the story or at least heard the attackers name, but this is only one case out of the thousands that have happened within American college campuses. Sexual assault can happen to anyone, anywhere, at any time. Generally some guys may think "this can't happen to me". While a majority of sexual assault victims are female, it can certainly happen to a male. September 5, 2011 around five a.m., on Andrew's sixth night of his freshmen year at Brown University he was sexually assaulted by a male in the bathroom stall. The assaulter flirted and pursued Andrew relentlessly to where is wasn’t an option any longer (Kassie). So how do we protect ourselves from this happening? Most students know the standard answer from what their guardians, family members and friends have told them: watch your drink and where …show more content…
Colleges need to provide self defense classes and education of how to keep safe with environments faced on campus so students are prepared if faced with an attack. Knowing not all sexual assault can be stopped, universities need to have an action plan for students who have found their selves victimized by sexual assault. Professional counselors need to be readily available to students who have experienced trauma within school grounds. In addition, college administration should have to report any and all sexual assault cases brought to them by students, this could help lower the amount of cases in the future for fear of
As a senior, I am excited to finally grow up and head off to college, gaining some freedom of my own! I get to live on my own without my parents watching my every move and telling me what to do all the time and when to do it. Although, while being excited and anxious for my new journey, I am quite concerned. According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, lower classmen, such as freshmen and sophomores, are more at risk for victimization of sexual assault than upper classmen, such as juniors and seniors. As a senior in high school, I need to be prepared and take precaution to keep myself safe on my soon to be college campus and home.
Sexual assault is becoming more of an issue at the college level and as an incoming …show more content…
He led her outside behind a dumpster and forced himself on to her, leaving scrapes and cuts along her backside and arms from the gravel and pine needles in her hair. Two bikers chased the man off of her body and call authorities to take her to medical care. " I don’t sleep when I think about the way it could have gone if the two guys had never come" (Baker). This is the infamous Brock Turner case, nearly everyone in the United States has heard the story or at least heard the attackers name, but this is only one case out of the thousands that have happened within American college campuses. Sexual assault can happen to anyone, anywhere, at any time. Generally some guys may think "this can't happen to me". While a majority of sexual assault victims are female, it can certainly happen to a male. September 5, 2011 around five a.m., on Andrew's sixth night of his freshmen year at Brown University he was sexually assaulted by a male in the bathroom stall. The assaulter flirted and pursued Andrew relentlessly to where is wasn’t an option any longer (Kassie). So how do we protect ourselves from this happening? Most students know the standard answer from what their guardians, family members and friends have told them: watch your drink and where …show more content…
Colleges need to provide self defense classes and education of how to keep safe with environments faced on campus so students are prepared if faced with an attack. Knowing not all sexual assault can be stopped, universities need to have an action plan for students who have found their selves victimized by sexual assault. Professional counselors need to be readily available to students who have experienced trauma within school grounds. In addition, college administration should have to report any and all sexual assault cases brought to them by students, this could help lower the amount of cases in the future for fear of