By Juliet Eilperin
Last month, (click here) Vice President Biden penned a searing letter to the victim in a notorious Stanford University rape case. “I am filled with furious anger,” he wrote, “both that this happened to you and that our culture is still so broken.”
Biden’s letter encapsulated the national outrage that erupted when the woman’s attacker was sentenced to just six months in county jail. It was also a sharp reminder that one of the Obama administration’s most ardent policy initiatives has been a concerted campaign to end the scourge of sexual assault on college campuses.
According to White House officials, top members of the administration — including the president, the vice president, their wives and members of the Cabinet — will not visit institutions whose leaders they consider insufficiently serious about pursuing sexual-assault allegations and punishing perpetrators. Biden said in an interview that he would like the federal government to “take away their money” if a college or university fails to change its ways....
The statistics on Sexual Assault on USA College Campuses aren't accurate enough to support the idea the attacker is a victim of the woman that reports the CRIME.
By Maria Danilova
Washington — The Trump administration (click here) on Friday scrapped Obama-era guidance on investigating campus sexual assault, replacing it with new interim instructions allowing universities to decide which standard of evidence to use when handling complaints.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has said the Obama rules were unfairly skewed against the students accused of assault....
Where are the facts that have just turned back women's rights by five decades? I suppose the best example of the danger women face from the Trump administration when it comes to sexual assault is the President himself. Isn't that right Ms. DeVos? Any crotch grabbing in the halls of the Cabinet? I suppose it is a back-handed compliment in some circles.
September 21, 2017
By Nora Caplan-Bricker
...This stymied, (click here) vaguely apologetic sentiment appears so often in the report that it becomes a refrain. Across the 27 schools, the rate of students who reported nonconsensual sexual contact involving force or incapacitation (as opposed to coercion or lack of affirmative consent, two other categories the researchers used) varied from 13 percent to 30 percent. For undergraduates, private universities had a higher rate than public ones (25.3 percent versus 22.8 percent); for graduate and professional students, that trend was reversed. Don’t ask why....
September 21, 2017
By Nora Caplan-Bricker
...This stymied, (click here) vaguely apologetic sentiment appears so often in the report that it becomes a refrain. Across the 27 schools, the rate of students who reported nonconsensual sexual contact involving force or incapacitation (as opposed to coercion or lack of affirmative consent, two other categories the researchers used) varied from 13 percent to 30 percent. For undergraduates, private universities had a higher rate than public ones (25.3 percent versus 22.8 percent); for graduate and professional students, that trend was reversed. Don’t ask why....
