1 in 5 women get raped?

The emails, obtained by The Daily Caller through a Freedom of Information request, show UVA campus sexual assault awareness project coordinator Emily Renda informing the university’s PR department about her communications with Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the Rolling Stone reporter.

“I’ve been contacted by a reporter who wants to do a long-form article on campus culture, and wants to use U.Va. as a jumping off point for that discussion,” Renda wrote in a July 16 email to UVA spokesmen McGregor McCance and Anthony Paul de Bruyn.

“She wants to speak primarily with survivors, so I do not anticipate her reaching out to any office for official comment,” continued Renda, who has visited the White House several times to work on campus sexual assault issues and who testified at a Senate hearing on the issue in June.

I’ve been contacted by a reporter who wants to do a long-form article on campus rape culture

Dr. McCall states, "A lesson to be learned from this matter is that media outlets need to more careful when reporting another outlet’s work. Print and broadcast outlets were quick to give the Rolling Stone story legs, repeating the charges and sordid details and giving the story immediate credibility. A more thorough 'sniff test' might have prevented the massive media bandwagon effect, which then contributed to the anger and chaos on the Virginia campus.

"The media vetting process should have started with a look at the writing style of the article in question. It smacks of a writing style now becoming popular at many universities called 'creative non-fiction.' This kind of writing uses the tools of literature to tell news. It has nothing in common with The Associated Press Stylebook. Such a dramatized account of news should have raised caution flags among the traditional media. Additional vetting would have found that the reporter was challenged by the Catholic League three years ago for inaccuracies in a story about the Archdiocese of Philadelphia."

Campus rapes: time to tell kids the truth
by Mark Di Ionno
The Star-Ledger
December 02, 2014

If the police reports are true, depravity is the best word to describe the recent alleged crimes at two New Jersey state campuses, William Paterson University in Wayne and Ramapo College in Mahwah. The details make your skin crawl.

At Ramapo, a girl too drunk to resist is raped at a frat party by two men and videoed by three onlookers, including another woman.

At William Paterson, a girl trapped in a dorm room and forced to have sex with five men. “Oh, word, can I jump on that?” is what one man said who came on the scene while the rape was in progress.

Can I jump on that?

It’s ugly, it’s abhorrent, but it’s nothing new. Generations of women have kept quiet for fear of shame and carried the burden of their attackers’ gleeful dirty little secrets forever.

What is new is the scrutiny. Finally. Treating a victim as “that” has deservedly plagued the military in recent years, while the federal government recently served notice on 60 colleges and universities for failing to accurately report sex assaults in their mandated Clery Act reports, which track crime on campus.

Harvard was one of them, and there is an ongoing investigation of a sex act photographed surreptitiously and shared by members of a Princeton eating club. ...So the tuition price and SAT scores of incoming freshman doesn’t always equate with safety.

So what do you tell a daughter or son before you send them off to school?

You tell them the truth, as you see it, hard as it is, even if it sounds old-fashioned and goes against the grain of current thought.

For girls …

First, stay sober. Girls who pass out drunk get raped. That’s not “blaming the victim.” That’s a fact. When you’re too drunk to impose your will – either by saying ‘no,’ or by force – you relinquish control, and now have to trust people to keep you safe. And, as we see time and time again, it’s not something you can rely on.

Second, trust should be earned, not assumed. Know who to trust. Don’t assume the boys you just met can be trusted, even if they’re friends of friends. Be sure you have girlfriends who won’t walk away and leave you stranded.

Third, lock up. Dorm rooms, off-campus housing. If your roommate is the kind of person who doesn’t lock the door because she “always forgets” her key, find a new roommate.

Fourth, your instincts never lie. If your gut tells you it’s a bad idea, it is. If you feel unsafe, you are.

Stay sober. Girls who pass out drunk get raped. That’s not 'blaming the victim.' That’s a fact."

Fifth, never, ever, ever, spend time with a boy who uses the word “bitch” to describe girls.

And for boys …

First, stay sober. Drunks fight. They vandalize. They assault girls. It’s easier to protect yourself if you’re sober.

Second, act like a man. Men are supposed to protect women, not exploit them.

Third, don’t be a coward. Don’t be a follower. Have the guts and decency to stand up against things you know are wrong, even when you’re outnumbered.

Fourth, nothing good comes from a pack mentality. (See above.)

Fifth, your instincts never lie. If you think the boys are headed for trouble, they are.

And for both …

First, nothing much good happens after 2 a.m. If you want to stay safe, go home.

Second, take those plugs out of your ears and your eyes off the cell phone. It is astounding to see how many kids walk around Rutgers campuses in Newark and New Brunswick, even at night, oblivious to their surroundings. Astounding.

Third, your mistakes are public. They can make the news, they fly through the Twittersphere and Facebook. They stain your family, your community and your school, and you’re just a Google away from those mistakes never being forgotten.

Remember how we raised you, damn it.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2014/12/campus_rapes_time_to_tell_kids_the_truth_di_ionno.html

Your ranting about the RS story might have something to do with poor journalism, but it has nothing to do with the actual rapes being reported on campuses, which you conveniently choose to completely ignore.

At Ramapo, a girl too drunk to resist is raped at a frat party by two men and videoed by three onlookers, including another woman.

So stuff your phony outrage at a poorly checked magazine article,.

and try dealing with the reality that sexual assaults/rapes are occurring on campuses

Teen charged in rape of elderly jogger to be tried as an adult
December 18th, 2014
by Kendi Anderson

Diontae Smartt, 17, will be tried in Hamilton County criminal court on charges of aggravated rape.

Smartt has been charged with raping a 69-year-old man on the North Shore.

Judge Robert Philyaw told Smartt at the conclusion of the hearing, "young man, this is not the end of you. You're 17-years-old and have a lot of life ahead of you."

Philyaw also reminded Smarrt that he will never be tried in juvenile court again.

Bail has been set at $10,000 with geographical limitations and GPS monitoring as bond conditions.

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2014/dec/18/teen-charged-rape-elderly-jogger-be-tried-adult/278798/

The Creepy Misogynist Movement That's Making Conservatives Even More Sexist
http://www.alternet.org/gender/creepy-misogynist-movement-thats-making-conservatives-even-more-sexist

Denying that sexism is a real problem is a standard talking point on the right these days. But recently, it seems that simply denying the existence of sexism is not enough. Instead, conservatives on Fox News and other right-wing outlets seem to want to take it a step further, arguing that, in 21st-century America, women are actually oppressing men. It’s similar to the long-standing habit of many on the right to declare themselves victims of “reverse racism.”

In this case, many of the tropes and obsessions come directly from a fringe, online movement that calls itself “men’s rights activism." MRA rhetoric is notable for being intensely paranoid, seeing women as a subversive group that is out to get men. They argue that feminism--particularly feminism that addresses the problem of violence against women--is not an egalitarian movement as advertised, but a darkly evil movement that invents the problems of sexism, rape and domestic violence in order to gain power over men. It’s all very silly and hard to take seriously, except that some of the rhetorical gambits of MRAs are actually being trotted out by supposedly mainstream conservatives. The result is that the already misogynist right is getting even more misogynist.

Of course this is not to suggest that most such accounts are fabricated; but they are also filtered through subjective experience, memory, and personal bias. Yet, for at least three years, these stories been accorded virtually uncritical reception by the mainstream media. When I had a chance to investigate one widely publicized college case—that of Brown University students Lena Sclove and Daniel Kopin—for a feature in The Daily Beast, the facts turned out to bear little resemblance to the media narrative of a brutal rape punished with a slap on the wrist.

Now, in what may be another sign of turning tides, the accused in another high-profile case is getting his say. The New York Times has previously given ample coverage to Emma Sulkowicz, the Columbia University student famous for carrying around a mattress to protest the school’s failure to expel her alleged rapist. Now, it has allowed that man, Paul Nungesser, to tell his story—a story of being ostracized and targeted by mob justice despite being cleared of all charges in a system far less favorable to the accused than criminal courts. No one knows whether Sulkowicz or Nungesser is telling the truth; but the media have at last acknowledged that there is another side to this story.

Will 2015 see a pushback against the anti-“rape culture” movement on campus? If so, good. This is a movement that has capitalized on laudable sympathy for victims of sexual assault to promote gender warfare, misinformation and moral panic. It’s time for a reassessment.



Read more: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/12/23/the_crusade_against_rape_culture_stumbles_125049.html#ixzz3N5743YvB
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We will almost certainly never know for sure what actually happened to Jackie, the troubled young woman at the center of the now-discredited Rolling Stone tale of rape and impunity at the University of Virginia that riveted the nation for two weeks before it came apart. She may be a mentally ill fantasist; she may have experienced a less brutal sexual assault and either deliberately exaggerated or sincerely reimagined it as the grotesque horror she recounted to writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely; she may have suffered some other trauma. Many fear that the story’s undoing may hurt the credibility of real rape victims, and one can only hope that doesn’t happen. But the UVA fiasco should destroy the credibility of the feminist crusade against “rape culture,” whose virulent zealotry and disregard for truth have been starkly exposed by this scandal.

The uncritical rush to embrace of Rolling Stone story attests to the toxic climate created by this crusade. Erdely’s article should have quickly set off alarm bells (mine went off on the second reading). The preplanned initiation-ritual gang rape in which “Clockwork Orange”-level ultraviolence meets “Silence of the Lambs” (“Grab its motherf-----g leg,” yells one of the men); the reaction of the victim’s friends who see her disheveled and bloodied yet talk her out of going to the police or to the hospital because being “the girl who cried rape” would carry a social stigma; the nonchalance of the frat boy who casually chats her up shortly after engineering the attack—it all seems highly implausible, reading more like a rape-culture morality tale than a factual account.
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Yes, rape happens—on campuses and elsewhere. Methodologically sound surveys by the Bureau of Justice Statistics have found that from 1995 to 2002, an average of about six per 1,000 female college students a year became victims of sexual assault. Assuming that a woman’s risk of being assaulted is the same in every year of college, that means two to three percent of female students become victims over the course of their school years. That’s nothing to be dismissive about. But it is hardly an epidemic, or a pervasive “culture of rape.”

Let us by all means have victim advocacy—fact-based, and capable of supporting women or men who report sexual assaults without trying to destroy the presumption of innocence. But let’s say no to the witch-hunts. If the UVA debacle brings back some sanity on the subject of rape, the hoax will have actually served a good cause—just not the one its promoters intended.




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Silly doesn't even begin to describe them....

this is not an argument that will work on sane people after all of the hours of labor you have put in trying to knock down my arguments.

Again you show a profound lack of respect for the intelligence of A2K members.

given ample coverage to Emma Sulkowicz, the Columbia University student famous for carrying around a mattress to protest the school’s failure to expel her alleged rapist

Can you see a male student getting away with such harassments aimed at a female student!!!!!!

We see here another instance of how those who adopt the victim tag for themselves can get away with most anything, including at times cold blooded premeditated murder.

What the feminists do and believe must be justified by the current reality, not their grievances of past acts, which for the most part are so far in the past that they never happened to women who are currently living...

we are all familiar with the common abuse/victim cycle, where those who are victimized turn into abusers, are we not?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/30/harvard-law-harassment-title-ix_n_6396350.html

]Harvard Law Gave More Rights To Accused Students In Sexual Harassment Cases, Feds Find
Posted: 12/30/2014 2:35 pm EST Updated: 58 minutes ago HARVARD LAW
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Harvard Law School violated federal law by giving more rights to accused students than to accusers in sexual harassment and assault cases, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights announced Tuesday.

The decision closes one of the longest-standing federal investigations into allegations that a school was violating the gender equity law Title IX in its handling of sexual harassment and rape cases. The investigation of Harvard Law began in December 2010, and ended on Dec. 23 with a resolution agreement stipulating action items the school must take under federal monitoring. The department announced the agreement Tuesday and sent a letter of its findings to the school.

A separate Title IX probe of Harvard College -- the undergraduate school at the Cambridge, Massachusetts, campus -- is still ongoing. Harvard College is now one of 91 colleges still under investigation for sexual violence issues, up from 52 when the undergraduate school's review started in late April.

The Education Department's findings against Harvard Law were similar to the concerns the department flagged when OCR closed Princeton University's investigation in November.

Harvard Law afforded more post-hearing rights to accused students in sexual harassment and assault cases than to students who were alleging they were harmed, OCR found. If a student was facing dismissal or expulsion for allegedly committing a sexual assault, he or she had the opportunity to call and question witnesses during a supplemental hearing process, the OCR said. Accusers in the cases did not receive the same opportunity.

According to the Education Department, Harvard Law did not appropriately handle two student complaints of sexual assault.

In one instance, federal officials found, the Law School took 13 months to make its final determination in the case. During that time, the accused student was provided a supplemental hearing with representation by counsel and was allowed to provide testimony, while the complainant was not. In the end, the school reversed its initial decision to dismiss the accused student and dismissed the reporting student's complaint.

The feds also faulted Harvard Law for using a “clear and convincing” evidence standard of proof in sexual assault cases. OCR said this policy was "inconsistent" with the preponderance of the evidence standard -- more likely than not to have occurred -- which the Education Department noted is "required by Title IX for investigating allegations of sexual harassment or violence."

Wendy Murphy, the attorney who filed the initial complaint against Harvard Law in 2010, said she hopes Tuesday's announcement will have a ripple effect nationwide.

"When Harvard gets in trouble, everyone pays attention, and unlike changes at lower-tiered schools, change at the top trickles down, so it's a particularly important case," Murphy said.

OCR said it will monitor Harvard Law's implementation of new university-wide policies on sexual misconduct, ensuring that they afford appeal rights to both parties and provide a timeframe for resolving cases, in compliance with Title IX.

Catherine E. Lhamon, assistant secretary for civil rights, credited in a statement the "strong leadership" of Harvard President Drew Faust and Law School Dean Martha Minow for bringing about the resolution agreement signed on Dec. 23, "for which I know their students will benefit significantly."

The resolution agreement stipulates Harvard Law must expressly state that victims can pursue a criminal investigation, in addition to filing a complaint with the school. The college must also provide more staff training on Title IX, conduct annual climate assessments, and review all cases of sexual harassment filed during the 2012-13 and 2013-14 school years.

The letter sent from the Education Department to Harvard Law marks the sixth time OCR officials determined in 2014 in a review examining sexual violence cases that a higher education institution violated Title IX.

The decision comes after Harvard Law instituted a new sexual assault policy earlier this year. Faculty at the school criticized the policy in an October op-ed in the Boston Globe for a lacking "the most basic elements of fairness and due process," and being "overwhelmingly stacked against the accused." Student activists also spoke out against the policy, saying that it still put victims at a disadvantage.

On Tuesday, OCR said the new policies had fixed some of the errors that federal officials found, including adopting the standard of evidence currently mandated by Title IX.

In a letter from Harvard Law Dean Martha Minow to the campus community Tuesday, she noted the resolution agreement recognizes the school has already taken steps "to redress the shortcomings identified by the Department, and that the University’s current policy and our procedures for handling allegations of sexual misconduct move us in the right direction."

Minow said Harvard plans to submit new sexual assault policies to OCR that are specific to the law school, and that the school is "confident that the new University policy and the Law School's new procedures comply with Title IX."

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