Here is an article about what a Dartmouth group is doing to provide protection to female students against Campus Sexual Assaults.
The group claims that Dartmouth does not do enough to protect students. A student was sexually assaulted after her name was posted to an online “rape guide.”
Dartmouth has found itself in the middle of controversy over handling campus rape cases.
“Student groups have asked the school to list expulsion as the punishment for rape in the student handbook and to block campus internet access to the website where the “rape guide” was posted. But school authorities haven’t taken any of these recommendations seriously.
“The crisis of sexual assaults on campus must be stopped. Take student recommendations seriously and expel rapists, list rape as a punishable offense and expulsion as the preferred punishment in the student handbook, and block access to the ‘rape guide’ on campus.”
Dartmouth claims that they investigate every instance of sexual assault reported to the University and offer multiple levels of support and resources to every survivor. A say in this particular case no report of sexual assault had been made.
According to every national study that we have seen nearly one in four female students on a college campus will be sexually assaulted in her time at the University. The assailants are known to the victims and close to 90% of cases and alcohol or drugs is involved in close to 70% of the cases. There is a classic case of under reporting for these crimes with only 10% of them estimated to be ever reported.
If this young lady would’ve had a self-defense product with her and used it she could’ve put her assailant out of action for as much is 45 minutes. We always recommend something that’s on a keychain because that way, it’s more likely to be with you wherever you go.
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Do you carry a self-defense product with you when you’re on campus?
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