Here is an opinion piece about the prevalence of College Sexual Assault on campuses nationwide. It talks about the task force that was recently created by Pres. Obama to attempt to address the issue. The piece makes the point about parents who send their daughters off to college have a lot of things to worry about, but being raped usually isn't one...

This story from the Post-Gazette is an opinion piece about sexual assaults on college campuses. You can read the whole story HERE. The gist of the editorial is that parents have enough to worry about sending their daughter off to college without having to worry about whether or not she will be raped. And of course the young woman is in the...

Although the Federal Clery Act requires U.S. colleges to document and disclose all sexual assaults that occur on their campuses annually, universities can only tabulate reported incidents; and sexual assaults often go unreported. To address the problem, a number of students and experts on sexual violence are pushing universities to conduct comprehensive student surveys. While some schools have been accused of manipulating...

One week ago today Pres. Obama signed a memorandum creating a task force to combat sexual assaults on the nation's college campuses. He gave the task force 90 days to draw some recommendations on how to deal with sexual assaults on college campuses-both on how to prevent them and how people respond to them-specifically law enforcement and University officials. Read the whole...

more info here There is a new law before the California General Assembly that would change the way rapes on or near college campuses are reported. One of the big problems, in our opinion, is that sexual assaults on college campuses have typically been handled by on campus personnel with no outside interference from local police. This has led to a a...

When the California legislature reconvenes in January, assembly member Mike Gatto from Los Angeles is introducing a bill that would amend the state code of education requiring colleges to report sexual assaults that occur on or near college campuses to local police departments. This is a huge change from the way assaults on college campuses are handled now. Now they are either...