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Are Stun Batons a Good Protection Tool?
High Voltage Stun Batons for Self Defense As crime rates continue to rise each day, people are sorting for ways of protecting themselves from the danger. The danger could be another person, wild animals, or dogs. In fact, dog bite cases are also growing at an alarming rate.Which protection tool should you have to be safe on the streets? How do you determine which one is an excellent protection tool? And when you do, is the protection tool affordable? These are some of the few things you need to consider... -
U.S. News & World Report College Rankings And Sexual Assaults on Campus
Here is an op-ed piece on Campus Sexual Assaults and U.S. News & World Report college rankings. Several weeks ago a question was raised about U.S. News & World Report college rankings and whether or not they should include campus sexual assaults. The U.S. News & World Report rankings are a hugely influential factor in how millions of people make college decisions every year. "Brian Kelly, the editor of U.S. News & World Report, just announced that U.S. News will not include campus sexual-assault data in it's annual college ranking... -
TIME: Campuses Called Hazardous Places
In a recent cover story in Time.com on The Sexual Assault Crisis on American Campuses they labeled America's campuses as hazardous places. The truth is, for young women, particularly those who are 18 or 19 years old, just beginning their college experience, America’s campuses are hazardous places. Recent research shows that 1 in 5 women is the victim of an attempted or completed sexual assault during college. That shocking number has students, parents and politicians questioning the way schools protect students and adjudicate the cases of sexual assault. Many people... -
Colleges Get Poor Grades On Campus Assaults
Here's a story from the Huffington Post on the pitiful grades that most colleges got when judged on Campus Assaults. This may be young college students first encounter with the bureaucracy. To combat the red tape and lack of transparency, student activists have called on their peers, allied faculty members, the federal government, and organizations like SAFER to speak out in support of survivors and demand stronger, survivor-oriented college sexual assault policies. The findings of the Campus Accountability Project speak volumes about the deficiencies of existing campus sexual assault policies.... -
Sexual Assaults On Campus-Most Involve Drugs Or Alcohol
Here's a story about campus Sexual Assaults where US representative Pat Meehan R-Delaware, convened regional experts on campus safety last month to discuss the issue and come up with policy recommendations on how to narrow the gap between the number of actually assaulted women and the number who choose to report it. Nearly 20 percent of women attending college are sexually assaulted or victims of an attempted assault, yet only between 5 and 12 percent of them report the attacks. "That gap is staggering," he said. "That amount of victims... -
Female Assaults On College Campuses
Here is another story about Assaults On Women specifically in Missouri where U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill has led a national push to scrutinize rape and sexual assaults of women on college campuses. "There are young women that are victimized every day, every hour, at a college campus somewhere," McCaskill told the News-Leader on Thursday. "Too often young women second-guess themselves. 'I should not have been drinking. I should not have been in his room. I did not know him well enough.' "They do that instead of taking a clear look... -
Berkeley Campus Sexual Assaults
Here is a story out of Business Week Magazine about how College Sexual Assaults are (mis) handled. According to the story four women reported that the same student assaulted them. A school administrator asked that they put their story in writing and submit the stories to the administrator. For one reason or another, the written accounts never got filed. One of the students claim that the verbal accounting of the story should have been enough but the students (complainants) were convinced the school did nothing. The perpetrator was allowed to... -
Campus Intimate Partner Violence Facts
The state of New York published a comprehensive PDF on Intimate Partner Violence which stated that: • "Nearly 80% of females reported at least one incident of physical or sexual aggression by the end of college. • 42% of stalking incidences reported by college women were perpetrated by a current or former intimate partner. • In the US, approximately 1 in 3 young women (estimates up to 35%) are victims of interpersonal violence. • College students face unique obstacles when it comes to IPV, sexual assault, and stalking. • Living...