Sen. Claire McCaskill, Democrat from Missouri, led the way to change the way the military handles sexual assaults, is now turning attention to Campus Sexual Assaults. In a town hall meeting recently, she announced that sexual assaults are even more underreported in colleges than they are in the military. “I’m looking at what college campuses are doing in terms of keeping statistics,...

This is a story about Campus Sexual Assaults and why so few of them are reported. It also suggests, for the first time that we've seen in writing, something that we have been talking about for years-that the University get out of the investigation and prosecution of these serious crimes and leave it to a professional law enforcement agency. However, experts say...

Recently U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal D-Conn. met with the University of St. Joseph students, professors and staff and talked about the need for cultural change regarding Campus Sexual Assaults. This was the third roundtable discussion that Sen. Blumenthal has had about sexual assaults on college campuses. He hopes to shape legislation and propose funding for programs that might help prevent it and...

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...