Sexual Harassment at Arizona State University Introduction Sharon is an undergraduate student at Barrett and has had an intimate relationship with a faculty member at the college. She is scared of revealing her identity even as she seeks justice because she is afraid that the culprit might retaliate by screwing her grades or other damage. She says “I did not exchange sexual favors for grades, but Dr. Bruce coerced me into having sex with him. I was afraid of upsetting him.” “I was concerned that I might upset him, and he might retaliate by awarding me a weak grade in the next paper. He wrote up a nice recommendation for me, so I guess he repaid me in kind.” Sharon finally gathered the confidence to file a formal complaint with the arbitration …show more content…
A survey conducted by the ASU department of student affairs in early 2014 established that around three percent of the female students are victims of sexual assault. Others have experienced a sexual assault on them in the last one year. The survey established that male students also experience sexual assaults but not to the same extent as female students (Anderson, 2014). Further, the survey established that less than one percent of the victims report the assault to the authorities. The most recent sexual crimes report was compiled in 2012 and reported 19 sexual assaults most of which occur in the halls of …show more content…
However, the unique power relationship between lecturers and students creates an environment where subtle coercion can happen (Anderson, 2014). It is important for all ASU students to appreciate the importance of Title IX and especially the concept of “hostile environment.” Lecturers who make sexual advances towards students are effectively creating a hostile environment for the student. Their acts also undermine the duty of the university to provide equal access to education for all students (Anderson, 2014). It is important for students to note that Title IX requires them to file cases within180 days. Further, the statute does not limit the right to file a case to the victims. One can file on behalf of a friend or a peer he or she perceives is experiencing
With one in five college students experiencing sexual assault during their college career who wouldn’t be afraid? This remains especially true for young women between the ages of 18-24 (“The Realities of Sexual Assault”). While a woman’s freshman and sophomore year of college are when she is at a most risk for assault, it can happen at any time. According to Robin Gray in the article on sexual assault statistics, “between 20% and 25% of women will experience a completed and/or attempted rape during their college career,” (Gray). At Northwest Missouri State University for the 2016-2017 academic year there are 5,618 undergraduate students enrolled. With the ratio of male to female students being 44% to 56%, there are about 3,147 female students. In terms of the statistics estimated by Gray, 630-787 of the female student population at Northwest Missouri State will experience rape during their college career (“Northwest Missouri State University”). This is a disturbingly large figure. Women are not the only ones susceptible to these acts, but men are too. It is said about “10%” of all sexual assault cases involve male victims (“The Realities of Sexual Assault”). While this number is slightly lower for men it is often believed that male victims of sexual assault do not often report their crime due to the social stigma surrounding their assault. Men may feel
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When it comes to sexual assault on college campuses there is also the question of what can colleges do to decrease the amount of sexual assaults. Bradford Richardson and Jon A Shields wondered the same thing, so they conducted an ...
Rape is currently on the rise on American college campuses and it is the most common committed crime among college students today. In their time in college 1 out of every 5 women and 1 out of every 71 men will experience some form of sexual harassment as reported by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. These numbers are growing each year and have raised a lot of concern in the administrative level of higher education institutions. In an effort to try and prevent these occurrences universities have begun to implement mandatory curriculum to educate students on the subject and have even begun to hold campus wide events and create clubs to spread awareness and show support because of the repetitive nature of this crime. While it is good
Every semester, a student attending a college campus will have at some point experience some inappropriate, unwanted attention. There is always someone at school who tends to make someone uncomfortable, be it through eye contact, persistent advances, or just uncalled for innuendos. Of course, we do our best to ignore it, or to just report the bothersome activity, but that can only do so much without someone finding a way around such things. Someone is always going the extra mile to get what he or she wants, even if it’s at the expense of the victim. We can’t turn a blind eye on our friends, our family, or our associates in these dark, sexual assault situation. Campus sexual assault is a problem with plenty of factors regarding it.
A survey from the Association of American Universities of 150,000 students found that more than one in four women experience sexual assault during their four years in college. Over the four year college period, 27.2% of female students are victims of unwanted sexual contact that ranges from touching to rape (6). Sexual assault is far too common and it is an epidemic that faces many students in college. Many students suffer from the consequences of sexual assault, which is a result of many social and cultural deficiencies, but it can be fixed through a multifaceted approach. The problem of sexual assault can be fixed through the education of the community, a positive and helpful school environment, and classes focused on prevention.
According to a statement addressing the sexual victimization of college women The Crime and Victimization in America states that, “ One out of four women will be sexually assaulted on a college campus.” This disturbing fact has not minimized throughout the years, instead it is continuing to worsen throughout college campuses. Sexual assault is not an act to be taken lightly. Society must stop pinpointing the individuals who commit these crimes one by one, but rather look at the problem as a whole and begin to understand the main cause of sexual assault and possible methods to reduce these acts of sexual coercion.
Ross Douthat begins by mentioning the series that ran in The Atlantic discussing the policies in place on sexual assault. Campus administrations’ response to sexual assault is getting out of hand and accused assaulters are presumed guilty, instead of innocent until proven guilty, due to political pressure and the fury of the public. Times have changed on university campuses. To increase paying attendance campuses have gone liberal. Dorms have gone from single sex to mingled, allowing young sex crazed adults to mingle at night without the adult supervision.
In society, women are occasionally accused of provoking men based on the way they dress looking vulgar, and seductive, while giving men mixed signals. Students need to be more educated when it comes to sex, consent, alcohol, and drug use. Sexual Assault is an ongoing crime that is common among college campuses. One defines sexual assault as nonconsensual sexual contact or intercourse (Franiuk, 104). As a woman in college, it is frightening to go to school, where there is a possibility of becoming one in five women who are victimized everyday in the United States.
Students should feel safe and protected when reporting an incident to the school’s officials, but sadly this is not the case. Some of the unreported data may be purposefully withheld to make sure the college maintains a healthy reputation. To further explain this, “Schools may be adhering to the letter of the law by reporting only those sexual assault allegations that surface through police, or official student conduct review panels” (CITE). Because of this schools downplay the amount of sexual assault they may have on campuses in fear that it may turn other’s away from their school. However, they can’t fully address or fix the problem unless they know how big of a problem it truly is.
Human sexuality ranges from issues of love, relationships, adult sexual behaviors and attitudes, sexual orientation, sexual assault, sexual variants, sexual transmitted diseases, and so much more. When it comes to Sexual assault it is an issue nationwide, whether some feel that it is an epidemic or not. This paper is going to describe sexual assault among undergraduates, the lack of support victims receives, the campus and community environments, and the results for the victim. While dealing with the offender is important, it is just as important on how the victim is taken care of. Researchers have all come to the common conclusion that though campuses may have the necessary laws, the real question is how the laws are enforced and what consequence’s
The research done by Backes, Fedina, and Holmes concluded that, “Findings among studies measuring unwanted sexual contact…ranged from 1.8% to 34% of college women,” “studies measuring incapacitated rape…ranged from 1.8% to 14.2%,” and “studies measuring sexual coercion…ranged from 1.7% to 32% of women” (11). Research such as this proves that although results from school to school may be varied, there is still a predominant issue of sexual assault that affects about a quarter of the women population on campus. These findings contribute to the claims of the previous article, by providing more data on the frequency of assaults. A good portion of this article agrees with the conversation of campus safety being a problem, however part of this article adds more to the conversation by pointing out the fact that most research done on this topic is mainly sampling white, heterosexual, women in four-year universities. Since there is not much data on minority and nontraditional colleges, the rates of assault could essentially be even higher than what has been calculated so
High rates of sexual assault threaten the image of colleges. In Ladika’s article, she provides statistics from 1995 to 2013 to unravel the cases of sexual assault. She mentions, “A total of 37,846 post-secondary school students between ages 18 and 24 — 31,302 females and 6,544 males — were victims of rape, attempted rape, sexual assault or the threat of rape or sexual assault” (7). Ladika notes the rates of sexual assault to show why colleges reduce the attention to sexual assault cases. Colleges do not want applicants to see the rates of sexual assault because colleges want students to feel safe on campus.
It is often treated as another form of bullying (Sadker, 1999). While this is a good policy, too often the concerns of female students are written off as them being overdramatic or not understanding boys (Hand & Sanchez, 2000). This allows the hostile environment to continue, something that is a clear violation of Title IX (Stone, 2015). After a study into the issue of sexual harassment in schools (van der Zande, 2008), the America Association of University Women developed a resource guide to train students and staff alike in how to prevent and appropriately address sexual harassment. This program addresses the seriousness of the behaviour and empowers students to stand up for themselves and report sexual harassment. It also provides training information for staff on how to recognize sexual harassment among students and how to approach discipline and education of students. Both these components are necessary to fully address the problem of sexual harassment in
Do people know when and how to report Sexual Harassment? Why do you think some people never report it? There are many different types of Sexual Harassment like sexual abuse in men and women, sexual abuse in the military, workplace, colleges and almost everywhere. It is a huge problem everywhere and the issue isn 't brought up as much because it isn 't reported or people who are behind the assault scare victims into believing that they will be in trouble or are embarrassed. Once more women and men start reporting or even just informing more people of what is sexual harassment is, that way they know how and when to report it.