Thursday, March 18, 2010

Sexual Assault on College Campuses Takes the Media Spotlight...

Hi all,

SAPAC staff and students have noticed that several news reports have been commenting on the ineffective way that sexual assault is being handled on college campuses across the US. Here are some of the programs and articles:

NPR Report on Talk of The Nation from December 3rd, 2009:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121057891

Which is part of a bigger "special series" that NPR is doing:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124073905

and most recently, The Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/12/AR2010031201792.html

Most of these reference this study by the The Center for Public Integrity:
http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/campus_assault/

What are some ways that we could use this media attention to educate our campus community? Do you feel UofM handles sexual assault well? What could we be doing better?

-Amy B.

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