Universities Under Investigation Re: Handling Sexual Assault

[SydneyK]

Originally Posted by honorgal

I find it hard to believe anyone would want their college age daughters to accept this message of passivity, ambivalence and victimhood that's being pressed by today's feminists. What a mockery.

Why the crusade, honorgal? Clearly, you feel a need to discuss this ad nauseam, but why you feel such a need is beyond me. No one here has said they want their college age daughters to accept this message; no one here (but you) has labeled this situation as a 'crisis'; no one here (but you) keeps bringing up (bumping) the discussion just to figuratively say, "there's nothing to see here, so stop talking about it!" I just don't get it. Do you need to get something off your chest? Did one of your sons get falsely accused of rape or something?

I'm not trying to be combative, I'm just trying to understand where you're coming from. When someone gets on a soapbox the way you have, they tend to provide some background for perspective. Otherwise, it just seems like an unwarranted rant.

[honorgal]

Originally Posted by SydneyK

Why the crusade, honorgal? Clearly, you feel a need to discuss this ad nauseam, but why you feel such a need is beyond me. No one here has said they want their college age daughters to accept this message; no one here (but you) has labeled this situation as a 'crisis'; no one here (but you) keeps bringing up (bumping) the discussion just to figuratively say, "there's nothing to see here, so stop talking about it!" I just don't get it. Do you need to get something off your chest? Did one of your sons get falsely accused of rape or something?

I'm not trying to be combative, I'm just trying to understand where you're coming from. When someone gets on a soapbox the way you have, they tend to provide some background for perspective. Otherwise, it just seems like an unwarranted rant.

Hmmm, I guess I assumed, from the subject matter of this board that some posters were at least tangentially interested in today's college campuses. The navel gazing is interesting, to say the least.

And I'm going to assume that you are being deliberately obtuse by mischaracterizing what I'm saying (figuratively or not) that there's "nothing to see here so stop talking about it." The media and activists keep insisting there is a crisis, ad nauseum. (ie, the reaction to Miss USA). The federal government is reacting to "the crisis" in typical fashion....more nonsensical regulations, more beauracrats, more sensitivity training, more money spent on fluff that drives up the cost of tuition. Does one have to have a hidden agenda to react negatively to that?

For the record, I don't. Two sons and neither of them have ever been accused of anything. I do have a perspective that some of you probably don't have, having a front row seat to a college campus environment.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by honorgal

I do have a perspective that some of you probably don't have, having a front row seat to a college campus environment.

Anyway......

As for anything new, Dr. Phil, two things:

1) Five schools added to the list: University of Alaska system, the University of Delaware, Elmira College in New York, the University of Akron in Ohio and Cisco Junior College in Texas.

2) Some schools have released responses. At least one school is claiming this is just a routine audit:

http://news.iu.edu/releases/iu/2014/...tigation.shtml

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

As for anything new, Dr. Phil, two things:

1) Five schools added to the list: University of Alaska system, the University of Delaware, Elmira College in New York, the University of Akron in Ohio and Cisco Junior College in Texas.

2) Some schools have released responses. At least one school is claiming this is just a routine audit:

http://news.iu.edu/releases/iu/2014/...tigation.shtml

Originally Posted by SydneyK

Dr. Phil, in an attempt to bring something new to the discussion, are you familiar with the University of Kentucky's green dot/VIP program?

http://www.uky.edu/StudentAffairs/VIPCenter/learn_greendot.php

Thank you.