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Works Cited

Bennett, Jessica. "Fraternity Misogyny Goes on Long After Graduation."Time.  Time, 3 Dec. 2014. Web. 17 Dec. 2015.

Caroll, Kelsey. "Fraternity Signs Promote Rape Culture, Elicit                Outrage."Feminist Majority Foundation Blog. Feminist Majority Foundation  Blog, 25 Aug. 2015. Web.

Gray, Eliza. "University Survey Highlights Role of 'Verbal Coercion' in Sexual    Assault." Time. Time, 25 June 2015. Web. 17 Dec. 2015.

MacDonald, Soraya Nadia. "It’s Hard to Ignore a Woman Toting a Mattress  Everywhere She Goes, Which Is Why Emma Sulkowicz Is Still Doing    It."Washington Post. The Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2014. Web. 17 Dec. 2015.

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Victim’s Burden

Emma Sulkowicz, a student at Columbia University, has created quite a crowd from her social experiment of carrying around a mattress everyday until her school correctly deals with her rapist. Emma carries around this mattress everyday as the symbolism of the burden she feels as a victim of campus rape. Everyday, she feels that she has to carry this on her shoulders until the school takes her rapist out of the school. Her boldness is striking as she exemplifies a true spirit of strength and resilience even with such a tremendous trauma. Not only does this give others a clear example of a growing problem, it teaches those around her a lesson. According to Sulkowicz’s own rules, she cannot seek help to carry the mattress but will accept help if it is offered to her. The symbolism of this action shows that she does not want to burden others with her own struggle but rather show a way to work out of it with one another. She wants others to see the struggle that she carries with her everyday in a way that makes them understand why campus rape should be dealt with better. In the end, the decision is influenced by our own ideas and motivations of striving for a better world of education for both men and women.

Source: The Washington Post

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One in five women have reported experiencing an attempted or completed assault while in college.

The Campus Sexual Assault Study

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“I am not free while any women is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”

- audre lorde

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This opinion piece reflects my idea of campus rape being fixed by a social change. Although hard to obtain, we can no longer be set back by the misogyny that forces others to act recklessly and endangers the rights of the individual. Women or men, we are all human beings with the right to live freely and be educated in a safe and tolerant environment

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Fraternity Rape

A fraternity from Old Dominion University in Virginia display their promotions of rape culture on campus. When I see this photo, I am utterly disgusted by the nerve that these men have to display such evil. However I think back to a past quote of mine “No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.” The men in these fraternity are being bombarded by loads of peer pressure to act a certain masculine way that can force them to say such things that they might not truly believe in. The fact is that there are “within-group attitudes” that fraternities hold promote this horrifying sexual coercion. A study in 2007, by John Foubert, claims that men in fraternities are more likely to rape than others because of this idealized promotion within fraternities. Not only do women suffer because of campus rape, but we are revealed to the insider’s voice where they too suffer with intense peer pressure and danger. Seeing this dark side of fraternities changes the way we think about fixing campus sexual assault. It is no longer just a matter of the authorities but a pure social change itself.

Source: feminist.org

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To better understand the issue of sexual assault on college campuses, we break down the research, studies and polls.

Interesting statistics 

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If not me, who? If not now, when?

Emma Watson, speech to the HeForShe (via sophielofy)

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Here’s what politics looks like if you take out the men 

Out of the 22 people running for president in 2016, only two of them are women. Elle U.K. is confronting this imbalance directly through the magazine’s #MoreWomen campaign, launched on Oct. 1 to celebrate women’s global power. Their eye-opening launch video shows how easy it is to make full rooms seemingly sparse.

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Campus Rape: The Detriment of Education

Campus Rape is an ongoing problem in today’s society. It is the act of a victim being raped at college by other students through mainly verbal coercion, intoxication, or threat. A recent Washington Post–Kaiser Family Foundation poll of a random sample of 1,053 women and men who were students at a four-year college, or had been at some point since 2011, found that 25% of young women experienced “unwanted sexual incidents” in college. Whether this rape comes from fraternity parties or even peer pressure, it must be stopped. The biggest factor is that the administration of these universities do not execute the cases out well to ensure a justified dealing with the situation at hand. Some colleges even will ignore the issue by deeming it as a norm within fraternal state. This is absolutely wrong in all ways possible.  As illustrated by the photo above, a college student never signs up for the college experience to get assaulted and traumatized for the rest of their life. As women, we have finally found equal rights in education but this sets us down another step. The majority of campus rape incidents happen to women which endangers us just by stepping into a campus to learn. When we sign up for education, we should be involved in a safe environment to learn and to simply live the education that we are granted. Because of campus sexual assault, this right is being taken away from us and the education we gain cannot be applied to the real world when our worlds have been attacked and traumatized. It is due that these colleges and universities open their eyes and receive these issues in a more progressive way to protect the right of everyone as students to learn in a safe environment where education is a privilege that cannot be taken away.

Photo Source: Time.com

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“Rape is rape and the sooner universities make that clear, the sooner we can make progresses on campus.”

Joe Biden

Biden, Duncan highlight new federal guidance on campus sex assault probes - The Center for Public Integrity

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At school, I learned that books and friends are the best thing a girl could ask for. Education is essential to human progress and deserves to be fair amongst all people regardless of gender. #62milliongirls

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Wise words.