First off, I must say that there is scanty action here at Learning Curve, which is a bummer. I do hope that my friendly contributors will pick up some slack this week (ahem, yes you!) I wanted to post a few links here for further reading, both have to do with gender in universities and both can be found at Inside Higher Education: first here, then here.
In an effort to help you keep on keeping on, read these articles and formulate a response to one of them. I would shoot for roughly 200 words or so--
In Solidarity,
Dr. Fem
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So in response to this Do They Ever Learn? article I have three immediate reactions. The first thought that comes to mind is How is this still going on without any (serious) punishment to the offending parties (particularly athletes are the ones that manage to squirm out of punishment it seems)? Secondly I am appalled that the upper authorities in school organizations still let this matter go by the wayside and try to keep it under wraps and hidden from the public. I understand that no one wants to bring shame to their institution but if it was made public that there was such an event and that the school took swift and serious action against the offender(s) this would surely gain a positive response from the public. Third I don't understand why, after all of these stories about this type of action being handled so nonchalantly and swept under the rug, victims need to go straight to the real police - not this clown cop campus police nonsense that is paid by the school and therefore puts its interests before anyone - but the real Police Department and get some serious action taken against offenders. I would really like to see schools take a stand against this kind of abuse because there are not too many other actions quite as deplorable, disgusting, or harmful as sexually assaulting a person but clearly having a good football/basketball team to bring in big crowds, ticket sales, and revenue for the school trumps a persons right to feel safe and secure.
very nicely put!
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