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6.18.15 | Allison McCarthy
There’s no getting around it: campus rape is a national epidemic. We can no longer bury our collective heads in the sand and pretend that the sexual assault of college students isn’t a major crisis. A recent Brown University study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health featuring interviews with 483 first-year female college students reports that “19% of women, nearly one in five, said they had been a victim of attempted or completed rape, either by force or while they were incapacitated due to alcohol or drugs, during their freshman year.”
But popular essayist Meghan Daum appears to have grown weary of the topic. In her column for the Los Angeles Times, Daum claims that a “new generation of feminists only look inward instead of out at the big world… I hope the wounded women at our colleges and universities find a way to heal themselves and then get to work in the places they’re needed most. I hope they take all the passion, anger and energy they’ve applied to making college administrators figure out when yes means yes and no means no, and harness it to address problems far beyond their own.”
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