Posted on 01/22/2014 8:58:08 AM PST by kristinn
President Barack Obama is launching an initiative to combat sexual assault, particularly on college campuses, turning the spotlight on a problem that has devastated millions of Americans yet rarely receives such White House attention.
Obama planned to sign a presidential memorandum Wednesday creating a task force to protect students from sexual assault, with a new White House report declaring that no one in America is more at risk of being raped or assaulted than college women. The report, "Rape and Sexual Assault: A Renewed Call to Action," says that 1 in 5 women have been sexually assaulted at college but that only 12 percent of student victims report the assault.
The report was compiled by the White House Council on Women and Girls and was being released Wednesday, but the White House provided an advance copy to The Associated Press. It says nearly 22 million American women and 1.6 million men have been raped in their lifetimes, with victims more likely to suffer from depression, substance abuse and a wide range of physical ailments, including chronic pain and diabetes.
The report says rape's prevalence is highest at college, fueled by drinking and drug use that can incapacitate victims. Obama is giving the task force of administration officials 90 days to come up with recommendations for colleges to prevent and respond to sexual assault, increase public awareness of each school's track record and enhance coordination among federal agencies to hold schools accountable if they don't confront the problem.
(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...
Great; get rid of “student athletes” that can’t read, and the problem is solved. Academia’s dirty secret...
1) remove the unconstitutional ban on weapons on campus
2) continue all laws making marijuana illegal...regardless of age
next question please?
This is just show from Obama...the big problem is black male on white female rape...and Obama gonna side with the dark side
I guess the concept of consent is just another obsolete Judeo-Christian value. Stupid dead white men.
I thought that he was “focused like a laser beam” on jobs. Or was that Income Inequality? Or was that “Gay Rights”?
Did Obama ever stop to think that all his sexually suggestive Obamacare advertising aimed at the college age kids was wrong? No. Too much to ask of Obama.
These are the same people who claim everyone else are just out-dated puritans. No, it is we who must pick up the pieces from the lying, corrupt left.
I thought Pickler was dead! Yet she live! She lives!
Will he be trying to break a record?
I've seen the questionnaires they use, and any woman who has ever had sex with someone and then later had a falling out is going to answer in a way that will fall under their definition of sexual assault.
On a different note, Obama is really grasping for relevance now, trying to hit every wicket and holy cow of the overly concerned Left. Are we supposed to take seriously the notion that a coed at FSU is at a higher risk of rape that a girl living in the Chicago projects?
I thought it was immigration reform that’s supposed to receive his laser-beam-like focus this year.
Oh great! Another manufactured “epidemic.” What rights are we about to lose now?
“Concealed carry” would probably vastly help in this situation.
Even the muscular superjocks understand all parts of “No” when looking at the business end of a .38 Smith & Wesson.
Tasers are not nearly so imposing, but the use of one pretty much works for impulse control.
Small arms training should be a required course in the freshman year on every campus which has even one incident in the previous five years. And that is practically every one of them.
“Pistol Packing Mama” is a concept that goes back to my youth. And probably quite a while before that.
I think you got it - the ONLY student rapes that occurred while I was in college were perpetrated by “athletes” on “scholarship”.
Why no breakdown on what percentage is heterosexual vs. what percentage is homosexual?
Same reason they keep the breakdown secret for the military?
I live down the road a piece from Michigan State and I see their perpetual insanity all too often.
After a series of rapes on campus, police suggested that women not be out walking alone a 3 AM and drunk. Feminazis were naturally outraged and organized a slutwalk to protest the misogynistic attitudes.
Change the message encouraged by fraternities. It’s a message of “Girls, Sex, Drugs, Booze, etc.”
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