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DON'T BE ALARMED. BE ON GUARD.Time Person of the Year 2017 – The Silence Breakers
Movie stars are supposedly nothing like you and me. They're svelte, glamorous, self-possessed. They wear dresses we can't afford and live in houses we can only dream of. Yet it turns out that—in the most painful and personal ways—movie stars are more like you and me...
Baylor Fraternity President Charged With Sexual Assault
The 20-year-old Phi Delta Theta president at Baylor University was arrested Thursday on a sexual assault charge for allegedly forcing himself on a woman outside of a fraternity party, Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said. Jacob Anderson was charged after a female...
Lady Gaga brings Oscars audience to tears with empowerment anthem
(Source: CNN) It may have been the most emotional moment of the Oscars. Toward the end of Lady Gaga's impassioned performance of "Til It Happens to You," her Oscar-nominated song about sexual assault, a curtain parted onstage, and dozens of grim-faced young men and...
Ex-Vol alleges Butch Jones called him a ‘traitor’ for helping rape victim
(Source: CBS Sports) In a new sworn affidavit filed as part of lawsuit by six women against the University of Tennessee, it is alleged that Vols coach Butch Jones called one of his players a "traitor" after he helped a woman who alleges she was raped by two other...
Police investigating report of sexual assault at UC Berkeley fraternity house
(Source KRON4) BERKELEY (KRON) — Berkeley police are investigating a report of a sexual assault that allegedly happened at a University of California at Berkeley fraternity house last week, according to police spokeswoman Jennifer Coats. Read more >
Police seek trucker who tried to kidnap stranded female in north Fort Worth
(Source: Star-Telegram) FORT WORTH . Police are looking for witnesses to the attempted kidnapping of a stranded female motorist in far north Fort Worth on Thursday afternoon. The woman told police she was running low on gas and trying to make it to a station when her...
MotherJones.com: 1 in 5 Women Is Sexually Assaulted in College. Just 1 Percent of Attackers Are Punished.
(Source: Mother Jones) At the center of Rolling Stone's searing investigation into sexual assault at the University of Virginia is a disturbing recounting of a drunken gang rape at a frat party. Skeptics have suggested that that particular incident is too bad to be...
Teaching Women Self Defense Still The Best Way To Reduce Sexual Assaults: Study
(Source: The Globe and Mail) A landmark Canadian study instructed participants on how to confront the risk of sexual assault on campus, reports Erin Anderssen. While it’s a partial solution – and an imperfect one – research shows resistance tactics work. Read More...
New York Times: 1 in 4 Women Experience Sex Assault
(Source: New York Times) In four years of college, more than one-fourth of undergraduate women at a large group of leading universities said they had been sexually assaulted by force or when they were incapacitated, according to one of the largest studies of its kind,...
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ESTIMATED PERCENT OF FEMALES SEXUALLY ASSAULTED WHILE IN COLLEGE
CASES OF ANNUAL AGGRAVATED ASSAULT IN THE U.S.
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ESTIMATED PERCENT OF UNREPORTED SEXUAL ASSAULTS
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