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.
