A List of College Football Rape Cases

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At the Atlantic today, I have a piece on NCAA regulations, hostess programs, and gang rape in college football. I’m supplementing that article here on Power Forward.

1: The Vanderbilt Football Rape Case

2. The Naval Academy Football Rape Cases

3. The Montana University and BYU Football Rape Cases

I’m sure that the following list is incomplete.

These are the cases that we know about. As I said in my piece:

One in five women on a given college campus will be raped, 85 percent of those women will know their attackers, and 90 percent of those rapes will go unreported.

And the problem of sexual assault on college campuses is dire. According to MSN News last month, “students at 29 universities…have brought legal action, accusing institutions of negligence in the handling of reports of sexual violence and violating Title IX, a 1972 law protecting students from discrimination driven by gender.”

According to Benedict and Keteyian in The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football:

Scarcely a year goes by without one or more college football programs being rocked by sexual assault charges. In 2012, players at five BCS schools were charged with sex crimes.
THE LIST:
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Read 'em and weep:
http://pwrfwd.net/2013/09/26/a-list-of-college-football-rape-cases/

I do mean weep. WTF is wrong with people?
And as pointed out, it's a problem at universities in general. Google and you will find schools such as UConn, Yale, Columbia and others with complaints against them now.

What if it were your daughter, sister, friend.....?

[Squinch]

1. College football is a perfect storm of unbounded entitlement, unbounded patriarchy and mob

mentality. In such a culture, it is not surprising that some should consider women to be objects for their use.

[Vattel]

2. When I was at Kansas State University,

a football player committed a sexual battery but was still allowed to play. The coach said it was better to keep him in the system. My friend had a beer bottle thrown at her because she refused to dance with a football player. Another friend admitted that, as a university tutor, he was expected to write papers for football players. Football players had a special bogus major designed to be really easy. As one player put it, referring to the college town of Manhattan, "We own this shit."

[radicalliberal]

3. No comments from outrraged football fans?

I wonder why. . . .