Biden speaks out on Women's Rights again - this time to college students.

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No Means No!

The vice president is speaking out on behalf of an Education Department initiative to address problems like rape and sexual violence on schools across the nation, launched in the wake of a Title IX complaint filed by a group of Yale students last month. Biden elevated the issue with a passionate speech to undergraduates at the University of New Hampshire on Monday, and joined a conference call with university presidents and reporters Wednesday.

“Look guys – all you guys in the audience – no matter what a girl does, no matter how she’s dressed, no matter how much she’s had to drink – it’s never, never, never, never, never okay to touch her without her consent,” Biden told a rapt crowd on the Durham, N.H. campus. “This doesn’t make you a man – it makes you a coward. A flat-out coward.”


Alexandra Brodsky, one of the Yale complainants, told POLITICO Biden’s speech reinforced that sexual violence on college campuses is not just a “niche interest” but “needs to be a national priority — a mainstream priority.”

Lynn Rosenthal, White House adviser on violence against women, said the vice president’s speech struck a chord with college-age men and women nationwide. “The feedback has been absolutely incredible – it’s circulating all over the web really resonated with young women and with young men,



Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/52773.html#ixzz1J3L4WevI

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