How do colleges or universities across the country regard sexual assault and how is it dealt with. Statistics on how common it is for white women (cis) and intersectional folks. Gwen Paule, Alice Wykes, Alana Vajentic, and guest Sage Parker discuss how this may or may not be common at Cornell College but how are we to know when they don’t have any statistics online for us to see. This isn’t simply an issue of “we want to know more” its an issue of “we need to know more or else how do we know kids aren’t getting murdered”. We note “as many as 25% of women and 5% of men will be sexually assaulted as college students” with the addition that LGBTQ students might be at higher risk than heterosexuals. Richards zooms in to add that only 5% of these assaults are reported to campus or community law enforcement, which is a much lower rate than found for the women not in college of this age (105).

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