Blog Post 2-After class discussion

I have heard of many instances of sexual abuse. One in particular happened in my own hometown. I was in third grade when my best friend of the time had tole me her stepfather had been sexually abusing her. At the time we were so young that it was hard to comprehend. Therefore, I told my mom who contacted the school. We talked to my friend about it, and she agreed to talk to her mom about the situation. Even though it broke up her mother's new relationship, it was the right thing to do. My friend and her mother moved away and that was the last time I had heard from her and her family. Thinking back on it now, it is very hard to even understand how hard it must have been for my friend to tell her mother this kind of thing. It made me think of how many other people going through this problem decide not to come forward, just because of other outlying factors in their lives. Any type of sexual harassment, assault, or rape is devastating to the victims. However, when people question those who claim to have been sexually violated it makes me question our society altogether. As if this person has not been going through enough, now they have to face the scrutiny and judgement of the public eye.

As far as sexual abuse on college campuses, there are a lot of things we went over in class today that I found interesting. There are a lot of things to take into account when understanding the culture that surrounds sexual assault. There is a lot of rhetoric that goes into how one perceives this phenomena. How do we as people understand why this type of thing happens? There is honestly no way to wrap your head around this kind of thing or justify why it happens.

We also talked about the people in colleges or universities are in charge of dealing with sexual assault on campus. How do they go about it, and what do they do to help the victims? These are some questions we pondered.

Should colleges be held more liable to increase the amount of knowledge their students go through while in school? Should the students be held liable for their own well-being? Colleges cannot make you make good choices. They can however, make it more well known as to what good choices are, and how they can be made. However, how can you go about applying this knowledge in the most constructive way to their students? Of course, colleges will spend most of their money on what they find most important to their own set of values. An example would be providing core classes, or changing the general education models to provide knowledge and prevention of sexual assault, abuse, etc. There are going to be problems, constraints, and overall logistics that all universities will have to acknowledge. Budgeting models always shed light on what a university finds more valuable and lucrative to their establishment.