With Labor Day now behind us, students across the US are returning to (or making their way off to) colleges and universities across the US.  For many students, this will be the first time to be living on their own, away from parents. With this new-found freedom, the lack of parental curfews and other rules, read more...

In this article – “Will the Fear of Retribution Decrease Campus Rape Reporting at BYU?” – I wrote about the case of an 18 year-old BYU freshman who, after reporting she was sexually assaulted to school officials, was promptly investigated by university administrators to determine whether she had violated BYU’s honor code by drinking or read more...

According to Wisconsin police and public reports, a University of Wisconsin female student was sexually assaulted by a fellow male student in the male student’s apartment.  After denying his sexual advances, the victim was allegedly held in the apartment and repeatedly sexually assaulted over the course of several hours, including being choked into near unconsciousness read more...

Title IX – What Your College-Aged Daughter (and Son) Need to Know This time of year is an incredibly exciting time for our children going off to college.  It’s a time for making new friends, transitioning into adulthood, and experiencing the new freedoms that come from moving away from home. As parents, we’re both excited read more...

It’s time to have a serious talk about campus rape and sexual assault.  That is the message behind Culture of Consent, a student organization launched at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. A significant part of the message consists of students holding posters that briefly touch upon aspects of their sexual assault.  As an example, one read more...

Our nation was collectively shocked and outraged this month when the judge in the sexual assault case of a Stanford swimmer sentenced the perpetrator to only six months in jail plus lifetime registration as a sex offender.  Immediately, the news was widely reported, and as of today, petitions to have the judge removed have garnered read more...

Women who have been raped and who have been the victims of other sexual violence have long been questioned by “the system” regarding what they were wearing at the time of their assault, as if they were “asking for it” by the clothes that they chose to wear.  A senior at Arcadia University – Katherine read more...

In a recent article, USA Today reports on the case of Madeline MacDonald, who said that as an 18 year-old freshman at Brigham Young University, she was sexually assaulted by a man that she met online.  After properly reporting the case to university officials, she was then investigated by the school regarding whether she may read more...