{"id":41330,"date":"2014-09-04T09:49:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T16:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=41330"},"modified":"2014-09-04T09:49:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T16:49:29","slug":"california-attempts-to-stem-campus-rape-epidemic-through-new-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/09\/04\/california-attempts-to-stem-campus-rape-epidemic-through-new-law\/","title":{"rendered":"California Attempts to Stem Campus Rape Epidemic Through New Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140904Uprising_201409\/2014_09_04_campus_rape.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Jodi Jacobson <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140904Uprising_201409\/2014_09_04_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/campus_rape_bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>One of the most dangerous places a young woman can be today is a college campus. It\u2019s estimated that 1 in 5 women are sexually assaulted at colleges and universities in the United States each year and rape is the most under-reported crime among students. <\/p>\n<p>At Columbia University, a student by the name of Emma Sulkowicz has been protesting her school&#8217;s inaction over her rape at the hands of a fellow student through the use of an innovative piece of performance art. Ms. Sulkowicz has drawn attention to her struggle for justice by lugging around a twin size dormitory mattress with her at all times on campus. She is one of 23 students to have filed a federal Title IX complaint against Columbia University.<\/p>\n<p>With colleges doing little to prosecute rapists for fear of tarnishing their reputations, the Federal Government assembled a task force to look at alarming rates of campus sexual assault. In July a bipartisan group of US Senators created the Campus Safety and Accountability Act which calls for, among other things, anonymous student surveys to assess the level of sexual assault on campus. <\/p>\n<p>At the state level, California has become the first in the nation to craft a bill to help colleges evaluate sexual assault allegations. The bill, which is being called the &#8216;Yes Means Yes&#8217; measure, states that students must get affirmative consent or a verbal &#8216;yes&#8217; in order for the sex to qualify as consensual. A college&#8217;s failure to use this guideline when ruling on sexual assault cases could result in a loss of state funding. While many are lauding the bill&#8217;s intentions, some critics find some of the bill&#8217;s wording vague and hence problematic. Governor Jerry Brown is expected to sign the bill into law by the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief of RH Reality Check<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhrealitycheck.org\">www.rhrealitycheck.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most dangerous places a young woman can be today is a college campus. It\u2019s estimated that 1 in 5 women are sexually assaulted at colleges and universities in the United States each year and rape is the most under-reported crime among students. At Columbia University, a student by the name of Emma [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41340,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41330\/revisions\/41340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}