Sexual Assault on Campus
SEPTEMBER 23, 2006 Listen to this Story
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Things are different for the current crop of American college students. They take notes on laptops and field calls all over campus. But some things haven't changed, like partying. College is still a time when many kids try new things, like alcohol, drugs and sex. This combination has created a hazard for women on campus. Various studies suggest as many as one in five college women will be sexually assaulted during her college years. Most of them will know their attacker. Few of them will report it. And there will be a high correlation with alcohol.
Barbara talks with Elizabeth Armstrong, a sociology professor at Indiana University in Bloomington. Armstrong spent a year observing students in an all-female freshman dorm for her research on rape. Then, many sexual assaults happen when students have been drinking at parties. For a snapshot of a college party, we sent independent producer and recent college grad, MJ Davis, to a mixer at Duke University.
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