Kenneth Martin Hunting Ground Response

Kenneth Martin

AP US Government & Politics, Period 3

Mrs. Gordon

April 9, 2016

The Hunting Ground Blog Response

1. I think that there’s so much on-campus sexual assault because young men move away from their parents and hometowns and think they can do whatever they want. I think that this is encouraged by their peers and the college administration.
2. Sexual assault should be reported to the college and the police. The college should permanently expel the student who did it and the police should arrest and charge them. The victim should be supported and be offered counseling and other services. If the college does not sufficiently support the victim, the Department of Education should withhold Title IX funding.
3. The college often tries to blame the victim for their assault and when the victim speaks up they deny any wrongdoing on their part and sometimes retaliate against the victim.
4. Title IX is a part of the Education Amendments of 1972 that denies federal funding to educational programs that are found to discriminate against people based on gender. Advocates for victims of on-campus sexual assault argue that when schools don’t appropriately address claims of sexual assault, they are discriminating against the victim by making them feel inadequate and unsafe on campus. Because of this, those colleges should be denied Title IX funding.
5. It would be very hard to change this culture. I think that it’s important to educate young men about sexual assault so that they don’t commit it. However, I think there’s always going to be young men who don’t care about what’s right and wrong even if they’ve been taught properly. That’s why colleges have to be very serious about claims of sexual assault so that students know that they will be harshly punished if they assault someone.