One proposal would begin requiring college officials to begin accepting complaints about off-campus assaults from students. Currently, schools are only required to accept complaints if an assault happened on campus.
President Barack Obama’s White House Council on Women and Girls just released a report of past and prospective administration actions titled “Rape and Sexual Assault: A Renewed Call to Action” to highlight the epidemic of rapes on college campuses. Indeed, according to the report, “No one is more at risk of being raped or sexually assaulted than women at our nation’s colleges and universities.” One in five students has been assaulted, but just 12 percent of them report the violence. Because many attacks occur at parties, victims often are “abused while they’re drunk, under the influence of drugs, passed out or otherwise incapacitated.”
