College Justice Falls Short For Rape Victim

[Nikki Stone1]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124111931

....One month before, she'd come back to her dorm drunk. She said a man who lived down the hall came into her room and raped her as she passed in and out of consciousness. The man said the sex was consensual.

Now Margaux and that man were called together to attend a campus judicial hearing. She'd asked local police to prosecute, but when they refused Margaux was left to rely on the the college justice system.

On a college campus, this isn't a formal legal process like a court of law. Instead it fell to two campus administrators to sort out the truth, simply by asking the accused and the accuser for their sides of the story.

The hearing quickly turned chaotic. Margaux was in one room, talking via a speaker phone. The man and his father were in a room on another floor; they started calling Margaux names.

"It was just a shouting match," she remembers. "He called me a slut. And his dad, who's not supposed to speak, starts talking and saying, 'These college girls have one-night stands all the time.' "....


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This is part of a larger series:

Seeking Justice For Campus Rapes
One of out 5 women will be sexually assaulted during her college years. And despite federal laws created to protect students, colleges and universities have failed to protect women from this epidemic of sexual assault. Even after they've been found responsible for sexual assault, students are rarely expelled or suspended. NPR News Investigations and the Center for Public Integrity teamed up to examine this ongoing problem on college campuses.

Part 1: Morning Edition, Feb. 24

After Jeanne Clery was raped and murdered in her dorm room in 1986, her parents devoted their lives to changing federal law to try to make college campuses safer. Still, more than 20 years later, campus discipline systems rarely expel men when they're found responsible for a sexual assault. And women have been unable to count on help from the government's oversight agency. Read this story.

Part 2: All Things Considered, Feb. 25

Margaux was a freshman at Indiana University when another student living on her floor raped her. She reported the assault to campus security, but the judicial hearing did not go as she had hoped. This is the story of her struggle for justice — and to feel safe again. Read this story.

Part 3: All Things Considered, Feb. 26

Even after reporting her rape to campus security, Margaux found that schools often have a limited ability to investigate these complex cases.

Part 4: Morning Edition, March 3

One reason colleges have a hard time stopping sexual assault is a misconception about who is committing these crimes. The assumption is that rapes are often committed by young men whose judgment is impaired from drinking. But University of Massachusetts forensic psychologist David Lisak says most are serial predators.

[Nikki Stone1]

1. Interesting that most rapists on campus are serial predators.

See OP

[Odin2005]

2. How long before the usual suspects come can call the woman a lying slut?

[Nikki Stone1]

3. You mean the ones that don't believe the victim?

Sad that DU has so many of these.

[47of74]

4. Something stinks to high heaven at Indiana University

[Nikki Stone1]

5. Lots of schools don't protect rape victims

And lots of people think women all lie about rape.

[Jamastiene]

6. Sadly, it is not just Indiana University.

UNC Charlotte and many other college campuses in Charlotte have LOTS of rapes that happen on campuses every time you turn around. They hardly ever catch who did it either.

It's a universal problem, not just a few cities. It happens a lot all over the place.

[niyad]

7. k and r--how in the hell can sex be consensual if one of the parties is "in and out of consciousness

nobody with an iota of decency would have sex with an unconscious person and say it was consensual.

[Berry Cool]

8. Yeah, and then they say it wasn't rape, just poor judgment on his part because HE was drunk?

That's just ridiculous. She's supposed to be fully responsible for whether or not she gets raped--in fact, she's supposed to make sure she stays sober, lest someone try to take advantage of her drunkenness to rape her. Yet if he gets drunk and rapes her, well, that's not really rape, that's just his poor judgment from being drunk?

[Nikki Stone1]

9. EXACTLY.

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[Blue_Tires]

11. "black rape machine"???

you're serious??

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. OK, run this by me again, cuz I might have missed something.

You're claiming that the Obama administration endorses the rape and murder of white women?

Sorry, this is the wrong website for you. I think you are looking for Freerepublic or Stormfront. We aren't so much into that insane white supremacy thing here.

[Kalyke]

12. I have a great friend who works for Security on Campus, Inc.

We're both friends of the Clerys and the Baers and the hundreds of other victims of lax security issues on campus.

http://www.securityoncampus.org/