Biden to Discuss New Guidelines About Campus Sex Crimes

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/education/04violence.html?_r=1&ref=educationdepartment

Vice president Biden is urging the nation’s schools and colleges to do more to prevent sexual violence, saying campus sex crimes often go unreported because victims fear that universities will not discipline offenders. I think that sexual violence is a major issue in college campuses everywhere. I think its good that it is being talked about and that we are trying to find ways to stop this alarming trend. An Internet-based survey of undergraduate women in 2007 at two public universities in which 19 percent of respondents reported that they had been victims of attempted or actual sexual assault while at college. That is very disturbing. Action needs to be taken now. We can not subject our students to this type of abuse. It is sickening and colleges need to be aware of the issue and do something to stop it.