Stop blaming victims for sexual assaults on campus

From one of the Wire’s 5 best columns of the week:   

Petula Dvorak at The Washington Post on why victims shouldn’t be blamed for sexual assaults on campus. “At Patrick Henry (College), two women spoke to reporter Kiera Feldman about what

happened when they were sexually assaulted by fellow students. In most of the cases Feldman examined, there was no alcohol involved. In one incident, yes, there was mild drinking at a lake off campus. Here’s the common thread: From Christian college to big public university to military academy, the women involved were victimized a second time in the way their cases were handled,”

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/stop-blaming-victims-for-sexual-assaults-on-campus/2014/02/24/b88efb1e-9d8f-11e3-9ba6-800d1192d08b_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines