My topic for the assignment is going to be date rape within college campuses. I think this is a huge topic to all of us college students. There are a lot of different point of views when it comes to this topic. Especially when either alcohol or drugs are involved. We hear a lot about how so many girls or women claim to have been date rapped or rapped, but a big question we have to ask ourselves is was drugs or alcohol involved. This to me is a touchy subject because so many girls calm to have been date rapped because they don't remember anything. Which a lot of the time means they drank to much and blacked out a had sex with the guy. When in reality the guy could have been just as drunk as the girl was. But ill safe the rest of the debate for my paper. What we need to first learn about our the stake holders involved in this topic.
My stake holders would be male or female college students, campus police, drugs use, alcohol industry, facility, and most important sorority and fraternity relations. First college females and males because they need to be aware of what is going on around them and what can happened to them. They need to understand the effects and the punishments to these crimes. Campus police is a direct stake holder because they are the first notified and who have to take matters into their own hands on whether our not its a real crime and the extend of the punishment. They decide if it needs to be sent to higher or power and they have to make a good report so everyone knows what happened. The drug industry is a big one because most the time people are date rapped its by using drugs. If we are more aware of it, then the drugs money and the amount of drugs are going to go up because more people will no about it. But on the other hand it could go down because police are getting better at catching these crimes so they will slowly decrease. This goes the same way with the alcohol industry because it is effected in the same way as the drug industry, expect people could go as far as trying to sew them for what has happened. The other one that is big is the facility because of what they have to do to students who get caught being in a crime of date rap. The may to expel students because of these actions. All the stake holders are very important in date rape and it effects all of them. Especially when it happens as often as it does. A lot of date raps go un reported because of how embarrassing it can be, hopefully this will help girls and guys the courage to report them.
All these stake holders should get together for dinner and see how much they have in common with this issue. They would be shocked on how much the would have to talk about and they would agree on. But on the other hand they would dis agree and have a lot of arguments as well.
I think you bring up some really valid and interesting points. Maybe to narrow your topic you could focus on a specific aspect of date rape. Like situations it happens in or ways that the rapist drugs and lures their victim. This is a really prominent problem within universities, so I think this research could really help a lot of people.
ReplyDeleteI think another stakeholder you should take into account is the faculty- like the president and board members of a university. I think you should include them because if they are nor reacting to this increase in date rape and looking for a way to prevent it, it reflects poorly on their empowerment as well as their ability to control the campus safety. If this is a growing issue they should be highly involved because other people may look to that college and not apply because it has a growing date rape issue. The dean and presidents of the university play a large role I think.
ReplyDeleteThere are many problems and positions when you think about date rape. Date rape is something that happens everywhere but I am mainly focusing on date rape at ASU. We think that date rape is all bad and it always bad and has to be the guy’s fault, but it’s not true most the time. We always look at date rape as t had to of happened and that the girl would have never said yes, but what if the girls was to drunk to realize she did say yes. When we are drunk we don’t always remember everything so we automatically think he raped me, I would have never said yes. But most the time this isn’t true. Most the time we did say yes we just don’t remember. This is definitely an example of valiant behavior because when you date rape someone you hurt them emotionally. We don’t think that it can truly affect someone but it completely does. It makes women completely change who they are and how they act. Which is really sad when people are drunk and claim rape because that night they probably said yes, but now are saying no and so scared of everything. I think girls need to think more about when they claim rape, and accuse someone of something like that especially when they don’t remember. I agree with everyone and think date rape is not okay, but I know as a student at ASU that a lot of girls get upset with themselves for having sex with some random kid so they claim it was date rape and wasn’t okay. This is a very big topic and they are always two sides because some people say that even if your drunk its not okay to have sec with them, but how are girls suppose to know if we are to drunk that we are blacked out so we can’t have sex. A lot of girls even when blacked out can function fine and you would never think they were drunk. I think this is a big topic and we need to hear and see all point of views.
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