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[quote=Anonymous]1 - change our society that is raising children without any sense of empathy. I have no clue how we change our society to make this happen, and it will probably take a LONG time. But it needs to happen. I want to be a part of making it happen, but don't know how to impact that change on a large scale.

2 - decrease the drinking age for beer and wine to 18. Should bring more social activities back to on-campus venues and off-campus bars, and out of fraternities. Should also reduce the pounding of grain and other hard alcohols and the use of illegal drugs. Not that rape didn't happen when the drinking age was 18, but seems like things have become more extreme, are harder to supervise. Anecdotally, college student alcohol poisoning and drug abuse were higher in the early 1990s than they were in the early 1980s when the drinking age was still 18 or 19.

3 - Educate students and faculty on what to do if a friend is assaulted. Get the victim to an emergency room and make *sure* a rape kit is performed. That does not mean that the victim has to press charges, but it collects the evidence if the victim decides to do so in the future. It also gives them the opportunity for Plan B and other precautions. I would expect that going to the ER would also provide the victim with mental health resources to support them through this ordeal.

4 - better training of law enforcement. I can't think of a valid reason to question a victim's attire or sobriety. A defense attorney might do that (although I think that is heinous, but probably considered an acceptable courtroom tactic), but irrelevant to law enforcement.

5 - Fraternities need to have zero tolerance policies on sexual assault, rather than closing ranks and protecting the assailants. [/quote]

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