We all know that when it comes to reporting rape cases, Higher Ed has issues.
Schools are known to hide behind excuses like having limited jurisdictions, and their laws are also sticklers for confidentiality.
But that’s no reason to not work to improve a school’s response to sexual assault charges.
Indeed, President Obama recognized the problem in January when he signed a memo establishing a White House Task Force on Protecting Students from Sexual Assaults. It resulted from a White House report that said one in five women is sexually assaulted while they attend college.
But now mix Higher Ed’s sexual assault problem with Higher Ed’s intoxication for big time athletics, and the problem grows exponentially.
It’s one thing to gnash teeth about garden variety athletic scandals like aggressive recruitment, hidden payments, or whether athletes go to class or graduate on time, but add sexual assault into the mix, and suddenly, we are in a whole new legal, ethical and moral realm—one that requires a whole different level of outrage.
In other words, we all better be at least as riled up about it as we would over an interference call for our favorite team.
