Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Rolling Stone and Rape on Campus

Rolling Stone the popular magazine published an article telling of a rape incident on the university of Virginia campus. The victim was Jackie a freshman in the university. The magazine recognized that there was mistakes in the article. The journalist of the article even failed to contact the victim. Over the past couple years there has been quite a lot rape and sexual assault allegations at many campuses around the country. Due to the Clery Act campuses are to publish crime to the proper authorities but campuses have been known to have their shortcomings in this range. Although  campy sexual violence remains all too real there does happen to be false reports as well. With 2-8% of the reports being false. 

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