In mocking the sexual assault scandal at a rival school, WKU students revealed that rape culture is very much present at ours.
Author: Amanda J. Crawford
Amanda J. Crawford is a freelance writer and journalism professor at Western Kentucky University, where she teaches reporting and media ethics. She previously worked for Bloomberg News, The Arizona Republic, the Baltimore Sun, People magazine and other publications.
Reasonable Doubt? Rolling Stone’s Missteps Fuel Disbelief of Rape Victims
Not long ago, I overheard a snippet of conversation among my college students. Another professor had talked about rape in class that morning. The professor didn’t talk about the prevalence of sexual assault on college campuses or the egregious way that universities were addressing (or, rather, not addressing) reports of rape. Instead, a student said, […]