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Related: About this forumThis DC Council Member Wants Sexual Assault Convictions to Appear on College Transcripts
This DC Council Member Wants Sexual Assault Convictions to Appear on College Transcripts
DC At-Large Council member Anita Bonds proposed new legislation this week that would require colleges and universities to clearly mark the transcript of a college student convicted of sexual assault while on campus, putting it permanently on a students college record.
The legislation, which is being referred to as the Scarlet Letter bill, would require colleges and universities to indicate a conviction of sexual assault on a students transcript, or on the transcript of students who withdraw from school while under investigation for sexual misconduct. Furthermore, the legislation would institute a number of sexual assault preventative measures and tools for colleges and universities to handle reports of sexual assault. For example, it would require a ratio of campus sexual assault workers to enrolled students of 1 for every 2,000, as well as mandate a sexual assault prevention course for all incoming students within the first six weeks of school.
I am outraged by the proliferation of sexual assault on our college campuses, said Councilmember Bonds in a statement. I am introducing this bill because we need to do much more to combat these assaults and protect the victims. Bonds is also the head of the Democratic Party in Washington, DC, and was joined by three council members in introducing the measure.
Bonds cited a recent Post-Kaiser poll which reaffirmed the commonly-cited statistic that one in five women, or twenty percent, who attended college in the past four years say they were sexually assaulted. The data from this poll also show that students are divided about the definition of consent, that victims of sexual assault suffer from trauma, and that a small minority of victims report the crime.
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Studies have also shown that most rapists are repeat offenders; one study, supported by many others, found that though only 6 percent of men admitted to attempting or committing rape, on average those men had committed rape 5.8 times. Bonds proposal has many activists excited at the prospect of seriously impacting the cycle of sexual abuse on college campuses, in which often times if a student is convicted of sexual assault and expelled, they are then able to freely apply to and attend another college.
http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2015/07/16/this-dc-council-member-wants-sexual-assault-convictions-to-appear-on-college-transcripts/
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This DC Council Member Wants Sexual Assault Convictions to Appear on College Transcripts (Original Post)
niyad
Jul 2015
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randys1
(16,286 posts)1. It isn't now? WTF
niyad
(113,510 posts)2. amazing, is it not?
niyad
(113,510 posts)3. 3. . . 2. . . . 1. . .
Novara
(5,849 posts)4. I never thought about it
But yeah, someone who was run out of one school for sexual assault could then go to another and do the same thing.
I'd say this is long overdue. But I'll bet it doesn't pass, pessimist that I am.
niyad
(113,510 posts)5. I agree. as basically simple and obvious as this is, I doubt it will pass. too many
"but it will ruin his life" whiners around.