April 24, 2017
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. CFT’s Link of the Day blog will feature a variety of posts about this issue during the month.
“In the next 24 hours, she went to the hospital, reported her attack to the police, and stayed the night with her parents. However, when she arrived back on campus with a black eye and a broken arm, her family was confronted by the dean of women and told that Beth was being expelled “because she is a fornicator.'”
Samantha Field writes about sexual violence on Christian college campuses on the Slacktivist blog on Patheos. Read “‘God is Done with You’: Pensacola Christian College and Sexual Violence.”
“On March 2013, the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination (SaVE) Act was signed into law as part of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Reauthorization. The SaVE Act is an amendment to the Clery Act and requires that all institutions of higher learning must educate students, faculty, and staff on the prevention of rape, acquaintance rape, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.”
Read the National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s document, “What is campus sexual violence?”
link suggested by Dr. Christy Sim
