Sunday, September 25, 2016
Blog #1
My topic idea for the final paper is sexual assault in a college campus. I plan to focus my thoughts more on why the rate sexual assault is so high for college athletes. I chose the topic because I am interested in it. I work for VPVA and SCREAM theater, so I advocate for sexual assault and domestic violence. Most importantly I chose this topic to better understand why athletes choose to rape in the first place.
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This is a fruitful topic and a good focus. Here are some resources that might help you (some of which I may have mentioned):
ReplyDeleteA few students have taken on this topic, and looking at their blogs might help:
http://npcollege.blogspot.com/
http://collegestacy.blogspot.com/
Another student ended up focusing on rapes by athletes, but her blog was very unfocused and so is not as helpful as her final paper's bibliography, which lists some excellent sources which might help you:
Benedict, Jeffrey, and Alan Klein. "Arrest And Conviction Rates For Athletes Accused Of Sexual Assault." Sociology Of Sport Journal 14.1 (1997): 86-94. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Oct. 2015.
Benedict, Jeffrey, and Todd Crosset. "Statistics." NCAVA. Web. 8 Dec. 2015.
Cohan, William D. The Price of Silence: The Duke Lacrosse Scandal, the Power of the Elite, and the Corruption of Our Great Universities. New York: Scribner, 2014.
Dowling, William C. Confessions of a Spoilsport: My Life and Hard times Fighting Sports Corruption at an Old Eastern University. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 2007. Print.
Fletcher, Laura, and McKenna Oxenden. "Consenting To Change." U.S. Catholic 80.9 (2015): 18-21. Academic Search Premier. Web. 4 Dec. 2015.
Garoian, Charles R. "Penn State: Power and Its Pernicious Fear Of Scandal." Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies 12.4 (2012): 292-296. Academic Search Premier. Web. 4 Dec. 2015.
The Hunting Ground. Dir. Kirby Dick. The Weinstein Company, 2015. DVD.
Krakauer, Jon. Missoula. Doubleday, 2015. Print.
Lavigne, Paula. "Lawyers, Status, Public Backlash Aid College Athletes Accused of Crimes." ESPN. 15 June 2016. Web. 8 Dec. 2015.
Lyall, Katharine C. and Kathleen R. Sell. “The De Facto Privatization of American Public Higher Education.” Change (Jan./Feb. 2006): 6-13.
Murphy, Tim. "College Football's Sexual Assault Problem Is Worse than You Thought." Mother Jones. 5 Dec. 2013. Web. 8 Dec. 2015.
New, Jake. "Should the NCAA Prevent Convicted Criminals from Playing College Sports? | Inside Higher Ed." Should the NCAA Prevent Convicted Criminals from Playing College Sports? | Inside Higher Ed. 4 Nov. 2014. Web. 8 Dec. 2015.
Proffitt, Jennifer M., and Thomas F. Corrigan. "Penn State’s 'Success with Honor': How Institutional Structure and Brand Logic Disincentivized Disclosure." Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies 12.4 (2012): 322-325. Academic Search Premier. Web. 4 Dec. 2015.
"Rape and Sexual Assault: A Renewed Call to Action." Whitehouse. The White House Council on Women and Girls, 2014. Web. 5 Dec. 2015.
"Sex Offenses on U.S. College Campuses." Washington Post. Web. 5 Dec. 2015.
Shire, Emily. "No Rapes on Campus? No Way." The Daily Beast. Newsweek/Daily Beast, 5 July 2014. Web. 5 Dec. 2015.
Weaver, Karen. "A Game Change: Paying For Big-Time College Sports." Change 43.1 (2011): 14-21. Academic Search Premier. Web. 24 Nov. 2015.
You might also find it useful to reference the Amy Schumer sketch that was widely discussed for calling out the problem of athletes getting away with rape and the rape culture surrounding athletics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM2RUVnTlvs