Extra Credit #2
The Problem of Sexual Assault on
Campus | The Backstory | The New Yorker
This
documentary is focused on sexual assault that occurs on campus and the narrator
speaks on one specific assault that occurred with a Columbia University
student. This student reported a year after her incident that she was raped,
and the university then found the accused student not responsible. So, because of this, the
student who was assaulted decided to carry a twin XL mattress around campus as
a way to portray the burden she carried all throughout the period of when the
assault happened up until her graduation. Later on, the accused student sued Columbia
University saying that the individual’s mattress project was a form of gender
discrimination as he said that the sex was consensual.
The most important message from this
video is that sexual assaults is not only a problem of individual misconduct,
but it is also a public health problem which is produced by a social environment.
I think this was an interesting documentary
to view because it highlights yet another issue that exists on college campuses
and it is necessary for there to be a change in laws, policies, and social
norms. Changing the environment will only create change within the college
campus, which ties in with the main message of my research paper.
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