Rape In Residential Colleges Essay

Residential Colleges used to be a safe place for education but it now has become a hotspot for rape. Between 23.1% of females and 5.4% of males are experiencing rape on campus. (Rainn.org) The current punishment of suspension or expulsion perpetrators is not slowing it down. Rape a felony that should lead to some heavy jail time. Universities have been taking matters into their own hands and have even told past victims to not report rape to police. Poor security and letting men and women reside in the same building, even if they are on different levels, is not helping. The schools have been punishing the perpetrators, but if they were to revise their security and housing then maybe the percentage of rapes would reduce. Universities and colleges

In the past few months there have been many rape incidents happening in campus apartments. Just recently, a man named Asfawesan Dres broke into the apartment and raped a student then attempted to inject them with meth. He was not a student but was still able to sneak onto campus. Seattle Times writer Sara Jean Green reports on the incident. She said, “The charges say Dres raped the UW student, whose apartment door was left unlocked when her roommate left for class, which wasn’t unusual because the 21-year-old typically left soon after her roommate.” (Green, 2017) The student left her door unlocked but if the college had better security for their apartments then they potentially could have caught the perpetrator. Jean continues to write how this was not the only time Dres has snuck into UW district apartments. He was found in another residents apartment a half-mile away. If the college had better protection and security for the students and apartments then this rapist would have never entered and injured these victims. UW needs to reevaluate and be more strict on protecting its