"One in four"

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'One in four.

That is the amount of women who are assaulted on college campuses. Look around you. Twenty-five percent of the women on Saint Joseph’s University campus could be a part of this statistic.

St. Joe’s, however, is trying to combat this staggering statistic. With an updated sexual misconduct policy and required faculty and staff training on the new policies, the university is taking steps toward preventing assaults on campus.

While this is a good step forward, it seems as though they are only implementing faculty training because they have to. An email sent out by the Saint Joseph’s Human Resources Office stated, “…to comply with what is now an expectation (rather than a suggestion) under recent changes in federal law, we will provide live training on these revised policies and procedures…” This statement makes it seem as though the university is none too enthusiastic about the prospect of this training.

The Clery Act statistics also look a bit skewed. The reported stats say that only 12 sexual assaults—both “forcible” and “non-forcible”—have taken place on campus between 2011 and 2013. There have not been any incidents reported to Saint Joseph’s Office of Public Safety by students living off-campus.

The U.S. Department of Education defines “forcible sex offenses” as “any sexual act directed against another person, forcibly and/or against that person’s will; or not forcibly or against the person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent…”'