My pain was never more valuable than his potential.

In March of 2016, an unnamed woman was found being sexually assaulted by a college athlete
named Brock Turner. He was caught by two bikers as he was sexually assaulting this woman,
and even though he was caught and they had substantial evidence against him.. His potential
outweighed his crimes, and he was only given six months in prison. The bravery of Chanel
Miller to come forward and share her story, no matter the result, has inspired others to come
forward and share their stories, and inspired the very theme of this paper.

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Hi, my name is Alexis Rosenfeldt, and my paper was about Athletes and Assault: the legal
analysis of the link between sexual assault and college athletes

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The thesis of my paper states the general topics of what I went in depth about in my paper,
which consists of the societal and legal issues that plague college campuses and how they
create negative environments for students and negative stereotypes of college athletes.

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The main reason that this issue has become more and more prevalent in modern day boils
down to three main points, which is recruitment that happens before the athletes are even
enrolled in college, the societal impact of coming forward, and the legal complications that follow
if someone genuinely wants to pursue a case.

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Recruitment is when colleges scout out athletic talent that they would offer a spot at their
college. The head of this process is the National Collegiate Athletic Association. As of right now,
there is no overall guidelines on who they can recruit, so colleges are allowed to recruit athletes
who have been convicted of or plead guilty to a felony, even though the endorse individual
college policies. Without the overarching guideline against athletes who have been convicted of
felonies, this leads to cases such as Tiffany Williams vs. University of Georgia. Tiffany Williams
was assaulted by a pair of students from the basketball team, and it was orchestrated by one of
the guys named Tony Cole. He was recruited by UGA, even though he has a felony charge of
sexual assault on his record. Even though the guys were just suspended from their team,
Tiffany Williams ended up winning the case because of UGA’s flawed Title IX program.

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College Athletes make up only 2% of the average population, yet commit 35% of the sexual
assaults on school grounds (This research was done by Todd W. Crosset, Jeffrey R. Benedict,
and Mark A. McDonald, and they were paid to show the opposite results). In addition to these,
as of September of 2019, there were 243 cases in secondary schools that were pending for
sexual assault, and 43% of them were in sports-dominated schools (Division 1)

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When going into the societal impacts of sexual assault, there are two main branches:
Hegemonic Masculinity and the Shamefulness of Being a Victim. Hegemonic Masculinity is a
theory that states that a man feels as though he should get whatever he wants because he’s a
man, and a woman feels as though she should give the man what he wants because he’s a
man. This has been embedded into us for the last few generations, and makes it so that women
feel as though they deserve to be sexually assaulted, which intertwines with their shame. In
multiple cases, either female students are lead to never come forward because they are
humiliated by their stories, female students are forced to drop out of their schools because of
the severe harassment they get for coming forward, which leads into the legal complications of
sexual assault.

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Title IX is the policy in education that states that there is not to be anybody who is discriminated
against because of their gender, and prohibits any sort of sexual assault, harassment, or
coercion. However, as of 2018, Betsy DeVos stripped Title IX and catered it towards predators.
Victims claims of sexual assault can be reviewed if there has been a significant effect on their
education. In other words, they have to get to the point of failing or dropping out of college
because of the incident. While there may be some Pros to this to limit false accusations, it
makes it much harder for women to come forward and say something

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Colleges are federally required to have a Title IX coordinator, known procedures against sexual
discrimination, and any college that is federally funded most have a list composed of any Title IX
incident that happens on campus. However, in 2018, ESPN did a report and polled 99 Division 1
schools who were all federally funded for a list of their Title IX reports (which they were allowed
to have under FOIA), and 75 of them reported back that they did not have the resources to
compose this list. In addition to this,colleges need to do better in terms of educating their
students on their Title IX policies. the Association of American Universities found that only thirty
nine percent of students know where to go if they need to report a sexual assault. Colleges as a
whole need to start working towards the goal of a healthy campus environment and a better
system for women to receive help.
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Any Questions?