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Sexual Violence on College Campuses

In my women's studies course I took last semester I learned that sexual violence is highly prevalent on college campuses all across our nation. Rape is a big part of this sexual violence and much of it goes unreported for fear that the victim will be persecuted and the assailant will not be prosecuted. Much of these rapes are acquaintance rape, or rape committed by someone with whom the victim is already familiar. There is also a large problem with gang rapes among America's universities that are primarily committed by athletes or fraternities. I have many questions I would like answered by doing this research. One thing I hope to get by doing this project is to acquire some precise statistics on rapes and other forms of sexual violence that occur on all college campuses, hopefully even to find some statistics on colleges near the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I would also like to find detailed accounts of court cases against the assailants and see how the courts have ruled and if the rulings are biased in anyway. One last thing I would like to do is to find enough information so that I could possibly start a successful group on campus against such violence as rape and sexual harassment. I intend to have a mixed audience for this project ranging from young high school students on into their grandparents. More importantly I hope to reach the college age group because this problem affects them the most. I hope to show women and men that sexual violence is a very real problem on our campuses and that it is a problem that can be remedied. I hope to reach the younger groups in order to make them aware of the problem and show them ways they can prevent it from happening. Likewise I hope to reach the older groups in order to gain support for the others who are fighting against sexual violence.

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  1. "Threat High for College Students"
    -http://broadcast.webpoint.com/wphl/acgrape/acgrape_colleges.htm
    -This article describes the threat of rape on college campuses and details some ways in which one can prevent the threat of rape. It also commends some different campus programs and organizations that help in the fight against rape and sexual violence.
    -Orlando Sentinel
  2. "Officials Say Many Rapes Go Unreported at College Campuses"
    -http://www.uri.edu/artsci/jor/TheSource/rape.htm
    -This article just basically gives many statistics from Rhode Island and more specifically The University of Rhode Island. It also gives other statistics at colleges such as Moorhead State and Pennsylvania State.
    -University of Rhode Island's The Source
  3. "Sexual Violence Statistics"
    -http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~staar/manual/stats.html
    -This site gives a description of the different types of rape and sexual violence that is evident in today's society. It also gives statistics collected from a survey conducted by the NIMH.
    -Students Together Against Acquaintance Rape, Univ. of Pennsylvania
  4. "Rape on College Campuses"
    -http://webpages.marshall.edu/~pressman1/rape.html
    -This item is a research essay detailing the specifics of rape on college campuses. It uses a variety of sources in order to present evidence and proves that rape is a serious threat to a college campus. It also details some possible ways one can prevent such sexual violence. -Jessica Pressman, November 1998
  5. "Rape Fact Sheet"
    -http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/fivpt/spotlite/rape.htm
    -This sheet of facts details different prevention programs and each of those programs' outlooks for the future. It describes different consequences of rape as well as shows some risk factors, the prevalence and incidence of rape and many other facts.
    -Family and Intimate Violence Prevention Team, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control

 

 

Net Business and Economics: Internet Mini-Essay

TITLE: America Online: Past and Present

TOPIC AREA: Net Business

In 1985, Stephen Case became chairman of what would later grow into a multi-billion dollar net business. America Online, founded on the idea of convenient services for mass-market economies, continues to seek out the dream that AOL will grow into a central life necessity just like the television or air conditioning. America Online brought to the World Wide Web many innovative things such as the Keyword search and Buddy List operations. This past January 1, America Online merged with Time Warner Incorporation and now oversees many smaller operations such as AOL, Instant Messenger, Spinner.com, Nullsoft's Winamp, and Mapquest. America Online's services are available in sixteen countries all over the globe and accessible in eight different languages. America Online continues to be innovative with its new development of AOL Anywhere in which subscribers can access My Calendar, You've Got Pictures, Media Player, and Email from any Internet accessible computer. America Online can be accessed using either high speed or dial-up connections. America Online's Stephen Case leads the way and now allied with Sun Microsystems, AOL offers solutions for other companies involved in the Net economy. Now serving more than 29 million AOL members, its merge with Time Warner has increased membership with the additions of 2.8 million Compuserve members, 34 million Netscape members, and 80 million ICQ users. Just this past March, America Online's total revenue increased in three months from 1.81 billion dollars to 9.08 billion dollars. These figures convey to any normal user, America Online will be around for a while and is possibly as popular as Bill Gates' own Microsoft Company.

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