Sexual Assault intervention and prevention on college campus

I do not often comment, but I have to say that this is very true Capt Porter, based on my past experience; I have gone through all the SHARP and TARP training as a government civilian employee. And, as a young Lieutenant, I was involved as the main witness in the court martial of a soldier for "attempted rape and oral sodomy." (Both individuals apparently knew each other.) The officer victim was decidedly drunk at the time... (bad judgement on her part, though she at least had the foresight to have a female friend drive her home to the BOQ from the 'right arm' night at the O-club); the accused was sentenced to 10 years at Leavenworth--and this was 1982--the old school days). At any rate, the major contributors to assaults, in my opinion, are (1) alcohol, which lowers inhibitions and devastates an individual's ability to exercise good judgement (and young US soldiers seem to think getting 'totally wasted' is the thing to do, unlike young Europeans or Japanese who, having grown up with access to alcohol from a younger age, in general seem to have a much better appreciation of the sensibility of moderate drinking than most Americans do; I have to put up with latrines where explosive shitters (likely due to excessive alcohol consumption) like to gum up the works--but that's a different story), and (2) the fact that the US media is always objectifying women primarily as sex objects--but a change to that would require a really fundamental cultural shift that will be a hell of a long time coming. Likely the more possible cultural alteration would be in redirecting drinking habits--that would at least lessen the number of sexual assaults where alcohol is the significant contributing factor.

I concur. Alcohol is nearly always a factor. When I was stationed in Guam, out of 19 incidents, alcohol factored into 17 according to the Master Chief who was briefing the audience. I would also recommend pubic or group settings and avoid isolating oneself in a dorm room or a barracks room. The Army's current focus is to avoid victim blaming and to encourage bystanders to speak up or intervene. Changing societal attitudes take time.

A very wise idea, MSgt! Good to check on it with the unit JAG personnel also, I suspect.