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Alcohol Isn’t The Cause Of Campus Sexual Assault. Men Are.

Alcohol Isn’t The Cause Of Campus Sexual Assault. Men Are.

by The Daily Eye Team June 16 2016, 10:21 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 36 secs

Bystanders who intervene, not less booze, would help prevent it. Ask Brock Turner or his father what made him sexually assault an unconscious woman behind a dumpster on the Stanford University campus, and they’ve got a ready answer: alcohol.
“I know I can impact and change people’s attitudes towards the culture surrounded by binge drinking and sexual promiscuity that protrudes through what people think is at the core of being a college student,” Turner wrote, seeking leniency from the judge. “Brock was desperately trying to fit in at Stanford and fell into the culture of alcohol consumption and partying,” his father wrote in his own letter.

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Humra Quraishi is a writer, columnist and journalist. She has authored Kashmir: The Unending tragedy, Reports From the Frontlines, Kashmir: The Untold Story, Views: Yours and Mine, Bad Time Tales, More Bad Time Tales, Divine Legacy: Dagars & Dhrupad and Meer. She has co- authored The Good The Bad and The Ridiculous: Profiles, Absolute Khushwant and a series of writings with the late Khushwant Singh. Her take on what's it like to be a singleton in today's turbulent times, is part of the Penguin published anthology, Chasing the Good Life: On Being Single. And, one of her essays, The State Can't Snatch Away our Children is part of the Zubaan published anthology, Of Mothers And Others. Her essay in the volume on the 1984 Sikh riots, 1984: In Memory and Imagination is titled, Why not a Collective Cry for Justice!  


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