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Sexual Assault on Campus

It's hard to pin down the numbers on sexual assaults on college campuses. Women often don't report attacks to authorities, and studies vary on how they define an assault. Figures range from rates as low as 3% to as much as 20%. But even using the most conservative numbers, that means nearly 2,500 women attending college in Utah will experience rape or attempted rape this year. RadioWest hosted a three-part series on the complicated issues surrounding sexual assault. We talked about the culture that may be contributing to the problem, about prevention and how Universities respond when the unimaginable happens.

Blurred Lines

KUER 90.1 | By Doug Fabrizio

Published November 8, 2017 at 9:00 AM MST

Photo by Thai Nguyen, CC via Flickr, http://bit.ly/2ja3Fyy

Wednesday, we’re talking to journalist Vanessa Grigoriadis, whose controversial new book looks at sex and sexual violence on college campuses. Grigoriadis interviewed more than 100 students, as well as parents and college administrators, to try to understand how sex, power, and consent work on campus these days. The answer is really complicated with good and terrible sides to the story. There’s also a lot of what she calls the mushy middle. Her book is called Blurred Lines.

Vanessa Grigoriadis is a contributing editor at The New York Times Magazine and Vanity Fair. Her book is Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus [Indie bookstores|Amazon|Audible]