A program designed to help female college freshmen resist sexual assault is creating a lot of buzz among victims’ advocates and college educators. Most were encouraged to learn that incidents of rape had been cut in half among participants in a Canadian study of the program, which involved four three-hour sessions in which the women learned to recognize the danger of coercive situations and to fight back, verbally and physically. Still, some questioned whether the approach puts too much responsibility on women to resist rape, and not enough on men to treat women with respect.

June 12, 2015 ・ From Chronicle of Higher Education