Colleges Dealing with Sexual Harasment Cases

After reading the articles that we were given it really made me realize how much sexual harassment cases happen on college campuses. At Notre Dame there were people that told the girl to not mess with Notre Dame football because of how high and mighty these student athletes are treated and they also told her that she wouldn't be believed because of how the athletes are treated.  After reading about this is many different articles it showed me how much athletes are actually treated more relaxed than any other person. Just like in Steubenville, the two boys are able to just sit around at their home because they don't have any evidence that they actually did sexually assult a girl even though there are plently of eye witnesses. This really angered me because I think that the police should do their job and stop crimes regardless of who the law enforcement is dealing with. The Deerfield Police would not be okay with anyone doing any sort of crime in Deerfield, so why should it be acceptable in any other place? Especially with something so terrible as sexual assult. What I don't understand is that The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill can even have the heart to deny reports about something so serious. I understand that there are some false reports but to reject the idea that it even happened is rude and it shows why women that are raped have a hard time telling people that they have been assulted. A few months ago the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity at Indiana University was kicked off of campus for rape charges. This shows that there is some hope with colleges and dealing with sexual assult accusations and that they are not going to take the charges lightly.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/25/unc-underreport-sexual-assaults_n_2546825.html?utm_hp_ref=university-of-north-carolina

Lance Armstrong

Over the past couple of months Lance Armstrong has been stripped of many endorsements and he resigned from the Livestrong charities board because of rumors that he was taking steroids. He hasn't said anything publicly about doing performance enhancing drugs but it is very clear to many people that he had been doing them. He has already been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and he has finally agreed to meet and talk with Oprah Winfrey in a interview were he says that he will answer any questions honestly. Does this mean that he will finally admit it that he was using performance enhancing drugs? There is definitely no denying that he did use the drugs but if he publicly admits that he did use the drugs there will a lot more Lance Armstrong haters than there already are right now. Lance Armstrong was someone who I definitely admired because of how inspirational his story was. He was such a role model to so many people that I read his autobiography in my freshman year English class. It really makes me upset to see how someone so inspiring can even think about doing something that could potentially end his career for good and he can lose so many supporters as well. Role models are a big deal in children's life, they look up to them for everything. Lance Armstrong was a very good role model to a lot of kids and now they see that he's doing steroids, they're going to think that it's okay to do steroids too which is not right. To read more about Lance's struggles, read this article http://sports.yahoo.com/news/armstrong-awaits-candid-oprah-interview-182703998--spt.html.

Outside Reading Final Blog Post

In the last four chapters of the book Piper is mostly talking about her and other prisoners release from their prison sentences. As time goes on most of her friends have been released or sent to an intensive nine-month drug program. Piper has a hard time adjusting at first without her usual friends but she finds other women she can spend the short time she has left with them. Piper gets a letter from her lawyer telling her that she could potentially be called to testify at a trial in Chicago for someone who was supposedly involved in the drug crimes that she was involved with. Throughout Piper's travels to get to the trial, she ends up traveling from Oklahoma City to Chicago with the woman who had ratted her out, Nora Jansen. What I learned from this book was that the most unexpected people will help you out when times become very hard. When Piper was in prison she didn't expect her fellow prisoners to help her through her sentence and help her learn valuable lessons from her mistakes. She had learned in Danbury that she was a strong woman and that if she could forgive Nora for what she had done Piper would be able to accept responsibility for the path that she put herself on. With Piper's want to forgive Nora, it shows that she has accepted what she had done in her life and that it could help her with closure through the situation. Hopefully I'm never put into a situation like Piper's where I have to find out that unexpected people will help me out the most, but I think that it is a very valuable lesson to know because you do never know what life will put in front of you.