So, that lead photo of Columbia just got me, a Barnard alum, thinking. Columbia is famously and hilariously obsessed with their lawns, particularly the South Lawn pictured in the photo above. The red flag on the left indicates that you are NOT under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES supposed to WALK ON THE LAWNS. DO NOT. JUST DO NOT…

That is why you take it out of the hands of the school and go directly to the police, and insist on a rape kit and prosecution. Hard to make football practice from a jail cell.

$25 fine! I once got a $150 parking ticket on campus.

Fuck that. She's awesome. What I hate most is that this story doesn't surprise me.

Hey, remember that time when Family Guy didn't exist and Seth McFarlane wasn't being paid to make jokes on the Oscars about sexual assault?

We spend a lot of time here on Jezebel talking the fact that the onus of preventing rape should be on men and about how education and outreach programs should focus on that. Now that one is, you're saying we shouldn't have to train someone to act like an adult?

Zero tolerance hasn't been shown to be particularly effective with pretty much all the other stuff it's been applied to; it generally makes the issue worse. Plus, research shows that one of the reasons that students are afraid to intervene is because they fear getting someone in too much trouble.

I wish this didn't have to be taught to act like a decent human being, but sadly, it needs to be. We live in a culture where men feel entitled to women's bodies and sex, don't know about consent, and are often reluctant to intervene.

Almost entirely personality, really. We didn't pay attention to wealth. Race only mattered insofar that everybody wanted to brag about having the most diverse sororities, so not being white earned you bonus points in most houses. Looks mattered a little, but not a lot. We weren't a top-tier (read: hot) house, so while…

Honestly, the only criteria for picking who we'd ask to pledge was "Is this guy a decent guy?" (I.e. Was he a known asshole, seem like a risk, disrespectful in general, flashy if he was rich [We had plenty of non-rich dudes] , doing a ton of drugs), "Is this a guy you'd want to have a meal/beer/social interaction…

Honestly, with us, it was really no more complicated then seeing if someone got along with most of us and was a relatively decent person. 90% of Fraternities are hungry for dues paying members.

Come on. This is a good thing. And yes, you do have to train someone to act like an adult - that's what college is all about for most college students. It's your first few years out of high school (whether you're in college or not) when you learn to pay your own bills, where you take out a loan and/or credit card,…

That works on a bumper sticker level but Freshmen are 17 or 18. Training them to be adults is basically what the University experience is.

They aren't teaching people how not to rape. If you're that kind of person by the time you get to college you're probable SOL in the humanity department. It is a bystander program to teach already decent people how to prevent or stop the shitty behavior of others.

We shouldn't have to, but unfortunately their parents did a shitty job. This is a much better alternative than the status quo.

You should not have train someone to act like an adult.

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My first concert was a Gwar show in a club called "the Abyss". I was in the 6th grade, my dad took me and they wheeled a giant penis on stage and sprayed the crowd with milk. Moral of the story: my dad is awesome.

Vulvatron is probably the best name ever to have been named from the book of named names.