Sexual Assaults: Knowing The Statistics But More Importantly Changing Them Katie Hawkins

1. Sexual Assaults: Knowing The Statistics But More Importantly Changing Them Katie Hawkins Trinity College Logos Not required. If you do want to use a logo, please use one of the images in this area. Avoid changing the size of these logos, if possible. If you do need to change the size of the logo, be sure to lock the aspect ratio of the image and scale appropriately. Please review the Trinity College Logo usage guidelines. 2-Column Section Title Introduction Methodology Findings • Data from the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study, 2001 • 10904 Observations • 483 Variables • Survey/Questionnaire • Questions: • Have you ever been a victim of sexual assault? • How many times have you had 5 or more drinks in a row in the past two weeks Throughout a women’s four-year college career, she has a one in four chance of being raped or sexually assaulted. This is a statistic that is not widely known or acknowledged. While there is a significant amount of research and literature on sexual assaults, not all of it is easily accessible. I chose to focus on college sexual assault statistics which also made the research at my disposal minimal. However doing so allows my findings to be relatable to myself and my current college peers. A considerable amount of the literature written on college sexual assaults relates to alcohol abuse and intoxication; therefore I used alcohol as my independent variable due to the constraint by the available data. Although alcohol appears to be the dominant related factor in rapes and sexual assaults, there are also other variables that tend to be overlooked such as misinterpretation, age and gender. • Cross-Tabulation table between amount of times 5+ alcoholic drinks consumed and victims of sexual assault Sample text box that stretches two columns wide. Text boxes of this width are be difficult to read from in poster format. Use only when necessary • Sample list box that stretches two columns wide. • Text boxes of this width are difficult to read in poster format. • Use sparingly • These findings are not statistically significant and when the control variable, gender, was added the data is still not statistically significant. Sample shaded text box that stretches two columns wide. Text boxes of this width are be difficult to read from in poster format. Use only when necessary. Conclusion Alcohol is definitely the most commonly related variable to college campus rapes and sexual assaults. However other variables that are overlooked and not addressed as intensely are misinterpretation and the lack of attention towards male sexual assault victims. Research showed that colleges tend to focus a lot more on trying to control alcohol consumption and not give enough attention to rape and sexual assaults specifically. 2-column caption text box. Used for adding a caption to under any graphics, images, charts, tables and diagrams that are two columns wide. Victim Of Sexual Assault vs. Sexual Assault While Intoxicated Acknowledgments I would like to sincerely thank Rachael Barlow for her continuous help throughout my research process.