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While I have written about college sports’ problem of violence and sexism before, this is the first time that there is some somewhat positive news. Mark Emmert, the new president of the NCAA, the body that governs most college sports, has decided that it’s time to get serious about violence against women at the hands of its male athletes, perhaps because the statistics are only getting worse: male athletes …
… make up just 3 percent of all college students, yet are responsible for 19 percent of sexual assault allegations and 37 percent of those pertaining to domestic violence. The sheer number of accusations has increased and while some of this may be due to greater reporting, there are also likely many more cases that women do not come forward with.
To make headway on this issue, Emmert has begun a dialogue with Katherine Redmond, founder of National Coalition Against Violent Athletes, and legal expert Wendy Murphy. Redmond was one of the first to successfully challenge the NCAA under Title IX after being sexually assaulted by Nebraska football player and serial rapist Christian Peter (she was recently called in by current athletic director and former Cornhusker coach, Tom Osborne, to talk to the team about, “what it was like to be a rape victim of a Nebraska football player”). She and Murphy suggested that the NCAA adopt a specific policy on violence against women and set up a system to discipline players for their actions, even if they do not end up being convicted of a felony (the two use the recent example of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell suspending Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger over rape allegations despite him not being charged). Although this may not necessarily deter all criminals (I seriously doubt that Roethlisberger is going to stop being an ass just because he had to miss 4 games), it is a good step in the right direction and shows players that attacking women (or committing any crime for that matter) will have consequences.
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I think it is more a case of athletes being involved with many more women than the average dude. That kind of thing can skew results.
How does dating more women lead to hitting them?
Well, do the math. Lets say you have ten non athletes, each gets involved with ten women. One of the ten beats his GFs, that is ten beaten women. Lets also say you have 4 athletes each involved with 100 women, on of them beats ever odd numbed GF. that is 50 women beaten by athletes and only 10 by non-athletes. How is my math?
Oh yeah I was completely missing your point, I was thinking you meant having more girlfriends made them more likely to hit said girlfriends, which to my mind made no sense. My bad, sorry.
There is a joke in there somewhere, and it most likely involves the “pimp hand”.