This piece is posted at The Huffington Post.
This is part 3 of a 3 part series including Sexism Against Conservative Women is Still Sexism and Letterman Quietly Ushers in the Next Wave of Feminism.
Timing is everything. Throughout his illustrious career, David Letterman had a knack for timing the delivery of his words. Unfortunately for Letterman, his timing with the national psyche was not so fortuitous. Had he delivered those same jokes a year ago, the words would have simply vaporized into the air with roars of …

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Like many people around the world, I too have been following the events unraveling in Iran since the election results of the June 12th election were announced.  As many of you know, the information that has been filtering through to us in recent days has not been easy to come by considering the crack down on foreign media presence in the country. One story that seems to have exploded onto the international scene due to the common citizens …

According to a new study by RTI published in the Journal of American College Health:

20% of undergraduate women are sexually assaulted during college and an additional 10% experience attempted assault
Over half of  assaults occured when the women were “incapacitated and unable to provide consent”

In sheer numbers, that means more than 97 thousand students  are victims of alcohol-related sexual assault EVERY YEAR, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.  And the problem is getting worse, with binge drinking having risen now to 45% of students.
Many colleges are implementing aggressive education and …