Do colleges need to have an mandatory prevention program for athletes both men and women? By Benedictine University blogger Karly Sacco

In today's society it is hard to truly be one hundred percent yourself and admit all your flaws in public. Young adults fear the comments their peers, or even professors will make if they speak about a touchy subject. So it is not a surprise that in college men and women are not completely honest and open with the concept of preventing sexual assault.






Yet, sometimes when there is a subject as serious as this one, it should be mandatory for colleges to have prevention programs to inform young men and women about the severity of sexual assaults. A lot of the time if a specific person is not involved in the situation and they only hear about someone being violated through someone else, they feel like it is not much of their concern. That is the problem right there. If more students spoke the truth and were put into an environment where it is acceptable to openly talk about the issue of sexual assault that happens at college, the better chance of less victims.






This idea applies to everyone on a college campus, however if you target just the athletes specifically, that changes the focus of the assault actions.








When watching the news on television, it seems like there are always so many heartbreaking stories revolving around sexual assaults between a couch on an athletics team and the student that was on the team. These kind of stories need to stop. A couch is essentially a teacher, so relating their roles to a professor’s of a college class is not too far off. There are also plenty of similar stories involving student and teacher relations at colleges. The fact that if someone finds out about that relationship it turns into something much more if it gets to the news level. Yes, there is no doubt that there should be mandatory prevention programs for both male and female athletes but what should be discussed at these meetings truly depends on the situations that have effected a particular students. Sometimes a student won’t even care about preventing future acts of sexual assault. But no matter what, the topic of being able to open up and speak out on issues that are happening in your personal life should be one that all colleges focus on. Once a student is comfortable discussing personal issues, it could change their future.