The NCAA board has announced plans to expand its policies surrounding sexual violence.
by countless organizations, its own study commission, and eight U.S. Senators. I mean, why bother being specific about something as serious as assault when instead you can focus on exploiting the thousands of poor athletes who make the organization millions of dollars while making little, if any, money themselves?Although many hope that this investigation will prompt the college athletics organization to take real steps to fix this issue, others are doubtful.
“They have failed to act over a span of decades of complaints by sexual-assault and interpersonal-violence victims, many of whom are female NCAA athletes,” Redmond. “They have chosen profits over people, words over actions, perpetrators over victims.”Brenda Tracy, who reported her own assault by NCAA athletes in 1998, hopes that the new NCAA rule will reflect a zero-tolerance approach to sexual violence—similar to the sexual misconduct policy she co-authored, the Tracy Rule.
“I’m cautiously optimistic,” she said. “It’s fairly easy to adopt a policy that looks good in theory and creates some positive media buzz, but doesn’t actually address the real issues going on in college athletics.
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