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It’s about time this made front page news.

Props to the washingtonpost for making campus sexual assault the cover of today’s newspaper.

According to a Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll, 20 percent of young women who attended college during the past four years say they were sexually assaulted, But the circle of victims on the nation’s campuses is probably even larger. In all, the poll found, 25 percent of young women and 7 percent of young men say they suffered unwanted sexual incidents in college.

READ MORE: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/local/2015/06/12/1-in-5-women-say-they-were-violated/

Think colleges should be held accountable for sexual assault? We do. Tell your Rep. to support the HALT Act: bit.ly/HALTact

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