END IT: in 21 Years.

First of all, thanks for bearing with me as I battled swine flu (maybe?) and just general sickness those weeks leading up to Thanksgiving. Thanks for waiting for me too as I got back to this blog!

So before break, Deb Margolin (my acting 210 professor) brings in a pamphlet from Washington and Lee University, where she had been giving a talk that weekend. It was from a group "END IT" at WLU, dedicated to ending rape and sexual assault at WLU by the year 2030.

2030.

Wait. Seriously?

Yes. Here is a transcript below:

If you wouldn't want your sister (or brother) to come to W & L, would you send your children?

END IT is a movement that seeks to end sexual assault at W & L no later than 2030.

Let's make W & L a safe place.

(Phone numbers)

Coming soon, endit.wlu.edu.

END IT.

So the website does not work. There is no way to contact this group. I am just left with a bunch of questions and Deb is left with the impression that W & L is "RAPE CITY!"on the weekends. (Apparently getting drunk is an excuse for raping someone?--so I'm told, I have no verifiable fact on this).

All I have is this pamphlet and 2030. No contact. No Website. What does this mean? Does this mean that the rape situation is so bad that its going to take until 2030 to rid of it? Is that an "ambitious goal" or can we be a little more ambitious here??? Or maybe I completely mistake the pamphlet. We all know sexual assaiult happens everywhere. Maybe they are trying to be lenient and solve the problem by slowly phasing in on it.

BUT COME ON. Rape is a federal offense! I don't quite get why you don't say END IT TODAY because its been illegal. You can demand more from your school than 2030, I should hope.

Here is the catch, my oscillation. My catch 22. Whatever. I don't know the situation. All I have a card. 2030. Deb's "Rape City" reaction. I have no facts. I do not know. Maybe this group is somehow right in approaching the problem as they are. But 2030??? I want to judge those raping boys. I want to persuade those victims and activists to demand more. Yet I am clueless. This is the activist's/philanthropist's dilemma: you know something is wrong, you just don't know what.

What would you think?