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Dani Howell
GSW 1110
10 September 2014
Rape Kits in Bowling Green
Sexual assaults happen in colleges all over the nation, yet if you want an exam done in
Bowling Green one would have to go off campus to the Hospital. Students need to report assaults
and be seen by a nurse who does a rape kit examination, called a Sexual Assault Nurse
Examiner (King) to insure Stents mental and physical health is stable, reporting these event also
help reduce the threat of it happening again. Students health is being compromised because the
Hospital and school officials see having these kits as an unnecessary expense on campus.
Students need to get help after being assaulted and the university should put forward and effort to
get those students that help. When the BGSU change from the previous University health center
to the new Falcon Health Center, they stopped doing rape kits causing students who have been
sexually assaulted to walk almost thirty minutes to the Wood County Hospital for a SANE exam.
The far walk and intimidation aspects of the hospital results in a large number of cases not being
reported due to the large effort the victim must put toward getting one done.
The hardest part about the Falcon Health center not having rape kits is the distance
students have to go to get one done. For more than 20 years, students were able to walk over to
the previous University health center on Ridge Street, report a sexual assault (King), now
students dont have the accessibility of getting an exam done. In Bowling Green the Hospital is
about 1.3 miles from the Falcon Health Center. Its a three-minute drive or approximately a 26-

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minute walk (King). Most students on campus do not have a car and must walk everywhere, if
the victims who must walk have an injury due to the assault it could take an hour or longer for
that victim to make it to the hospital while the health center is just a crossed the street. If students
cannot easily get to a facility to have an exam done they are far less likely to have the exam
done.
Sexual assaults happen to more students than people would think. Female students at any
university have reported that 1 in 5 are assaulted at any point in their college life (King). It is
not reported how many male students our assaulted but the number of women equal out to about
1,629 out of 8,147 (King). These numbers represent the average female students, the numbers
of students that have reported at BG have not been as high but is still way more than there should
be which is zero. Since 2010, there have been 41 forced sex offenses reported on campus,
according to University Chief of Police Monica Moll and the 2013 Campus Security and Fire
Safety Report (King). Sexual assault happens to a lot of students all over the country and even
thought the numbers in Bowling Green are under 100, more students would be likely to report if
they were educated about services offered making it more needed on campus.
The average student that comes to BGSU are between the ages of 17 and 22, most
students around these ages are very intimidated to go to the hospital especially when it's the first
time without their parents. "There may be a certain level of comfort to reporting rape or sexual
assault and getting examined by a SANE at a University Health Center (King). Nurses in
hospitals see college students as children or adults with no in between unlike nurses on campus
to see students as what they are both child and adult. SANEs on-campus also have experience
that come with being on campus every day, knowing available research resources and
understanding students, she said (King)".

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Sexual assault exams are not offered at the Falcon Health Center because some of the
university officials and staff feel like it is not necessary for this service to be offered to students.
The "Falcon Health Center is owned by the Wood County Hospital that offers the same service"
(King), so it is believed that it is not needed at the center. Bowling Green also finds it hard to
provide the service when they have calculated that most "students want to report in exam early
before the center opens or after it closes" (King). "Students often would come in multiple days
after the incident has happened" (King) making it harder to collect the full kit which takes up the
time and space of the center to be used for the exam which takes a long time to do in itself.
The officials may think that students only want to go early in the morning
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Work cited

King, Danae. "Rape Kit Exams Not Available on Campus." The BG News. BLOX Content
Management System, 20 Apr. 2014. Web. 03 Sept. 2014.