ASHE SCHOW: Strangely missing from Obama’s State of the Union address: Campus sexual assault.
Don’t get me wrong, the Obama administration is terrible on the issue of sexual assault, as it’s behind the disintegration of due process rights for accused students. But after all the fuss President Obama made last year about the issue — the “It’s on us” campaign and numerous attempts to convince the world that 20 percent of America’s college women will be raped — you would think he would say something about the issue.
But nothing. Not one word in his nearly 6,500 word speech was about campus sexual assault.
How odd, considering victim extraordinaire Emma Sulkowicz was in the audience as a guest of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and considering just how big an issue this was last year.
Maybe it’s because of the pushback the “1 in 5 college women will be raped” statistic has received. Maybe it’s because the policies being created by the hysteria surrounding that statistic are being challenged by lawmakers, students, colleges — even Harvard Law professors.
Maybe it’s because the UVA story imploded, and they don’t want to call attention to the White House connection there.