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By James Wagoner
President, Advocates for Youth
This year's NFL draft offered an unexpected, and most edifying, moment of social consciousness when the raucous audience made up of pro football fans from around the country, broke into a chant of "She said NO, she said NO" when the Pittsburgh Steelers' "time on the clock" was announced from the podium. The chant referred to the controversy surrounding Pittsburgh quarterback, Ben Rothlesberger, who has been the central figure in a number of sexual assault allegations. The credibility and serial nature of these accusations caused the NFL to recently announce a six game suspension for Rothlesberger for the 2010 season.
Social change sometimes creeps up on you and I take this incident as one more indicator that things are finally beginning to change.
Don't get me wrong, there is still an epidemic of sexual violence on campus and throughout our society. But when you hear this kind of impromptu protest at an unlikely venue like a pro-football draft, you know something is going on in the culture. And to that I say one big, loud "Amen"!
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