Historically, when college sports programs, especially football, have needed to convince young, athletic men to choose their school, they’ve used women to do so. Ever since the days when legendary football coach Bear Bryant coached at Alabama in the 1960s, large Division I athletic programs at major universities have been organizing groups of “hostesses”—college women with pretty, smiling faces who assist high-caliber potential student-athletes when they visit campus.

This submission was inspired by the recent rape allegations emerging at the University of Missouri, details of which can be found here. This young women took her own life in 2011, something that I feel could have easily been avoided. An additional and somewhat ridiculous correspondence between ESPN's Outside the Lines and the University of Missouri can be found here.

How many times are things like this going to happen before colleges start to reform the way they treat athletics? Nobody should be treated differently simply because their accusations are against student-athletes that bring revenue in to a university. The amount of money that college athletes bring in should not take priority over sexism, sexual assault, rape, and the denigration of not just women - but everybody.