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The New Campus Anti-Rape Movement is a series of political movements by victims of campus sexual violence and their allies in the United States that began as early as 2008, although many articles begin with the rise of activism in 2011. While related to the anti-rape movement of the 1960s and 1970s that grew out of second wave feminism, which focused on establishing federal and state laws regarding sexual violence against women, the New Campus Anti-Rape Movement has focused on compliance with federal law and measures in institutions of higher education, namely in response to the statistic that as many as 1 in 5 women in higher education will be a victim of sexual violence.

In many situations, the movement has taken the form of protest and petitioning at colleges and universities, with the intention of calling attention to unfair or imbalanced practices regarding victim support, perpetrator sanctions, and higher education cultural issues. In some situations, protests were accompanied by organized filings of Title IX, Title IV and Clery Act complaints with the Office of Civil Rights at the United States Department of Education. Although located throughout the United States, internet activism connected regional groups, giving the movement national cohesion via the sharing of political tactics. The main aims of the movement have been campus rape prevention, creating appropriate college and university procedures for responding to sexual violence, and compliance with federal and state mandates.

Organization
The New Campus Anti-Rape Movement is made up of multiple regional and campus organizations, interconnected by multiple internet platforms.

According to Amanda Hess, in a Slate follow up, "they're Skyping, Facebooking, and Tweeting it all." Inter- and intra- campus coalitions have used blogs to both share strategies and demonstrate effective tactics, while also updating their communities on local actions. Organizations like George Washington Students Against Sexual Assault, UCLA's 7000 in Solidarity: A Campaign Against Sexual Assault, and the Oxy Sexual Assault Coalition often serve as coalitional groups of multiple on-campus organizations standing against sexual violence. Twitter accounts, such as @EROC (End Rape on Campus) and @KnowYourIX, serve as hubs for sharing information across organizations.

Criticism
In City Journal, conservative commentator Heather Mac Donald argues that "the movement is an even more important barometer of academia itself. In a delicious historical irony, the baby boomers who dismantled the university’s intellectual architecture in favor of unbridled sex and protest have now bureaucratized both. While women’s studies professors bang pots and blow whistles at antirape rallies, in the dorm next door, freshman counselors and deans pass out tips for better orgasms and the use of sex toys."

U.S. News & World Report published an opinion piece by American Enterprise Institute employee Caroline Kitchens, where she characterized rape culture as an example of hysteria. Kitchens also alleged that activists have created and distributed false statistics regarding the incidence of sexual violence on campus. Christina Hoff Sommers opines that on-campus anti-rape activists have created a climate that lends itself to paranoia, censorship, and false accusations.

Critics such as Barbara Kay, Megan McArdle, Harvey A. Silverglate, and Christina Hoff Sommers have all characterized the controversy over campus rape as a moral panic.