Drunken Hook-Ups a Thing of the Past?

It happens often: People get drunk and hook-up.  If this is a shock to you, then I doubt you've been to college.  However, the days of "getting lucky" are over.  Instead of luck, it is considered rape.

Wait.  What?

Just recently, after complaints about sexually hostile environments on campuses, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education Russlynn Ali sent a nineteen page letter to all schools that receive federal aid outlining how they are supposed to combat the trend of increasing sexual violence at college -- but the data on this "trend" are murky, at best.

Before knowing how to curb the problem, sexual violence needs to be defined.  According to Title IX and the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR), "any intentional sexual touching, however slight, with any object, by a man or a woman upon a man or a woman, without consent" is considered rape.  That sounds fair after reading it only once.  But then consider that consent is defined as active and not passive.  Although I understand rape can occur even when a woman/man does not stop a man/woman from progressing sexually, that does not excuse Title IX's overtly vague definition of sexual assault, which -- though it may be meant well -- I'd argue is more about controlling students (the great majority of whom are adults) than protecting women.