Recently, Stanford University banned liquors that are 20 percent alcohol by volume from undergraduate campus parties, while also prohibiting undergraduate students from having hard-alcohol containers that are 750 milliliters or larger in student residences. This is in response to a sexual assault case that occurred in January 2015 and involved a student athlete at Stanford.

In case you somehow missed that, let me provide some brief sparknotes. Brock Turner blamed alcohol and the Stanford "party culture" for the incident, and his father argued that it wasn't fair that one night alters his entire life. Additionally, the victim wrote a heartbreaking letter that she read to Turner in court that ended up going viral online.

Although Turner was convicted of sexual assault, he only received a six month sentence, and it was just announced that he'll be released three months early due to good behavior.

Needless to say, this situation seemed to spark an outrage across the entire United States. Rape culture is real and clearly not improving or disappearing any time soon. If anything, Turner's light sentence and the most recent alcohol ban on campus are hindering things.

By restricting alcohol, Stanford is supporting Turner's statement that party culture was to blame for the incident, whether intentional or not. This is not going to solve anything.

Alcohol was clearly a factor, but absolutely not the reason, and therefore it is not to blame. Rape is a serious issue that needs to have serious consequences, or this stigma will never change. Stanford and the judge in the Turner case seem to completely disregard the severity of sexual assault and choose to blame alcohol instead of addressing the real problem here.

Instead of restricting alcohol, why don't schools start talking about sexual assault and how to prevent it? There are a million things that can happen from students drinking on the weekends and rape doesn't have to be one of them.

Additionally, by restricting alcohol, I believe it would make students become more rebellious and put them in even more dangerous situations because it forces them to go off campus if they want to drink and puts them in an even more unsafe environment.

I am glad Stanford is trying to do something, but what they chose to do is sending the wrong message. Changing an alcohol policy isn't going to change rape culture.