Vanderbilt Apologizes for 'We Don't Need Your Permission' Football Slogan

Vanderbilt football has come under fire on Twitter for a poorly worded slogan that was being used as a rallying cry for the 2015 season. 

Jeff Ermann of InsideMDSports.com provided the evidence of the Commodores' Twitter post:

Upon seeing the response to the slogan, the team did tweet out an official apology for appearing to make light of a very serious situation, even if that wasn't the intent:

Sexual assault and rape, particularly on college campuses, has become a major topic of discussion recently.

In May, CNN's Kelly Wallace cited a study published by the Journal of Adolescent Health in which 19 percent of women claimed they "had been a victim of attempted or completed rape" during their freshman year. 

Earlier, in January, per Stacey Barchenger and Joey Garrison of USA Today, former Vanderbilt football players Brandon Vandenburg and Cory Batey were found guilty on all counts of raping an unconscious woman in a dorm.

The tweet was not meant to suggest that Vanderbilt was trying to downplay issues of sexual assault, but given recent incidents involving the school and one of its female students, this was an unfortunate slogan to send out on social media.