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Is it true that 1 in 5 women are raped on America’s college campuses? If so, what does that say about our universities and the people who run them? If not, how did that statistic get into the mainstream? Caroline Kitchens, Senior Research Associate at the American Enterprise Institute, looks at the data and explains the very significant results.
My sentiment, exactly. And — we had separate dorms and/or residences.
I have either attended or was employed by 7 universities or colleges in my life time and I am now nearly 80 years old. In 1957 at Columbia University, one male student attempted to make a serious pass and when unsuccessful never made another. Pickups were attempted, no is easy to say, I was never molested or raped. In our sexual culture maybe our girls or women are not comfortable saying no, thus feel violated after the fact and call it rape. But co-ed dorms and bi-sexual rest rooms certainly don’t help.
I wonder if you’re making too much of this. If you assume that the people who make these claims are honest, then you need to search for an explanation for the data. But I see no reason to assume that honesty. If you treat the “data” as fiction, the picture becomes far more understandable. The difference isn’t so much that college dormitories were different, but rather that researchers were generally honest.