Bullshit, friends, bullshit.
The Washington
Post put together some scary information. Essentially, they list out
schools across the US with more than 1,000 students and the number of rapes
that school reported. Fun fact, Penn State is number one with all of 56
reported rapes. Additionally, as the title of this post points out, 45% of
schools are claiming no rapes. Yeah, that’s not true. Estimates put the number
of sexual assaults at 1 in 5 college aged women. That is a conservative
estimate. So unless some small school has the entirety of their population
sexually assaulted then someone is fibbing.
Shame, shame on you US colleges and universities. I haven’t seen the hard
data, but I’m going to say it, these figures are statistically improbable. So
if these schools aren’t covering up rapes, which is an impossibility folks,
then students are afraid to come forward and report. The general rule of thumb
being discussed is that if a school has a low number of reported rapes that
doesn’t mean there are no rapes; it means “something is rotten in the state of
Denmark.”
Some of the low-lights from the total number of sexual assaults reported between
2010 and 2012:
- Penn State: 84
- John Carroll University: 7
- The George Washington University: 37
- University of Maryland, Baltimore: 0
All of this brings me back to my main question of the summer: how do we
get The Washington Post to stop
talking about rape? This might be the question of our time.
