<p>“If a rape occurs, you go to the police and report a crime. Don’t look for some sugarcoated procedure run by a college to make it easy or anonymous for you. It’s serious business.”</p>
<p>I agree. For a rape to occur, there has to be a rapist. Rapists are criminals. According to Amherst, 5% of Amherst women experienced at least one rape last year. That is a statistically significantly higher rate than other NESCAC schools (higher than Williams, thought not by much, which had 44 women raped, and expelled five criminals.) I do NOT believe most Amherst men are rapists, and I don’t believe that most Amherst women are liars. I do believe (as the national data seem to indicate) that a majority of rapists do so more than once, and that there is a small but statistically significant criminal element on the Amherst campus (as there is at Williams). </p>
<p>And, yes, rapes should be reported to the police, if only because it provides leverage for the student to actually access services from the college.</p>