Amherst Suicide after Sexual Assault

<p>@Amfreborg, your comment, “THIS is the caliber of student admited to Amherst? I wouldn’t hire someone like this to muck out my horse stable, and these are our most elite and brightest?” is funny and I’m presuming it was offered more mockingly than critically. One of my best friends at Middlebury graduated in the top ten of his law school class at Stanford, yet my first memory of him at school was when he pee’d in his dorm closet. My point is that there are plenty of ridiculous nights and stories at almost any school (no matter how elite). </p>

<p>Also, to those claiming this is a problem related to all NESCAC’s and their history of all-male education, I’d like to remind you that Colby has been coed since the early 1800’s and Middlebury has been coed since 1883. That means there is no one alive who remembers when these schools educated men only (and there’s probably no one alive whose parents remembered such a time). This is not a NESCAC culture. The NESCAC schools are all small, with top-tier academics, but that’s probably the limit of any universal statements we can make. While they have many similarities, they also have many distinguishing features.</p>