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Hardly the “natural conclusion”. First of all the data I posted suggests that increased reports are endemic to many small schools, including LAC’s, whether or not they have honor codes. (A quick search suggests Amherst, Reed, and Randolph-Macon as well as Haverford have prominent honor codes or principles but Warren Wilson, Gallaudet, Marlboro, and Swarthmore do not). And Washington & Lee, another school with a prominent Honor System, is 318th on the list. A much longer story would have to be told if the theory that the honor code is the source of a sexual assault problem is to be given credence.</p>
<p>Second, in order to draw the conclusion that an increase in reported incidents reflects an increase in actual incidents one would have to hold that at all schools survivors have the same inclination and same level of encouragement to report assaults and that campus security will evaluate all such reports by the same standards and record them with equal accuracy. To explain the data we really have to decide what is more likely: that the climate for sexual assault is actually worse at Haverford and other schools on the list than at most schools or that the public exposure of sexual assault is higher than at most schools. I find the latter more believable but could be persuaded otherwise by the authoritative testimony of current and recent Haverford students and some plausible conjecture explaining how this could happen at a school which, in my limited experience, emphasizes harmonious community and self-integrity to a greater degree than most.</p>