<p>Rational, the only thing about that article that should possibly scare you is that it is <em>only</em> five rapes were reported. Sexual assaults on college campuses are sadly far more common than you might think. So although this isn’t very comforting, Yale certainly isn’t alone if this student is indeed guilty. Some stats to back up my claim: </p>
<p>1 of 12 male college students committed acts that met the legal definition of rape. (Warshaw, Robin. I Never Called it Rape. Harper and Row. 1988)</p>
<p>A survey of 6,159 college students enrolled at 32 institutions in the United States revealed the following statistics:
More than 1 in 4 college-age women surveyed had been the victim of rape or attempted rape
Forty-two percent of the victims told no one
(American Medical Assn., printed in Ann Landers column)</p>
<p>One out of every three women will be the victim of sexual assault during her lifetime. (Rape Crisis Center, Washington, D.C., 1992)</p>
<p>It is estimated that 85% of rapes are never reported to the police, and that less than 5% of the rapists go to jail. (Rape in America, A Report to the Nation, prepared by the National Victim Center and Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center, 1992.)</p>