<p>GA2012MOM – not making assumptions, just asking questions. Horace Mann has serious problem with male teachers abusing students, while Fieldston and Riverdale and Dalton don’t. Amherst has a rape culture, not demonstrated at Swarthmore, Williams, Pomona, etc. Asking why do these differences exist is not making assumptions, just posing questions for inquiry. Though you may want to lump Amherst with every other college in America, saying it’s so doesn’t make it so. There is likely something institutionally defective about Amherst that needs discovering and eradicating. It’s not a sign of weakness but of strength if Amherst confesses to its sins and then tries to prevent them from occurring again. But the first state of that healing process is acceptance and unfortunately you seem to be stuck in a state of denial. That is understandable, but nothing will change until acceptance occurs. It’s not all about the US News ranking in the end, but about whether an environment exists about which all members of the community can be proud, just not the dominant culture which contributed to the problem in the first place.</p>