Rapes hushed up by administration at Amherst

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<p>I think the NYTimes put it best in the original article on Ms. Epifano’s “statement”:</p>

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The allegations of misconduct and the response to Ms. Epifano’s essay have raised pointed questions on this campus and elsewhere: Are sex crimes more surprising at a school thought of as elite and supportive of women’s rights, or less surprising at the kind of place often labeled as having a culture of entitlement?

<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/education/amherst-account-of-rape-brings-tension-to-forefront.html?[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/education/amherst-account-of-rape-brings-tension-to-forefront.html?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I think the reporter was comparing Wesleyan, which had been mentioned earlier in the article, to Amherst, but the comparison could be just as aptly made between Swarthmore and Amherst.</p>