<p>^^ You are a bit off in your analysis, but the author addresses this quite clearly. It is not for the lack of witnesses (and I add, or lack of evidence) that the police are not called; it is for the lack of a desired automatic outcome of guilty. </p>
<p>When the police are called, the one bringing the charges has to have a strong case too. If both parties are drunk or smoking weed, then, of course, it falls apart rather quickly. Nothing to do witnesses or evidence. </p>
<p>College discipline boards are not courts; they are political and PR instruments of a college, and the author points out their decisions are for very different reasons other than guilt or innocence. It kind of weakens the case all around that one avoids the police and expects people who are not versed in law or criminal statues to meter out a punishment based on a he said-she said situation. That is not justice; that is, as the author says, a kangaroo court. Why should there be punishment if actual guilt has not been established, short of a confession? He said-she said is not an automatic guilty. That is the problem the author illustrates that the people bringing the charges want. </p>
<p>Bottom line is rape is a crime, and all these cases should be handled by calling 911 and going to the police. The judicial system is the only place rape charges can be handled properly.</p>