Another wonderful and thoughtful article on the politicalization of college rape. Just one short story about such an issue.

While on a college tour with my then high school junior, of Barnard, a few years ago I had an interesting education into collage rape stats. The poster outside the admissions office loudly announced that Barnard had eight rapes a week on campus. The picture on the poster was a graphic pen and ink drawing of a young woman in obvious agony. Powerful stuff.

I had seen the poster while waiting for the college tour for prospective students to begin. So when the tour began, I pointed to the poster and asked the tour guide how could Barnard have over 300 rapes a year on campus, based on a 40-week school schedule. That's really poor security on campus, I added. The tour exploded apart, and the poor tour guide ran into the office in tears.

Ten minutes later, as we were about to leave, the female "provost" of the university arrived with a man who was introduced as the legal attorney for the school. The provost tore down the poster and started screaming at me for being such an insensitive clod. I stood there and smiled.

"Isn't eight times 40 weeks, over 300 rapes?" I asked.
She became silent. "I've already have sent a photo of that poster to all my friends and a few blogs." Another very long silence.

The lawyer was classic. "So we can arrange for your daughter to have a VERY early admission, if you get my drift."

The provost began to protest loudly, but the lawyer told her to "shut the hell up, your stupid poster could cost us millions in alumni donations."

"No," I said, "just tell me what the poster was all about, because I asked a passing security officer about rapes on campus, and he told me there were only two last year."

The provost said that those 300 were "virtual classroom rapes committed by male faculty each week, by suffocating the empowerment of women." Really, I couldn't make this up.
My daughter does not attend an East Coast school, but is very happy at her chosen university in the Midwest.