Rape Assault At Harvard Not to be Underestimated
To the editors:
The preliminary release of University Health Services statistics on sexual assault does not provide any information with which to potentially laud Harvard, as The Crimson suggests it might (Editorial, Oct. 25). On the contrary, the survey tells us that well over one percent of female undergraduates, equivalent to 52 students, indicated that they had been raped over the last year.
The problem with The Crimson editorial comes with the suggestion that
because the over one percent who reported being raped in the last year is
lower than some national numbers that we should be pleased that our community is safer than average.
But the more likely possibility is that because rape is such an ignored topic on this campus, people are less likely to report being raped even on
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