This text is replaced by the Flash movie.

Facts

  • More than 84% of the rapes that occur on college campuses are committed by an acquaintance of the survivor. (National Victims Center, 1992).
  • 1 in 4 women is assaulted during their college careers. (Koss and Wisnieski, 1987).
  • Women between the ages of 16-24 years have the highest victimization rates in the country. (Bureau of Justice, 1990).
  • In 90% of reported rapes the survivors are females. (FBI, 1989)
  • 75% of male students and 55% of female students involved in date rape had been drinking or using drugs (Koss as cited in Burgers, 1998).
  • Assaults often take place in the living quarters of either the perpetrator or the victim.
  • 84% of college men whose behavior meets the legal definition of sexual assault do not think of what they did as sexual assault. (SUNY Stony Brook, 1999)
  • 42% of college women who are raped tell no one about their assault. (SUNY Stony Brook, 1999)