If you are in distress and need to speak with someone urgently, an on-call crisis counselor can be reached 24/7 at the following numbers:
Holy Cross 24-hour Crisis Center number (855-418-7282)
National Suicide Help Line (800-273-8225)
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)
