Congressional hearing On Campus Rape

[Patroklos]

Only 38% of US undergrads live on campus, and that's a broad category including things like club houses, sorority/fraternity houses, and university owned commercial apartment complexes that are many times indistinguishable form "out in town" and do not fully lean on the services you mention if at all. And that's just undergrads, post grads almost always live off campus entirely and can make up up to half the number of enrolled students and are certainly included in campus crime statistics.

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-co ... -on-campus

Given that campuses are already far safer in in every category of crime I cared to look at including rape, why are they getting this attention vice other communities and institutions? It seems perverse.

[Alferd Packer]

Only 38% of US undergrads live on campus, and that's a broad category including things like club houses, sorority/fraternity houses, and university owned commercial apartment complexes that are many times indistinguishable form "out in town" and do not fully lean on the services you mention if at all. And that's just undergrads, post grads almost always live off campus entirely and can make up up to half the number of enrolled students and are certainly included in campus crime statistics.

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-co ... -on-campus

Given that campuses are already far safer in in every category of crime I cared to look at including rape, why are they getting this attention vice other communities and institutions? It seems perverse.

Probably because the female experience is the typical experience at college? About 3 million more women attend university nationwide than men. It makes sense that the universities would devote more attention to this problem--there are more women on college campuses, as a percentage of population, than...hmm, well, any other institution of comparable size and scope, anyway.