Washington Examiner
10.7.15 | Asche Schow
Activists on at least two college campuses are upset that their universities aren't showing the "epidemic" levels of sexual assault the activists believe exist.
At the University of Albany, the director of the school's Advocacy Center for Sexual Assault, Carol Stenger, bemoaned the idea of schools wanting zero reports of sexual assault. Shouldn't schools want zero reports? At least if it means there weren't any sexual assaults? Well, that's not what Stenger wants.
"But how could we have a zero? There are 17,000 students here. We know the national statistics. It's happening everywhere," Stenger said. "If we increase that reporting, that means more people are getting assistance. And assistance is the fastest way to healing."
On one level I can see Stenger's point: More reports could mean more people feel comfortable coming forward.