By: Skeptical

Skeptical
Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:05:18 +0000

According to the AAU survey about 24% of Ohio State women are victims of sexual assault. For the Columbus campus there are about 28,600 women on campus so adjusting that for four years on campus, that would be about 1,700 assaults per year. The Washington Post reports that between seven and twenty-five percent of the assaults are reported (varying according to the severity of the assault). So, even if all of the assaults involved just kissing, we should expect about 120 reports per year. The Lantern has indicated there were twenty-one reports in 2012 and twenty-five 2013.

Thus, at Ohio State, comparable actual data seem inconsistent with the predicted data. The Lantern should look into this.