HEC/News: Prevalence of college rape in spotlight

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Prevalence of college rape in spotlight
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Federal research finds majority of sexual assaults go unreported
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The Charlotte Observer (NC) April 29, 2006
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By Ames Alexander and Adam Bell
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"The rape case involving Duke University lacrosse players is casting
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light on an oft-hidden problem: Thousands of sexual assaults on college
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campuses go unreported each year.
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"Over the course of a college career, roughly one in five young women
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experiences a rape or an attempted rape, a federal study has found.
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"But in a crime where victims and assailants almost always know one
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another, assaults are rarely reported. Fewer than 5 percent of campus
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rapes are reported to police, according to a survey of more than 4,000
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college women conducted for the Department of Justice and released in
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2000..."
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Full article available at http://tinyurl.com/gdb5t.
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