[158] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Rape@MIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven R. L. Millman)
Sat Apr 21 17:37:29 2001
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Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 17:37:27 -0400
To: Nnennia Ejebe <nnennia@MIT.EDU>, mit-talk@MIT.EDU
From: "Steven R. L. Millman" <millman@MIT.EDU>
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Also, on the topic of rape prevention, the CP's offer a GREAT course called
the Rape Aggression Defense course (RAD). Read about it and their other
crime prevention publications at:
http://web.mit.edu/cp/www/crimprev/
Steven
At 05:32 PM 4/21/2001 -0400, Steven R. L. Millman wrote:
>The MIT Campus Police, as are all campus police, are required by law to
>report their crime statistics. MIT's 1999 numbers are online at:
>http://web.mit.edu/cp/www/anrep99/crime.html
>
>It looks like there were 4 cases of forcible sex in the 98-99 academic
>year. Assume that no-one here is assaulted like that twice (not
>necessarily a good assumption) and assume that 4 is about average. There
>are approximately 400 women per class (37%), which means that in a woman's
>four year career at MIT she has a probability of being raped of
>(1-1596/1600^4) about 1%. This would indicate that one in 100 women at
>MIT is the expected number to be the victim of assault involving forcible
>sex at MIT during their MIT career. This would not include the time they
>are not at MIT, and because of under-reporting these numbers are
>definitely lower than actual incidence.
>
>They are not individually reported in the campus papers because that would
>be brutal for the victim. Federal law requires confidentiality from the
>CP's and the university. The annual crime stats are published on the web
>and regularly reported by both the Tech and Tech Talk.
>
>As for your last point, I'm a GRT and I make sure to talk to my students
>about rape, especially date rape drugs. I don't know why it hasn't come
>to you.
>
>Anyway, hope this helps.
>
>Steven Millman
>GRT, Next House
>
>At 04:59 PM 4/21/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>>Hey all,
>>You know it's time for a new topic when it's hard to figure out what
>>people are arguing about.
>>
>>Anyway, so I was wondering what people think about the
>>possiblity/probability that rape occurs on our campus.
>>I've heard this statistic over and over: 1 in 4 college age women are
>>raped. Assuming that MIT is 10x better than the rest of the population
>>(and we know we are) let's make it 1 in 40. Assuming we have 4000
>>undergrads, wouldn't that mean that 100 undergrads would be victims of
>>rape at MIT!?! Just 1 is a horrible thing, but 100 is ridiculous. How
>>come nothing is ever reported in the newspaper? Do the campus police
>>have statistics? and why are those not released to the MIT
>>community? Considering how vocal the admin. is about alcohol, why I
>>haven't I ever heard anything (I'm a freshmen) so far about rape?
>>
>>I guess people who have been here longer would have some answers for me.
>>
>>thanks,
>>Nnennia
