Penfield
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I have never heard of anything remotely close to this happening at UCONN.
Unfortunately I don't think we get to throw stones and point fingers in this situation. In the Rolling Stone article you may have noticed this line "The University of Virginia is one of the 86 schools now under federal investigation, but it has more reason to worry than most of its peers." Yup you guessed it, UConn is one of those other schools. Might not be as serious a situation as UVA, but its nothing to gloss over either.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...a74810-d13b-11e3-937f-d3026234b51c_story.html
Also, in May UConn paid $1.3 million to settle a lawsuit with 5 women who claimed the school did not take their claims of sexual assault seriously.
"The bulk of the settlement, $900,000, will go to Silvana Moccia, a former UConn hockey player who joined the Title IX lawsuit last December, a month after it was originally filed by four other women. She alleged she was kicked off the team after reporting she had been raped by a male hockey player in August 2011." http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/2014/07/18/settlement-in-title-ix-lawsuit-against-uconn/
This was before anyone cared about the men's hockey team. They weren't covering it up to protect a star athlete, but covering it up because that's apparently what universities do.
The rape described in the Rolling Stone article was horrific, but just because we haven't heard of a similar crime (Kavanaughed) being committed at UConn doesn't mean the same overall issue doesn't exist here. What boggles my mind is how universities in general attempt to portray their campuses as safe by minimizing these crimes instead of trying to actually make their campus safe by removing sexual predators. I think the one thing UConn has going for it is that the fraternity culture is not as strong as it is at many southern or elite schools.
I don't want you to think I am picking on you specifically. I have not seen anyone really mention our own problems in this thread. I read the RS article yesterday and was completely disgusted. One of my first thoughts after reading was if UConn is also being investigated I wonder what terrible things have happened on our campus.