Bill to address fake campus-rape epidemic goes too far

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'The White House stated in a January 2014 report, Rape and Sexual Assault: A Renewed Call to Action, that one in five women has been sexually assaulted while in college, an assertion repeated by Gillibrand during the press conference.

But this figure does not match data from the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics , released in October 2013, which show rape/sexual assault rates of 1.3 per 1,000 people in 2012, both reported and unreported rapes. It assumes a crisis where none exists, and interferes in university affairs for no cause.

University of Michigan professor Mark Perry has effectively debunked the CDC number using actual number of reported sexual assaults on college campuses combined with the White House’s underreporting percentage. He concludes that 3% to 5% of women will be sexually assaulted at college —too high, but not 20%.
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Then, some questions are ambiguous. For example, the survey asks, “When you were drunk, high, drugged, or passed out and unable to consent, how many people have had vaginal sex with you?” To a typical respondent, it is not clear whether the condition of “unable to consent” applies to “drunk, high, drugged,” or if “unable to consent” is a separate condition. Respondents who had consensual sex while drunk but were able to consent (not exactly an uncommon act on campuses these days) may answer affirmatively, leading the surveyor to wrongfully count this as an instance of rape.

Nevertheless, the survey is a catalyst for potentially harmful bipartisan legislation.

Under the bill, academic institutions would have to require all students to complete a uniform survey on sexual violence, with results being published online. But college students are busy and do not like to take surveys. How many college kids are going to take such a survey seriously? How will the university check the data?'