Thursday, May 17, 2012

Harvard is not a place my daughter will go

So I spied this article today:
http://elitedaily.com/elite/slideshows/dangerous-colleges/#?slide=3&_suid=133730028874108111631217679012

And it's pretty grim stuff, but what I did notice is that amongst the most dangerous schools in the country, Harvard, a citadel of learning and ethics, is apparently the rapiest school in the country.  They have the most forcible rapes of any school in the top 10 most dangerous schools in the country.  And not the most per school size, because there are larger schools with less forcible rapes.  I'm not trivializing rape, an awful crime which deserves punishment, but that's a pretty bad statistic.  I wonder if it will make it into Harvard's stats in US News and World Reports rankings. Maybe there is even some explanation for this statistic, maybe a more active women's rights movement or a more vocal female group on campus, maybe the campus police and the local police handle reports of rape differently than the other schools on that list.  I actually pray that's the case, because if it's not, shame on you Harvard. Being the Rapiest School in the Country is nothing to smirk about.

This is the kind of post that could get me in trouble but so be it.