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College women are much more likely to get raped than their non college bound peers because there's too much alcohol and they don't know how to protect themselves from an attack. When I went down for freshman orientation, the admin./ student speakers reiterated over and over that women shouldn't let others buy drinks for them, etc., because everyone's concerned about date rapes/ sexual assaults while intoxicated. Plus, most campus rapes are of the date rape variety, much less likely to go unreported than violent assaults by strangers.

Moreover, there's still a tendency to blame the victims for a rape/ sexual assault especially if it was a date rape or she was at a party and passed out. There was a case in suburban Lake County, IL (where I live) last year where the perpetrators gave the 16-year-old victim alcohol (I think it was likely laced with the date rape drug) and after she passed out taped themselves gang-raping her. Unfortunately, a hotshot attorney got the little sleazes off by blaming the victim.

College women are much more likely to get raped than their non college bound peers because there's too much alcohol and they don't know how to protect themselves from an attack.

My daughter is a college freshman. My policy to her was that she's years away from being of legal drinking age, and so I do not want her anywhere where alcohol is served. And that if I find out she's been to one she's on curfew from that point on

Moreover, there's still a tendency to blame the victims for a rape/ sexual assault especially if it was a date rape or she was at a party and passed out.

If a girl gets drunk at a party and then gets behind the wheel of a car, she is still fully liable for the consequences. In fact, she is MORE liable by virtue of the fact that she allowed herself to become impaired

If a guy and a woman get equally drunk at a party, and decide that having sex is a good idea, the woman is completely absolved from having given consent because she was drunk, yet the guy's being equally drunk in no way reduces his liability for his actions. So he goes to jail for being too drunk to be able to decide whether she was too drunk to be able to give informed consent

I have a simpler policy: don't get drunk, and don't get stoned. And don't hang out with people who do