About 13 percent of women surveyed said they'd been stalked during the school year. We defined it as being pursued in a persistent manner in a way that made you feel afraid. Thirteen percent being stalked in some way, that's a pretty surprising number and pretty significant. You're talking about the quality of life for women on a college campus. Hiring more police is not going to work, for example, because most people who are getting assaulted aren't assaulted in public where police could prevent it.
Most attacks occur in living quarters, according to the report.
Victim advocates and lobbyists in Washington hope the study will help increase awareness of college sexual assault, and will help spawn more programs to address the problem. I don't know any women who have been on a college campus for very long and don't know someone who hasn't had a sexual assault or an attempted sexual assault. While the study has been touted as a realistic view of assault on college campuses, experts are wary that change will come quickly. If you take a broader perspective about how many times women are alone with men drinking in a room on any Friday night, you're talking about a tiny fraction of those instances resulting in sexual assault. You've got this situation that is almost routine in some ways, but it does expose women to risk.