Here is a hopefully somewhat educated opinion on rape. This topic is avoided like the plague here, and it's about time people started to realize that it's a real problem. Rape does exist at Notre Dame, in proportions comparable to all other colleges. As much as I'd like to believe that my school offers a perfectly safe environment, I know this isn't the case. One good way to help stop rape is to let people know about it.
Rape is an issue about which almost everyone here is ignorant.
For example, it IS true that one out of every four college women is raped. Counting weekends sparsely, that's about 20 Notre Dame women per weekend night. Contemplating the number and nature of dorm and off-campus parties here, this figure isn't hard to believe. Also, while I recognize that alcohol and pornography are both catalysts in causing rape, they themselves are not causes. People are causes.