More than 3,300 colleges across the country were considered. Allan Hancock was on the list once before. About a third of the college's students in the fall semester were Hispanic, according to college officials. Most of the victims about 90 percent knew their assailants, according to the study, based on anonymous telephone surveys of close to 9,000 women enrolled in higher education in the 1996 fall semester. Carol Mosely, the Rape Prevention Coordinator at UCSB, said the 3 percent figure seemed on target from her experience with the university's population of 9,632 women.
Rape is still vastly under-reported.
You have to understand that the majority of college-age women are deeply affected by these unwanted sexual experiences. Many women believe that it will be a stranger jumping out of the bushes with a knife. When it's someone you know or trust, or someone you're possibly interested in romantically, it can be very difficult to accept. Mosely said that UCSB will conduct its own sexual assault study this spring, the first since 1986. Surveys will be mailed out to 5,300 students, both men and women, in February.