This applies, of course, to rapes that took place before students came to Calvin and after they came to Calvin. In our work with the RTSA and in the Broene Center we see evidence of this all the time. It's important for students to remember the impact alcohol and drugs have on sexual assaults. We note all of this not to diminish any of our students who have been raped, either before or after coming to campus. Our RTSA often helps students work through assaults that took place in the past, before they came to Calvin, so it was good for us to get a better perspective on the numbers we are dealing with.
Rape is awful whenever or wherever it takes place.
But the reality is that on-campus rape at Calvin is a very rare thing. We need to work toward eliminating it from our community altogether. It is important for both men and women to recognize that acquaintance rape is the most common form of rape on college campuses. That is the message we were hoping our survey, and your story, would communicate.