I understand your concern for your loved ones, and if they are not supporters of Slobodan Milosevic, then I join you in your prayers for their safety. You say you do not support Milosevic's regime, but doing nothing will not stop it. Although these well-intentioned efforts will probably make some women safer at night and may prevent some rapes, the campus response falls far short of what is needed to squarely attack the epidemic of sexual violence. A fine line divides placing the responsibility on women for preventing rape and assigning them the responsibility for being raped. In our culture, too much responsibility for the regulation of human sexuality is already placed on women.
Prevention is ineffectual in eliminating the conditions under which rape has become widespread.
The campus debate about rape and sexual assault needs to include both women and men and should be both comprehensive in its scope and public in its coverage. Given the size of this problem on campus, the university must initiate programs in which this dialogue can be maintained.