If anyone out there has a daughter attending or about to attend a so-called place of higher learning in the U.S., after this week you have a legitimate right to wonder A) just how safe she’ll be on campus, and B) if she will be treated with the respect she deserves considering how the whole experience costs your family tens of thousands of dollars annually in tuition and fees.
That’s because Sen. Claire McCaskill’s just-released survey of how 440 higher ed institutions deal with sexual violence on campus is even worse than you might have imagined.
Apparently, schools really believe that, by doing nothing, ignorance masks their sexism.
It doesn’t.
By now, just from that Justice Department finding earlier this year, we know there’s a real problem when just 5 percent of rape victims even report their incident to law enforcement.
So just how bad are things?
We don’t really know.
