tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10384575.post114625860087257187..comments2024-01-02T17:48:07.739-05:00Comments on The Little Green Blog: Sorry for all the TextNathan Bruschihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01335558831525808820noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10384575.post-1146486372791967702006-05-01T08:26:00.000-04:002006-05-01T08:26:00.000-04:00"This begs the question: do these bags think that ..."This begs the question: do these bags think that Leah Prescott, who gets paid to think about and deal with sexual assault at Dartmouth, is lying, or do they think she is incompetent? Do they think she is out to get the fraternity system? Do you really think the College is going to make up violent crime statistics just go get a few drunk guys off their lawns? What the fuck kind of movie are these people living in?"<BR/><BR/>connor - Wait - so this blitz carefully works through the statistics and points out some serious questions with the 17% number, questions that you don't even bother to refute. Any you dismiss the arguement outright with "but Leah Prescott says that it's so". <BR/><BR/>By that vein, maybe we should believe George Bush's assertions on Iraq - despite the evidence otherwise, because he is paid to study such things and he says it's so. Personally, I like to look at the evidence that the assertion is based upon. <BR/><BR/>Maybe she bases her assertion on another more accurate study and maybe not. Maybe she was informally asked a question and made a quick off-the-cuff order-of-magnitude answer. We don't know. The one thing that we do know is that the specific method by which 17% has been determined is faulty when specifically applied to Dartmouth. Unless the 17% number is verified, we should stop throwing it around. <BR/>Instead, accept the fact that rape is a serious problem - even in the unlikely situation that it is only limited to the number of officially reported cases at Dartmouth. <BR/><BR/>In the meantime, add to the Dartmouth senior exit survey questions about sexual assault and publish them. This can be done this spring. This should be the first thing advocated by the new student assembly president. By mid-June, we can have reliable data from 500 female Dartmouth students on their experience with sexual assault.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com