Students Clarify Rape Reporting Process at Wesleyan

In response to an unusual signed student essay about being raped on campus, published in the Wesleyan Argus, two students, involved in the process of reviewing such reports, have written an explanation of the process in the same student newspaper.

One sentence of note indicates that there have been four rapes reported to the administration this year and that three of the accused have been found to be in violation ("most cases find the accused to be in violation: this year, three out of four cases have found the accused in violation. The administration takes the task of determining the validity of a claim of sexual assault very seriously and they will not convict a student of sexual assault unless a solid case can be made against them.")

Sunday, a former Wesleyan student, Jaclyn Freidman, wrote an essay for the Hartford Courant in which she recounted her experiences of being raped on campus.

Freidman will be a panelist at a Key Issues Forum on Campus Violence titled "The Person You Thing You Know: Signs and Solutions of Campus Violence" sponsored by the Hartford Courant on Tuesday, 6-7:15 PM.