Jeanne Clery was a 19-year-old student at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. In April of 1986, she was brutally hurt, raped, and murdered. Her parents dropped her at school after her break, and only a week later “she had been raped, sodomized, beaten, bitten, strangled with a metal coil and mutilated with a broken bottle during the attack” (Fine, Gross). The alleged killer, Joseph M. Henry’s secret about killing the girl was announced to his friends, which made it easier to arrest him. Investigators found that there was a door, unlocked to her residential building, and after a night of drinking, he decided to enter the building. After this rape, the parents of Clery continued to investigate safety on campus and found a lacking of protection.…show more content… This assault happened at Stanford University, in 2016. The case involved a woman who was intoxicated, making her unconscious of everything during the night. She would not have realized what was happening until the authority informed her of what had occurred. As for much larger colleges like the UC system, University Of California at Berkeley, had to completely shut down their fraternity row before a game. There were a couple reported sexual assaults, according to CBS SF Bay Area, who also interviewed a student at Cal, Leona Chen and she stated that “it’s kind of scary walking around at night when you have to worry, not only about classes but also sexual assault”. Fraternity rows tend to throw the biggest parties on campuses, which have alcohol, free and open to students. Naturally, students take that opportunity to drink, little do they know the implications it can not only have on the body but it can also affect the safety of the student. This specific case at UC Berkeley was handled by the Inter-Fraternity Council, rather than the admissions department. Universities and Colleges are becoming more secretive after these events are occurring, on and off campus. In reality, everyone would be able to notice they are hiding this sort of information from students, parents, faculty and even the general public in order to protect the school's records, financial standings, and a constant increase in student population. This sort of information has become “the biggest revelation is that many colleges and universities misreport or downplay sexual assault information, which, according to one national study, isn't helped by the fact that 95 percent of students who are sexually victimized do not report the incident to authorities” (Greer). This quote suggests that the victims choose not to share the event because they know where their report would lay in the hands of the school and cops, which may not be
