UNC always has and always will be operated by the - good old boys club. Secret meetings and closed doors.

UNC needs to stop worrying about the success of their football & basketball teams ($$$$$$$) and get back to educating, but when you allow liberals to take over this is what you get- liars, egos and repeated scandals.

UNC in trouble again? I can't decide if they are just under the spotlight, and getting called out for things most schools do, or if they really are just arrogant and thought they wouldn't get caught. But I find the "1 in 4" number hard to believe: I agree...few would send their daughter to college if that is true.

I live in Chapel Hill. They are lying their, well you know what where.

Boy the news coming out of UNC just gets better and better.

When a rape survivor talks to an official who then completes a report calling the crime an assault, is that underreporting? I would say yes, but the climate is and has been such on campuses that they routinely play around with the numbers.

We are going to have to educate people to understand that rape and similar crimes are underreported to law enforcement, and that higher report statistics makes it clear that the campus atmosphere is supportive of survivors, not that there are, necessarily, more rapes occuring.

But because so few people read past the headline or hear past the soundbite, administrations will continue to lie in order to protect their institutions.

People will get judgmental about a survivor's behavior or clothin. The facts will be ignored: some people (most of whom are men, but not all) rape people (most of whom are women and girls, but not all), because there is so much about the culture that tells them that they are allowed to.

And Thorpe is the captain of this sinking ship.

"This is systematic. 1 in 4 college women will be a victim of attempted rape or rape. Either rapes are being grossly, grossly underreported or universities, through their title VIIII coordinators are trying to sweep sexual assaults on college campuses under the rug."

Some statistics show that 95% of sexual assaults go unreported due to feelings of guilt, shame, fear, etc. So yeah, it's a major problem, but the university can only report those cases about which they have been made aware. All the more reason it is imperative our society stops demonizing victims and starts to hold the perpetrators truly accountable!

And here is a third possibility: Your stat of 1 in 4 college women being victimized is wrong. If this was true, would you or anyone else send your daughters off to college?

Carolina sure has a mighty big rug. They have a pile roughly the size of Mount Everest that they have swept under it.

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