Sexual violence on college campuses is becoming more prevalent, it seems, but most young women are keeping silent about the attacks. According to a survey conducted at the Massacusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, one in six undergraduate students has fallen victim, but only five percent report them.
The survey also revealed that one in five of the women who have been victims of sexual assault knew their attackers.
The MIT is one of the few schools to conduct such an in-depth survey about sexual assault occurring among their students and even one of the rarer schools still that have actually published the results.
According to the MIT, they emailed 11,000 of their graduate and undergraduate students to participate in the survey and had a 35 percent response rate.
