Ada Gregory is the director of the Women’s Center at Duke University. She thinks campus rape is more prevalent at Duke than recent statistics suggest. In a nutshell, she believes that rapists are more manipulative and cunning than the average individual. She also believes that people who are manipulative and cunning have higher IQs. And, of course, Duke University is loaded with men who have higher IQs. So the Duke campus must be crawling with rapists.

Only five incidents of rape were reported on the campus of Duke University in 2007. So, over the summer, officials at Duke decided to change the sexual misconduct policy to encourage more victims to come forward.

Under the old policy, officials were required to report instances of faculty on student rape or staff on student rape. Under the new policy, when officials learn of student on student rape they must report it. The policy also mandates that the Women’s Center be notified every time there is an allegation of student on student rape.

The new policy at Duke will allow the Women’s Center to offer medical and psychological services to the alleged victim. This will give them more to do and help them appear to be even busier at a time when rape seems to be declining at Duke.

The Duke Chronicle recently quoted Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek as saying the following: “I hope the way women and men see this is as a supportive process that seeks to find the truth.”

Dean Wasiolek’s remarks suggest that there is some newfound need to “find the truth” now that the statistics show rape is declining at Duke. But what she fails to realize – or, perhaps, pretends to fail to realize – is that the decline in rape accusations at Duke is the result of a “process that seeks to find the truth.” It’s called our First Amendment freedom of press. Continued...