Undercover Researchers Quizzed School Administrators On Sex Assault Policies. What They Found Is Disturbing.

Those who handle reports of campus sexual assault at colleges and universities know quite a bit about their own policies and procedures, but some of the things they believe about sexual assault should worry parents of incoming students — mainly parents of incoming male students.

Researchers at the University of New Hampshire conducted a survey where they posed as students and asked campus police and Title IX offices (the offices that handle sexual assault claims) a series of questions about sexual assault. The first five questions dealt with campus procedures (e.g., where do students report sexual assault, does a report automatically trigger an investigation, etc.), but the sixth and seventh questions were designed to find out if these professionals believed “rape myths.”