Published in 1988, the very year I went to Shasta with Kurt, reporter Robin Warshaw’s book revealed the results of Mary Koss’s Ms./NIMH-funded survey. Theirs was the first nationwide study of campus sexual assault ever, and the statistics rattled us all: Twenty-five percent of women in college have been the victims of rape or attempted rape. Eighty-four percent of these victims were acquainted with their assailants. Only 27 percent of women raped identified themselves as rape victims.
