You know, I wouldn't put it past administrators to craft something intentionally offensive and ridiculous in order to table the concept indefinitely. They get to show they "tried" to fulfill their federal obligation to monitor student safety when it comes to sexual assault, and they give naysayers ammunition to…

Were your surveys anonymous? The benefits afforded from completing your survey likely did not outweigh the potential negatives, but when the survey is administered to thousands of participants and specifically designed to protect the safety of an entire campus, the pro-con argument shifts.

Their privacy is not at issue. No one is going to be following them around, matching names to numbers. The university was only using student log-in information to keep record of who completed the requirement, and who refused. If some of the questions were irrelevant and skeevy, they should be removed, but the…

It needs to be required in order to assess what the current landscape is, and how best to improve it. It's anonymous. Nobody is going to be judging you, whether you're a virgin or a free love enthusiast or a student dying of AIDS. The backlash against this is ridiculous.

This was an online questionnaire, meant to be completed in privacy. Your shamey half-wit of an educator — and her ilk — would have been entirely and thankfully absent from the sex-ed program this school was attempting to provide its incoming students.

I very much doubt that's what this survey consisted of, but the reporting here is so scant and generalized, so feeble, it's no wonder you might think so.

I 100% agree with you. Resistance to the data-collecting surveys is strong, and they are the one thing that will put an actual quantifiable number on the incidence of sexual assault. It's hard to know what information is pertinent and what is not — for example, a student might not have identified an assault as an…

This happens to authors on Goodreads, too. An author friend of mine was forced to watch while trolls decided to spam her book (which they hadn't read) with 1-stars, because my friend pointed out the book was set in an alternate history when a random woman with a popular blog started proclaiming my author friend…