Acquaintance rape on college campuses

One of the issues colleges and universities have had to face in recent years is the growing problem of sexual assault on their campuses. Koss (1988) found that 27% of college women surveyed in a national sample of 6,159 students enrolled in 32 colleges and universities across the country were victims of sexual assault. Rape, forced oral or anal intercourse, and/or sexual experiences in which intercourse is not involved are included within the definition of sexual assault. Rape, in its broadest sense, is \u27\u27the act of physically forcing a woman to have sexual intercourse (Webster\u27s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, 1989, p. 1191 ). Rape occurs under at least three circumstances. These include: (1) stranger rape, in which the victim does not know the assailant; (2) acquaintance rape, in which the victim and assailant know each other; and (3) date rape, in which the assault takes place when the victim and assailant are on a date (Koss & Harvey, 1991 )