A third way that colleges and universities could help victims of rape would be to make rape easier to report and to follow through with prosecution. Many victims of rape, especially young college girls, claim that they fear reporting their rape case because they are afraid that they are the one's that will be treated as criminals. They are afraid that their past sexual history would be used against them and that their reputations on campus would be ruined. A portion of the resolution proposed to the California colleges, called "for a protection of the victim's rights (a woman's sexual history may not be used against her) and it urged campus counseling centers to increase their capacity to deal with date rape" (Findlen 73). Such a resolution would give rape victims a sense of security and encourage them to report rape with the help of campus counseling centers.
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