Rampant reports of rape and violence against women on our college campuses continue to headline the national news.  While rape remains a horrific crime, my limited exposure to reports of violence against women on campus makes me seriously doubt Joe Biden’s claim that twenty percent of women have been assaulted while attending college. More than a few years ago, my wife, my teenage daughter and I set out on that most American of rituals, visiting colleges in search of that perfect school. We were on the East Coast swing looking at Bryn Mar, Hamilton, Colgate, Vassar, Yale and Barnard. There is a method to this process, which starts by visiting the Admission office on each campus, listening to 15 minute welcoming speech, taking a 90 minutes walking tour of the school, and then talking, off the record, to some actual students to get the real low down on academics, drugs and drinking, and the social mix. At our last stop at Barnard, while waiting for the tour to begin, I...(Read Full Post)