Wednesday, June 29, 2016

"Fraternities and their insurance brokers have fought our attempts to gain access to these statistics."

June 29, 2016


That's a quote from a May 15, 2014 Time magazine article called "'Universities and Fraternities Must Tell the Whole Truth' About Sexual Violence."


This is the address for the article:




Quotes from the article:

"Universities and fraternities hide the truth about sexual violence on campus even though women need this information to protect themselves.  While universities are required by federal law to publicly report certain incidents of crime, including rape, those reports are often inaccurate and never detailed."


"The National Association of Insurance Commisioners ranked fraternities as the sixth worst insurance risk in this country, just behind hazardous waste disposal companies and asbestos contractors.  One insurance broker for fraternities boasts of handling more than 6,000 claims and $60,000,000 in payouts.  There are many hurt women in those numbers."




Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, June 29, 2016 @ 5:15 p.m.