Augustana College officials said Thursday that Rock Island police have determined a report of an attempted sexual assault on campus earlier this month was false.
Augustana spokeswoman Kamy Beattie said the student making the report violated the college's code of conduct, but a specific response from the college has yet to be determined.
"We're really looking at trying to weigh the concern for this individual and realizing we do have to hold a person accountable from our community that steps out of our expectations," she said. "It's up to the dean of student's office to determine what comes next."
She stated she did not know how police intend to proceed; an attempt to reach RockIsland police for comment was unsuccessful.
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"Augustana College officials said Thursday that Rock Island police have determined a report of an attempted sexual assault on campus earlier this month was false."
It's that time of year again when young college women all across the country suddenly realize that they've screwed themselves over by partying away the semester - and now their looking at either a poor final grades, or failing courses.
Fortunately, for a few who've managed to hear about tendency (although, as I have been recently told, seldom a published school policy) for colleges and universities to make exceptions for the victims of violent crimes, including allowing them to continue with their courses on a "pass/fail" basis (the logic being that victims could be expected to suffer serious set-backs, for which they should not have to suffer the consequences).
Some time back, when the subject of college girls lying about being raped (with an observable up-tic occurring between mid-terms and finals), when I was asked about my suggestion that such policies were common, I noted that I would speak to a Victim’s Advocate who had sought and received such special consideration for students who’d been the victim’s of (violent) crimes. Unfortunately, I’ve not yet had a chance to do so.
However, I can relate that my wife has had two cases in which college students were victimized, and in which this particular Victim’s Advocate has contact the school, and has gotten that very consideration for those victim/students without any resistance from the school. While neither was for a rape or sexual assault, it turns out that the crime doesn’t need to even be violent (at least if the victim is a woman).
In one case, a young man was seriously injured when attacked at a party (and spent some time in a hospital as a result). It made perfect sense that he should be not have the fact that his injuries prevented him from attending classes and being able to study force him to lose-out on the course he had paid for.
In the other case, a young woman complained that an ex-boyfriend was stalking her, and that she was afraid to go to the campus, and had fallen behind as a result. She too was summarily allowed to switch to a pass/fail status. [to be fair, her ex, who was not a student at the school, was later caught on campus armed with a knife, in violation of a restraining order – so her fears were not entirely unfounded.]
I bring this up (again) simply to suggest that we should expect to see more college FRA’s within the next month, as the fall semester draws to a close all around the country. I’m suggesting, in advance, that I know why this happens.
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