Safety

Ranking colleges based on reported number of rapes, as The Washington Post has done, may attract much publicity, but researchers and advocates say doing so is misguided.

Colleges in the area try to reassure students. Press reports say two victims were students. Nationwide, attack on gay club prompts vigils, discussion and sadness.

The Stanford University sexual assault case raises crucial issues about gender, class and race, writes Marybeth Gasman.

Amid scandal over mishandling of sexual assault cases involving football players, new senior administrator discusses how the university plans to move forward.

A shooting at a college can damage one's sense of identity, assumptions about safety and beliefs about the holiness of education, writes Megan Doney.

Apparent murder of a professor follows a day of terror on campus and reflects a kind of violence that is rare but feared.

Ken Starr resigns as president. University fires football coach. Analysis released by institution finds numerous cases in which it mishandled sexual violence involving football players.