<p>this is how Reed is reported to have handled a case
recently.</p>
<p>A student wants her rape to count, and Portland's Reed College reels
Sunday, December 12, 2004
Susan Nielsen</p>
<p>A lison Mahan said she was raped last fall in her dorm room at Reed College. Afterward, she tried to do the right thing.</p>
<p>She told her parents. She said she met with the dean of students and the head of security for the Southeast Portland college. Her parents said they met with the dean, too.</p>
<p>None of this was enough for Mahan to be counted.</p>
<p>Reed shows zero reports of sexual assaults in the past three years of its federally mandated crime statistics. Its dean of students and head of campus security say rape hasn't been a problem at Reed. It wasn't until this month, when Mahan went public, that Reed said it would count the alleged crime in its data.</p>
<p>Now the venerable private college must face the truth. Whether the college had a misunderstanding with the Mahans, a communication breakdown or something worse, Reed can do better. Its prevention programs are inadequate, its reporting policies are muddled and its administration is in denial. These common problems have a Reed twist:</p>
<p>The school puts so much faith in its students' exceptionalism that it simply doesn't believe they are very vulnerable to the real-world problem of rape. >snip></p>