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  Tuesday, September 2, 2003



  Sexual Assault of Female Air Force Academy Cadets Is Much More
  Common Than Reported, Survey Finds

  By JEFFREY R. YOUNG
    
  
  Almost a quarter of the female cadets who graduated from the
  U.S. Air Force Academy this year were sexually assaulted at
  the academy, and nearly 12 percent were victims of attempted
  rape, according to preliminary results of a survey conducted
  by the Department of Defense. 
  
  The survey results, outlined in a report by the department's
  inspector general, were obtained by NBC News and posted on the
  MSNBC Web site last week (requires Adobe Reader, available
  free). 
  
  Lt. Col. Ken McClellan, a spokesman for the Defense
  Department, would not comment on the findings, which he said
  were a "preliminary assessment that was basically leaked" to
  reporters. He would not verify the survey data, but he said
  that "it looks like the real McCoy." He said a final report on
  the survey is due out "later this fall." 
  
  According to the current report, officials surveyed 581 of the
  academy's 659 female cadets in May. Their answers indicate
  that far more incidents of sexual assault or harassment occur
  at the institution than have been reported to authorities.
  Nearly 69 percent of female cadets said that at the academy
  they had experienced sexual harassment, which was defined in
  the survey as "unwanted and uninvited sexual attention." Among
  graduating seniors, 24 percent said they had been sexually
  assaulted. 
  
  The top reasons given by cadets for not reporting the
  incidents were fear of ostracism by peers and fear of being
  punished for other misconduct if they came forward. 
  
  Sen. Wayne Allard, a Republican of Colorado who has led
  Congressional inquiries into reports of sexual abuse at the
  academy, told the Rocky Mountain News last week that the
  survey data show "it's a worse problem than we were led to
  believe initially by the Air Force." 
  
  Air Force officials released a statement last week saying that
  the survey data are "consistent with the data to which the
  AF's own internal review had access." But an internal Air
  Force report, released in June, found that fewer than 5
  percent of female cadets and 1 percent of male cadets had been
  involved in allegations of sexual assault (The Chronicle, June
  20). 
  
  The statement noted that Air Force leaders are in the process
  of changing policies and practices and that "we will chart a
  fundamentally different course for the academy." 
  
  Cadets answering the survey were also optimistic about the
  future. Almost all of them, 96 percent, said they believe
  present leaders were "making honest and reasonable efforts to
  prevent or stop uninvited and unwanted sexual attention." 


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