A federal law is the reason UW System and Big Ten universities, including UW-Madison, have routinely underreported sexual assaults on their campuses, The Capital Times reported Saturday.
The law, which requires schools to report sexual-assault statistics annually, does not require them to report assaults reported to off-campus rape crisis centers.
The schools report far fewer sexual assaults per person than those reported for the general public.
Last year, after a similar investigation, UW-Madison officials revised the original number of sexual assaults they had reported from two to 19.
A rape counseling coordinator in River Falls told The Capital Times that with a student population of 5,500 there was
o way"" UW-River Falls had only one sexual assault in 2000, the number the school reported.
