An attorney who has worked with survivors for two decades says campus data alone can’t capture the full picture of sexual assault. <\/p>\n
AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A lawsuit\u00a0<\/a>filed by a former Cornell University student alleging she was drugged and sexually assaulted by seven fraternity members is reigniting conversations about sexual assault on college campuses and what happens when survivors come forward.<\/p>\n The former student alleges that seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity drugged and sexually assaulted her in 2024.<\/p>\n Attorney JoDee Neil, who has spent years working with survivors, said the case highlights the limitations of using data alone to understand the scope of sexual violence on college campuses.<\/p>\n \u201cI was gutted by the documented, complete lack of humanity in the circumstance, the crime that she survived,\u201d Neil said.<\/p>\n Neil said statistics cannot account for every survivor’s experience or the reasons someone may ultimately decide to report what happened.<\/p>\n \u201cThere’s no data point that can capture what I know to be true through two decades of working with survivors, and that is that survivors tell about what’s happened to them, because they want to protect other people from being hurt at a later date,” Neil said.<\/p>\n
\nWhat the numbers show at UT Austin <\/p>\n