Students at both schools responded to the incidents with a pair of rallies protesting sexual assault in the past week.
The UMass student government co-sponsored a student rally last Tuesday with the university's Everywoman's Center. Center Director Carol S. Wallace said the rally served to publicize the incidents and educate people about sexual assault.
"We wanted to give people a forum to make whatever statements they wanted to make," Wallace said.
Wallace estimated that about 500 UMass and Amherst College students attended the rally.
And on Monday, Wallace said, 400 people attended an independent demonstration to criticize the administration's handling of the crisis.
Participants in the demonstration walked out of classes at 12:30 p.m. and formed a ring around the pond near the center of campus where two of the assaults occurred.
Some students, however, felt that a UMass-sponsored rally did not make up for what they felt was the university's sluggish response to the assaults.
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