"UHS was devoid of resources for sexual assault victims: there is no rape crisis center," she added.

According to Nadja B. Gould, a clinical social worker at UHS, the College's medical services does not treat enough rape victims each year to maintain staff members trained in specialized rape crisis procedures. UHS used to offer 24-hour rape counseling, but now Gould says while there are always mental health staff members on call, they are not specifically trained to handle sexual assault.

Dr. David S. Rosenthal '59, director of UHS, says his medical staff almost never performs rape kits, which allow medical personnel to collect evidence of the rape that can then be used in a trial.

"If they're not doing them very frequently, they aren't very comfortable doing them," Rosenthal said.

Instead, sexual assault victims must travel Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston to receive treatment from a qualified Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE). SANE nurses, Gould says, usually operate out of a hospital that sees at least 100 rapes a year.

Dr. Veronica Reed Ryback, the director of Beth Israel's Rape Crisis Intervention Center, says her hospital is the most comprehensive provider of these services in the Boston area.

"The reason [students] are brought over here is that in order to administer an evidence collection--they're a lot of details. It really needs to be done by an expert," Ryback said.

That is exactly what the undergraduate assaulted by Douglas says she chose to do in the aftermath of her attack.