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College Releases Campus Rape Statistics

UHS officials said they do not yet have class year breakdowns for this information. The data--still in its preliminary form--has been released only to peer educator groups, including Peer Relations and Date Rape Education (PRDRE), AIDS Education Outreach (AEO) and Project Alcohol and Drug Dialogue (ADD).

Its release to the student body at large is pending the arrival of national statistics from the American College Health Association, according to UHS health educator Michael Hoyt.

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Hoyt said he hopes to release the information within two weeks, but said that national officials have not promised a certain date.

The information was released to the peer educator groups because they are "part of the team," Hoyt said, and the data is pertinent to their jobs.

"The peer groups go through extensive training," Hoyt said. "Peer educators have been involved in the development of this survey."

"It was really pertinent for them to have what the survey was telling us.... The peer educators work on campus prevention of issues in a broad scale,"

Hoyt, who trains the peer educator groups, said they have "greater context" to interpret the numbers than the student body at large and that waiting for the national numbers would allow students to interpret the data more fully.

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