Changing How Colleges Deal With Rape
Frustrated by the way universities handled their allegations, students are outmaneuvering their administrators
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Sofie Karasek spent her freshman year at the University of California at Berkeley the way most college kids do. She got used to roommates. She went to parties. She learned to wear shorts in winter—which, as a Boston transplant, she found “totally weird.” And in February 2012 she signed up for a three-day retreat with a student political club, joining 34 other undergrads on a trip to San Diego.
At the retreat, Karasek, now 20, shared a cramped hotel room with a dozen other students. At around 3:30 a.m. that first night, she woke up to find the guy next to her had his hand down her pajamas.