It is late at night, and you are out walking alone. Suddenly you hear footsteps behind you. Your worst fears about who it is flash through your mind, and you break out in a cold sweat. You speed up, but the footsteps keep pace, and finally you turn. Then what?
….Madison campus residents are particularly on guard after media focus on campus stranger assaults this past year. Recent statistics show eight UW-Madison students were victims of serious stranger assaults in 2006, nearly three times the number assaulted by strangers in 2005. All but one of the stranger assault victims in the past two years were male.
The number of stranger assaults pales in comparison to the 43 students, primarily women, who reported sexual assaults in 2005.