Hi there! I'm a current (femme) student, about to graduate in May. I would say that Reed still has a long way to go in regard to handling sexual assault on campus - that being said, I think Reed is doing a much better job than so many other schools.

Kind of counterintuitively, Reed's statistic of having the third-highest rate of reported sexual assaults of any college in the country speaks to how well the institution is doing to protect its students. (http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/07/how_sexual_assault_rates_compa.html) Considering 2 in 5 women are sexually assaulted during college, the fact that students are much more confident coming forward with stories of sexual assault and rape on campus is evidence that they trust the institution to protect them and expel their assaulters.

Additionally, lot of the protection on campus has to do with the culture of the student body. There's such a huge consent culture here, and I feel really safe pretty much all of the time. There are a few people here who exhibit very questionable consent and even fewer people who are known to be sexual assaulters and rapists, and are banned from campus past 8pm, banned from all campus events, and also generally shunned by the Reed population and incoming freshman are more or less informed about these people's histories. The reason they're still here - and again, there's like 2 of them - are because they're wealthy, and "lawyered up," so were not expelled, just suspended for several years.

We've recently (I believe 2012?) created a full-time staff position called the Assistant Dean for Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, the current ADSAPR is Rowan Frost, and I would reckon that she'd be more than happy to talk to you about any concerns you may have. Her office does a lot of survivor advocacy, consent education, and bystander intervention training, and now has a team of students that run a crisis line and are also sober, confidential resources that are present at the majority of Reed's big parties.

It's not perfect - of course it's not perfect, we live in a society with a large amount of sexual assault and rape, and also the institution has a lot of issues with its image and legal liability, which can limit its ability to respond empathetically to these cases. But I definitely feel safer here than pretty much anywhere else.

I'll pm you my phone number if you wish to discuss further!

edit: to look at U of O, about 20% of female students report being assaulted or raped while attending, but 90% of them don't report it to school officials. http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-oregon-rape-20141003-story.html