Air Force officer parses rape

Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.: The officer formerly in charge of cadet discipline at the Air Force Academy evidently is curious about what constitutes sexual assault.
In an interview transcript released by an Air Force panel investigating 142 rapes reported at the academy since 1993, Col. Laurie Sue Slavec pondered the difference between consensual sex and rape.
Slavec indicated she had never heard of a "true rape" at the academy, which she defined as "somebody who was taken by force ... a true violent assault."
A slap at victims
In defining "true rape" that way, the colonel slaps the faces of anyone who has experienced acquaintance rape, or who has been assaulted by someone while not in full control of his or her faculties, when consent was impossible (including drunkenness, which, while regrettable, is nevertheless not an invitation to unwanted sex).
With officials in charge like Slavic, who blame female victims while seeming to excuse male cadets' "boys will be boys" behavior, is it any wonder there was -- perhaps still is -- a problem at the academy?