Letter to the Editor

Barry O’Connell, James E. Ostendarp Professor of English, critiques Professor Dumm’s letter and discusses social life at Amherst. Look once again at Professor Dumm’s letter in last Wednesday’s Student. What exactly does it imply? That one group of students on campus, male athletes — especially football players, bears primary responsibility for acts of sexual violence and for coercing others in covering them up. The evidence for such grave claims? Questionable studies and suppositions against th