While UPD has found two reports of sex crimes to be false in August, the language in the alert to students tells more about the culture of victim-blaming than it does understanding why a women would wait to report such serious incidents.

Although some students may think filing false police reports is the only way out of certain situations, they may be completely unaware of the criminal charges they could face. UNF has seen four incidents of false police reports since October 2011.

Harvard University’s student newspaper, the Crimson, published an advertisement Sept. 8 asking students to “provide, with proof, the name of one person killed in a gas chamber at Auschwitz.” The...