An e-mail from a Georgia Tech fraternity member to his Phi Kappa Tau brothers came to light this week . It was about how to `` succeed at parties , '' or more specifically `` luring your rapebait . '' It came with repulsively detailed instructions about how to scope out a target , weaken her defenses with alcohol , grab her and -- you get the idea . You can expect well-meaning commentators and bloggers to wonder how such a horrible man could have done such a thing , much less have gotten into a good college . Others will wonder why one fraternity 's culture would be so toxic . University officials will go into damage-control mode , noting how they hold students accountable for violations of policy and that they have an otherwise low rate of rape on their campus . They may say , well , this was just an e-mail . Sadly , it 's all so predictable . The `` rapebait '' e-mail could have been sent from almost any fraternity at almost any American college or university . A study I published in 2007 with my colleagues Jerry Tatum and J.T . Newberry found that fraternity men were three times more likely to commit rape than other men on college campuses . It was the third study showing that fraternity men are three times more likely to rape . Opinion : We can counter `` rapebait '' culture . The definition of `` success '' in the e-mail sounds eerily similar to what David Lisak identifies as rape in his research on profiling `` undetected rapists '' -- college men who have committed rape and/or attempted rape , an average of six times each , but are never reported and never are held accountable for their crimes . What was particularly remarkable about our study is that we found that it was the fraternity experience that led men to be more likely to rape . We traced entering freshmen from the time they got to campus through their first year of college . We asked them whether they committed acts of sexual violence before they got to college ( many had ) . We then compared the rates of sexual assault among men who joined fraternities to the rates of sexual assault among men who did not join fraternities . In 2011 : Vermont fraternity chapter closed over rape survey . What we found was highly instructive . Before they got to college , fraternity men were no different from other male students . They committed the same number of incidents of sexual assaults before college . But here 's the difference . Guys who joined a fraternity then committed three times as many sexual assaults as those who did n't join . It is reasonable to conclude that fraternities turn men into guys more likely to rape . Our study confirmed that fraternities provide the culture of male peer support for violence against women that permits bad attitudes to become treacherous behavior . And that should concern everyone . We need more action . Opinion : Why do n't some boys see it as rape ? There are a lot of us across the country who have worked for decades trying to prevent rape on college campuses . Many experience high levels of frustration at the lack of commitment on the part of colleges and universities to face the issue . Rarely does a college discuss sexual assault with its students for more than 60 minutes in an entire college career , if they do at all . There are many great approaches to prevention . In our case at One in Four , we have spent the last 20 years refining an intervention that lasts for one hour called the Men 's Program . Our research , published in peer-reviewed journals , shows that when fraternity men see it , 40 % fewer sexual assault incidents occur . One would think that national fraternities would embrace such an approach to educating their members . Sadly , when given numerous opportunities to do so , they prefer to pretend they are n't responsible . Though there are a few universities that are beginning to do more comprehensive prevention programming , they are the exception . We know that prevention programming can help a great deal . We just need to make it a priority . How difficult is that ?
John Foubert : Georgia Tech frat member sent e-mail to brothers on `` luring your rapebait '' Foubert says studies show fraternity men three times more likely to rape . The University of Georgia's student newspaper has published a story about the alleged sexual assault and harassment by members of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. Foubert : Colleges must push for rape prevention programming .