Like virtually every private university in the United States, Yale has relied on “privacy” to keep these incidents under wraps, so that incoming women (and men) have no idea who among the faculty or students is dangerous; which fraternity is a site of repeated harassment or worse; and when to keep the door open on a student-teacher meeting. Like the Catholic Church, private universities like Yale can use victims’ shame and isolation to disenfranchise them and to protect the perpetrators.