Maybe they saw their friends get away with the same thing, because of their social status. In Missoula, examples of college athletes escaping sexual assault came to light: “In December 2010, four of Beau Donaldson's teammates on the UM football team allegedly gang-raped a female student while she was too drunk to resist, and because the football players claimed the sex was consensual, they were not charged with a crime” (Krakauer. 8). If these four men had different skin colors and were from a lower class neighborhood, would they still get away with it? To add to that, Missoula also shows exactly how fans refuse to believe their favorite athlete is guilty of rape. In the Missoula book, there is a page that shows what a football player's fans must have thought about the arrest of one of their beloved players. It's a page full of online comments like "That can't be true, he's from Montana!" » (Krakauer,