LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Pa. (AP) -- A Philadelphia university president has apologized for remarks about sexual assault at a gathering of female students two months ago. Lincoln University president Robert Jennings had told the audience at the All Women's Convocation in September that there had been three false rape accusations during the previous semester. He said such allegations can ruin a young man's life, and he urged them not to put themselves in a situation where they would be "trying to explain something that really needs no explanation." Portions of the remarks were posted on the Internet and some parents criticized them as appearing to blame women for sexual assault. In a message posted on the university's website, Jennings said he had not intended to hurt or offend anyone and intended only "to emphasize personal responsibility and mutual respect." "Sexual misconduct will not be tolerated at Lincoln University," he said, urging students to report any suspicion of sexual misconduct to university police or officials. In his September remarks, Jennings warned the female students that men can deceive and exploit them and urged them to respect themselves and demand respect from men, The Philadelphia Inquirer (http://bit.ly/1Eq7Y71) reported. "Men treat you, treat women, the way women allow us to treat them. ... We will use you up if you allow us to use you up," he said, adding that men will "marry the girl with the long dress on." He told the audience of three cases on campus during the previous semester "of young women who after having done whatever they did with young men and then it didn't turn out the way they wanted it to turn out, guess what they did? They went to Public Safety and said: 'He raped me.'" Jennings said such allegations can ruin a young man's life. He told the newspaper his remarks were taken out of context. The university said the three cases were investigated and were reported to authorities, but prosecutor Michael Noone said he had no reports of rapes at Lincoln from last semester, only an attempted sex assault allegation that was dropped because of a lack of evidence, not because the woman recanted. Chemistry professor Robert Langley, president of the faculty union, said he disagreed with Jennings' remarks but found his apology to be sincere. "Women are not partly responsible for rape," Langley said. "They're not."