Campus Assault News Today

A Wolf Alert went out to students and staff on NC State campus just before 1 a.m. Thursday morning on the assault.

  Following a lengthy process for notice and comment, the U.S. Department of Education, under former Secretary Betsy DeVos The new rule formally recognizes, for the first time, that sex harassment is a form of unlawful sex discrimination under Title IX. In the investigation and adjudication of sexual misconduct allegations on campus, it requires schools to give written notice of sexual misconduct allegations to both complainants and respondents; to afford equal opportunity to both parties to c...

>> that is the problem with handling this on campus. it is difficult to deal with the criminal system but it gives everyone on both sides due process. >> a rape is a crime so why is this being handled in the college courts? >> colleges are taking them under their wing deepkeeping them secret, the cause is not a criminal trial. >> it is not up to the college. it is up to the administration. >> and the department of education. >> that is right. under title 9 which says you cannot discriminate and ...

>> i also think that it is striking to me that this example of campus sexual assault that was printed and now retracted was so extreme and so outside the norm of the bell curve if you can call it that of routine sexual campus assault which is not as gruesome as the one that is depicted there, but as gruesome in every way to the actual survivors of them. and that is part of the problem. conceiving of things as crimes themselves. >> i think the media has done a service to survivors by covering the...

All studies show most often sexual assaults on campus involving one or two people acquaintances or friends, thats the vast majority of campus assault is all about. unfortunately this story painted a very different picture. >> that does bring into question the concern by many that perhaps this story, this review of this story, whatever fallacies there were is certainly going to make an impact on the reporting and investigating of alleged sexual assault cases, whether they be on campus or otherwis...

Virginia to lift its suspension of greek activities after rolling stone acknowledged fu fufbdmental flaw. >> lets look at that story and the issue of nation wide campus assault. >> a year ago last march, a justice department study found based on police data that between 1995 and 2010, the annual incident of sexual assaults on women in americaed a declined by 58% to a rate of 2.1 assaults per 1,000 women. you might think that such striking numbers would give pause to the activists including presi...