2 More Colleges Accused of Mishandling Assaults
Source: The New York Times
Swarthmore and Occidental Colleges on Thursday joined the list of elite institutions accused of mistreating victims of sexual assault and harassment, and activists say they are preparing similar accusations against other well-known colleges.
Complaints filed against Occidental with the federal Department of Education allege violations of a federal civil rights law known as Title IX, and another federal law, the Clery Act, which requires full public reporting of campus crime. They seek investigations by the Department of Education.
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"For the entirety of my last year in college, I continued to live every day in fear," Kenda Woolfson, a recent graduate, said at the news conference. "In May, I watched as my rapist shook the hand of our college's president and received his diploma, and I wished I had not been discouraged by a dean from reporting the rape."
Carly Mee, now a senior, said, "When I told an administrator that I did not feel safe, I was told that I had nothing to worry about, that she had met with my rapist, and that he didn't seem like the type of person who would do something like that."
Read more: http://nytimes.com/2013/04/19/education/swarthmore-and-occidental-colleges-are-accused-of-mishandling-sexual-assault-cases.html
Ouch. When the SYSTEM is weighed against women, expect vigilante justice against rapists. In 2000, a woman TRANSFERED OUT of the University of Washington because Jerramy Stevens, the star football player whom she accused of rape, never faced ANY discipline from the university AND the Seattle police pulled strings to let the case go, as this hard hitting Seattle Times article revealed in 2008. Read the Wikipedia article about Stevens to see his LONG criminal history AND lack of punishments! In a just world, he never would have been the spoiled athlete he was. And colleges would actually treat rape as a serious matter not to be swept under the rug.
