Recently The National Sexual Violence Resource Center released some frightening yet eye opening statistics that force us to put the epidemic of campus sexual assault into perspective. According to The National Sexual Violence Resource Center one in five women and one in sixteen men will be sexually assaulted while in college, even more terrifying is that 63.3% of men at one university who self-reported acts qualifying as rape or attempted rape admitted to committing repeat rapes.
College campuses around the country have as of late been under a microscope because of student conduct and high profile cases of sexual assault. The controversy itself is Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments, “Title IX requires schools to take active steps towards eliminating discrimination of the basis of sex,
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Following the Alexander v. Yale case in which the court ruled that a school’s failure to adequately remedy sexual harassment could constitute sex discrimination (prohibited by Title IX) Yale created a grievance board to hear and address their student’s complaints. Colleges across the country began following suite and implemented their own grievance boards. While change and reform is good, it does not always mean a job well done. Title IX without appropriate university response, does more harm than good, it opens civil rights violations by giving universities the ok to allow untrained professionals to investigate sexual assaults and dole out punishments as they see fit. Title IX is a double edged sword, at first glance it seems like an attractive second option for students who have been sexually