These IHEs Are Failing On Handling Sexual Assaults

Officials at the University of Massachusetts Amherst this week acknowledged that they allowed a student who confessed to raping a friend on campus last fall, a felony, to remain enrolled and avoid significant discipline. The case is symbolic of what victims and the advocates and lawyers who represent them in the college disciplinary process contend is a widespread failure of schools to issue tough sanctions against perpetrators.  Of the more than 240 alleged assaults the schools reported between 2003 and 2008, four led to expulsions. Read more at:
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2010/02/25/no_crackdown_on_assaults_at_colleges/