tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56551028606819488992023-11-16T04:11:23.499-08:00September SiblingsRemember the 1972 February Sisters who occupied the East Asian Studies building at the University of Kansas, demanding equal rights for women at KU? Meet the September Siblings-an homage to the past while honoring inclusivity at #aGreatPlaceToBeUnsafe. Support our demands for the KU administration at bit.ly/kudemands.September Siblingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05676283079001304428noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655102860681948899.post-28786721503920639562014-10-07T09:06:00.001-07:002014-10-07T09:06:21.305-07:00Letter to the Editor From KU English Department
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<span class="paragraph-0">Dear KU Community,<br />
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<span class="paragraph-1">The Department of
English wishes to take up the challenge issued by the September Siblings
and other students to examine the institutional climate in which sexual
violence has been able to cause widespread and too-often unacknowledged
suffering. Specifically, we wish to answer the call made by Alesha
Doan, Chair of WGSS and co-chair of the Sexual Assault Task Force to
follow these students’ courageous example and continue to speak out. It
is our responsibility as a community to keep breaking the silence, to
draw attention to the pervasive patterns of sexual violence which our
culture tolerates, to call for and actively support changes in policy
and implementation that prevent and punish such violence, and to make
ourselves and others accountable for seeing that such changes become
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In our role as an academic unit, we can best
address this through teaching and research. We often witness the impact
of sexual violence on the lives of our students. In our classrooms, we
need to practice structuring inclusive conversations about systemic
violence and sexual assault and the pain and damage they cause. There
are many ways we can do this — through the texts we teach, in discussion
of current events and by using language that respects the seriousness
of sexual violence. These conversations can connect students with one
another and with their teachers in ways that produce powerful learning
experiences, even as they raise consciousness about a pervasive and
deadly problem. Teachers need to be trained in leading discussion around
these issues as well as in how to best provide first-response support.
As instructors, we need to be ready to direct students who confide in us
to resources that can provide the strongest forms of survivor advocacy
(e.g. the Emily Taylor Resource Center and Lawrence-based GaDuGi). As an
institution we need to act to ensure that those resources are truly
robust.<br />
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The task force has been charged by our chancellor
with examining KU policy, practices and sanctions, the Code of Student
Rights and Responsibilities, and the adequacy of survivor services and
prevention programs. Even as members began working on these immediate
goals, their first meeting also powerfully highlighted our
responsibility and our opportunity as a research institution to become a
national leader in prevention and survival. Two of our Bold Aspirations
strategic initiatives, “Promoting Wellbeing” and “Building
Communities,” invite us to link research opportunities with prevention
programs, to generate and analyze data and to open up critical
conversations that together can drive decisions about prevention, safety
and survivor needs.<br />
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We are proud of our students for speaking out and
we take their demands seriously. We are grateful to the task force
members who have taken on this crucial work. We need to help put their
recommendations into action through our teaching, our research, and our
service as citizens of KU and the larger community beyond the campus. In
these ways, we can help uproot norms that enable sexual pressure and
assault on campus even as we make meaningful contributions to a
nationwide conversation whose urgency must not be allowed to fade.<br />
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Anna Neill<br />
Professor and Chair<br />
Department of English<br />
<a href="mailto:aneill@ku.edu">aneill@ku.edu</a><br />
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September Siblingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05676283079001304428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655102860681948899.post-74169439083385562832014-10-01T17:45:00.000-07:002014-10-01T17:45:16.475-07:00 KU continues to brag about sexual assault numbers<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-c5e52b0f-ce4c-66db-3c2b-0477c1b5ca9c" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At Chancellor Gray-Little’s Panel on Sexual Assault on September 19, 2014, Provost Jeffrey Vitter bragged about the numbers of plagiarism versus sexual assault expulsions at KU in an effort to diminish the demands of the September Siblings. These stats have been picked up and repeated in the local and national media:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Out of 309 incidents of academic misconduct, including cheating and plagiarism, only two students were expelled and three were suspended by the university during the 2012-13 and 2013-14 school years at KU. By comparison, KU officials noted, 12 sexual assault investigations over a similar period resulted in six suspensions or expulsions.” </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">See HuffPost article from</span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/23/university-of-kansas-activism-sexual-assault_n_5840046.html?utm_hp_ref=tw" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">September 24, 2014</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As part of our original</span><span style="color: white;"><a href="https://www.change.org/p/chancellor-gray-little-reform-the-university-of-kansas-response-to-sexual-assault" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">demands</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, the September Siblings seek a minimum punishment for sexual assault that exceeds the punishment of plagiarism — This demand stands. We are less-interested in the previous two-year's ratio of expelled plagiarizers to the ratio of expelled rapists because they are different crimes — one an academic integrity violation, another a violation of a human body and of power over the oppressed. We hold true that sexual assault crimes require a harsher punishment than violations of academic integrity as a matter of policy, and that this policy is enforced. Whereas a plagiarizer most likely copy-and-pasted a paper from the internet, sexual assault inflicts force, abuse, and trauma on a person (typically with a status of less-power in society), thus altering the trajectory of the victim’s lives, and their overall success and access at KU.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Based on information from the</span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/02/university-of-kansas-rape_n_5731668.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Huffington Post article</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>on September 2, 2014, the September Siblings, the larger KU community, and the nation saw that an admitted rapist was required to write a reflection essay as punishment, but community service was deemed “too punitive” —this is not the same punishment of a guilty plagiarizer, and the September Siblings demand more.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Also, comparing and touting the university numbers of plagiarizers to rapists, fails to recognize that a majority of sexual assault cases go unreported. The ridiculously small number of reported cases at KU were likely by some informed victims certain they could establish a “preponderance” of evidence because data show that a far greater number of sexual assaults likely occurred. Given that perhaps as many as 2,766 women out of 13,831 (1 in 5) and 788 men out of 13,137 (6%) from the 2013-2014 KU student population will be assaulted over a four-year period based on national estimates from the</span><a href="https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/221153.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Campus Sexual Assault study</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">; in other words, that’s about 889 victims per year. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">These are not numbers to brag about.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In fact, because of all of the recent attention on the issue of sexual assault on campuses,</span><a href="http://kansasfirstnews.com/2014/09/28/ku-sees-more-students-report-sexual-assaults/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">19 new cases</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> of sexual assault and harassment at KU were reported in the month of September -- that’s more cases in one month than were reported over the span of two years -- and those numbers would certainly outpace the numbers for academic misconduct. Now, IOA says they will launch a</span><a href="http://www.kansan.com/news/ioa-drafts-survey-to-collect-sexual-assault-information/article_8577768e-4915-11e4-b699-f3332a2cd914.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">new 2014 student survey</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"> </span>to gauge sexual assault occurrences, which should give us all a better understanding of how prevalent and pervasive the problem is at KU.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Finally, the September Siblings wish to call attention to the fact that there is no set standard procedure or punishment at KU for sexual assault crimes unlike many universities, although KU is certainly not alone in it’s failures. In fact, it is likely that</span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/29/campus-sexual-assault_n_5888742.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">“<span style="background-color: white;">students found guilty of sexual assault by their universities can rest assured there's a good chance they won’t be kicked out of school</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">.</span>” Thus, we request that the task force works to suggest a better and strong procedure with harsher punishments in place that, at minimum, exceed standard punishments for academic misconduct. In the meantime, the September Siblings will continue to raise awareness and work for a culture where sexual aggression is no longer idealized on our campuses and in our communities. Our safety and futures depend on it. Until then, KU remains #aGreatPlaceToBeUnsafe.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><br /></span></span>September Siblingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05676283079001304428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655102860681948899.post-27160497094750080732014-09-26T16:09:00.002-07:002014-10-01T12:18:51.409-07:00http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/23/university-of-kansas-activism-sexual-assault_n_5840046.html?m=true<br />
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The administration at the University of Kansas has not had an easy month.<br />
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the second time in less than a week, Jane McQueeny, a KU administrator
in charge of sexual assault investigations at the university, spoke to
students Tuesday afternoon
about how the school handles reports of rape on campus. Just a few days
earlier, McQueeny joined KU Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little and other
officials at a Sept. 18 panel to answer questions from students on the
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Student activism on campus and online over how the
university handles sexual violence has put continued pressure on the
administration, and helped to prompt Gray-Little to announce on Sept. 11
that the university would create a task force of students, faculty and
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"Every member of the KU community has an obligation to help shape the climate in which we work and study," Gray-Little said in an email
outlining the task force and panel. "I look forward to us all working
together as we make sure that KU is a safe place for every member of our
community. A single instance of sexual assault is one too many."<br />
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Leaders
of colleges facing criticism over sexual assault do not frequently
field questions from students on the topic in public. But attendance at
the Sept. 18 panel was less than half of the turnout for a student-organized forum the week before, on Sept. 9, according to students who attended both events.<br />
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The administration's actions and student activism follow a Huffington Post report
earlier this month that the university considered community service too
"punitive" as a punishment for "nonconsensual sex." Students reacted by
creating a video -- which included one anonymous survivor's account of
her sexual assault -- to warn people the campus was not safe.<br />
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KU's handling of the case has led to a federal investigation by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.<br />
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More sexual assault survivors have come forward since the launch of the investigation. One unnamed student told the University Daily Kansan,
a student newspaper, that when the university determined a male student
who forced himself on her while she was drunk was responsible for
"non-consensual contact," Director of Student Conduct & Community
Standards Nick Kehrwald determined no punishment would be levied since
the perpetrator hadn't actually violated the sexual harassment policy.<br />
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student body president Emma Halling told The Huffington Post that she
has referred other survivors directly to federal investigators.<br />
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biggest concern right now is while, yes, our policies on face look like
they're compliant, in the actual process students are so alienated and
disserved that they end up feeling worse about the process than when
they went in," Halling said.<br />
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Students have staged demonstrations
on campus, and condemned the university for its penalties for sexual
assault, saying punishments such as having to write a "reflection paper"
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Siblings, said staffers at the university's student affairs office have
asked students why they continue to organize protests since the
chancellor's email announced the review of university policies.<br />
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university] is clearly not listening now, and they have clearly not
been listening in the past," Entrikin said. "How are students expected
to have faith in this new student-faculty task force when committees
like this have traditionally been unproductive?"<br />
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Overall, Entrikin
said, university officials seem more concerned with complying with
Title IX, the gender equity law that requires colleges to address sexual
violence and harassment, than with stopping sexual assault altogether.
Ze noted KU's administration has still not responded to a list of
specific demands from the September Siblings.<br />
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"I do not know what
it will take for the administration to accept their students’ demands,"
Entrikin said. "We want to be proud of our school, but I cannot be proud
of a university that pretends to protect victims of sexual violence,
when they are really only protecting themselves."<br />
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One of the
group's demands calls for the university to ensure the punishment for
sexual assault is more severe than sanctions for plagiarism.<br />
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However,
according to information supplied by the university to HuffPost, out of
309 incidents of academic misconduct, including cheating and
plagiarism, only two students were expelled and three were suspended by
the university during the 2012-13 and 2013-14 school years at KU. By
comparison, KU officials noted, 12 sexual assault investigations over a
similar period resulted in six suspensions or expulsions.<br />
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More than 1,200 people have signed a petition
calling for, among other changes, a process to allow students to appeal
the judgments in sexual assault and harassment complaints since 2012.<br />
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unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday that condemns the University
for its handling of reported sexual assaults. It was written and
presented by Emma Halling, interim student body president.<br />
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<span class="paragraph-1">“If you are a victim of rape at this University, you are treated like a liability and not a human being,” Halling said.<br />
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In the middle of her speech about the resolution,
Halling, a senior from Elkhart, Ind., held back tears as she told
senators and present administrators of her own sexual assault story.<br />
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She said she was sexually assaulted in high school, but coping as a survivor has been difficult for her on campus.<br />
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“For people who don’t think sexual assault and
rape are traumatizing, let me tell you what it looks like,” Halling
said. “It looks like walking down the boulevard and thinking you see
someone who looks like your assailant, and being immediately transported
back to that situation.”<br />
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Halling has been vocal in her condemnation of the
University since The Huffington Post article detailing how the
University handled one sexual assault case was published. On Wednesday
she was not only one of the loudest critics of the University, but spoke
as a survivor.<br />
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She said she wants people to realize the breadth
and depth of the subject. Halling said she knows it can really impede a
student’s ability to succeed at the University, and it’s something she
can speak to personally.<br />
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“It is traumatic,” Halling said. “It inhibits your ability to pursue an education, and we are not doing a damn thing about it.”<br />
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It was clear that those who spoke about the
sexual assault situation were ready for a change. Halling and Angela
Murphy, Student Senate graduate affairs director, have been serving on
the Title IX Roundtable since its creation last fall.<br />
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Murphy, who is the treasurer and development
director for the roundtable, said she hasn’t felt like student policy
change suggestions have been taken seriously.<br />
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Halling, Murphy and Interim Student Body Vice
President Tyler Childress sat down Friday afternoon with the Chancellor
and the provost.<br />
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Halling said she was inspired by the
conversations at the meeting. She said the Chancellor was interested in
every detail of the process and that the three students were able to
provide a lot of input.<br />
Murphy said she is optimistic and believes that
this is the right climate for the University to set a standard for
sexual assault policies.<br />
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“This is a great time for KU to set a national
standard for how sexual assault is addressed at institutions of higher
education,” Murphy said. “I think we have the momentum, we have the
right people in place, especially in the student body and I do think we
have an administration who is open to hearing these things.”<br />
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Morgan Said, a senior from Kansas City, Mo., and
student body president elect, said she plans to continue working with
Halling and administration on Title IX initiatives.<br />
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“Student Senate acted quickly and very directly,
something that I don’t think we can say about the University
administration at this point in time,” Said said.<br />
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Said said she and Natalie Parker, a senior from
Overland Park and vice chair of Rights Committee, sat down with Jane
Tuttle, assistant vice provost of Student Affairs, on Tuesday to discuss
concerns. The pair also urged Tuttle to have someone from Student
Affairs attend the open forum on sexual assault at the ECM that night.
No one from the office attended, Halling said.<br />
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Tuttle, who was in attendance at Wednesday’s full Senate meeting, declined to comment when approached by The Kansan.<br />
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September Siblingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05676283079001304428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655102860681948899.post-72472276924293012712014-09-17T21:19:00.001-07:002014-09-17T21:29:38.911-07:00University Daily Kansan: Strong Hall protest aims to keep sexual assault policies in the spotlight<a href="http://www.kansan.com/news/strong-hall-protest-aims-to-keep-sexual-assault-policies-in/article_6daa6472-3e06-11e4-af14-d7af95d98aef.html">http://www.kansan.com/news/strong-hall-protest-aims-to-keep-sexual-assault-policies-in/article_6daa6472-3e06-11e4-af14-d7af95d98aef.html</a><br />
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<span class="paragraph-0">Connor Bowman was
one of two men sitting among a growing crowd of women on the lawn of
Strong Hall on Tuesday afternoon. He held a sign that read, "Parking
Violation = $$, RAPE = ...?" Women were there to protest sexual assault
policies, and Bowman was right there alongside them to show his support.</span>
<span class="paragraph-1">"I think the gender
gap speaks to a larger issue here," Bowman said. "Maybe it's a sign
that there should be an effort to change that about our culture."</span>
Bowman has noticed many sexual assault awareness
training sessions focus on steps women can take in order to avoid
putting themselves in those situations. However, he noted, people don't
often take into consideration the man’s actions and how we should
address them.<br />
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"Everyone always says that women shouldn’t let
themselves get drunk enough to put themselves in that situation, which
is true,” Bowman said. “But at the same time, they should be able to
feel safe no matter what.”<br />
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Bowman and several other students voiced their
opinions at the Sit Down to Stand Up protest Tuesday afternoon. Dozens
of supporters sat on the lawn of Strong Hall holding signs that read,
“Our bodies are not learning experiences for rapists” and “Only yes
means yes,” among several others.<br />
Zoe Fincher, a sophomore from Lawrence, organized
the protest. After she made the event on Facebook, Hobbes Entrikin, a
member of September Siblings, messaged her and asked if September
Siblings could join her cause.<br />
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Fincher wasn’t shocked by the article published
in the Huffington Post or by the scrutiny the University has been under
in the past two weeks. She said she hopes this protest will combine with
other similar protests across the country to create a national
discussion. She said her main goal in organizing the protest was to
spread the word and gain media attention.<br />
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“KU doesn’t want the attention, but it’s what we need if we are going to fix this,” Fincher said.<br />
Fincher specifically planned the protest a couple
weeks after the article came out so people wouldn’t forget it after a
couple days and move on.<br />
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“If we stop talking about it, then it will just get pushed back under the rug and nothing will get fixed,” Fincher said.<br />
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Both students and alumni were present at the
protest. Among the crowd were CJ Brune and Christine Smith, two women
who were part of February Sisters, a women’s rights group on campus in
the 70s. Brune and Smith were both part of a similar protest in February
1972 when they were fighting for affirmative action and a daycare at
the University.<br />
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“It’s been a problem for years,” Brune said. “And
the worst part was that they made the woman feel like the perpetrator,
like it was her fault.”<br />
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Neither of them are surprised by the problems.<br />
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“When we were in college, they would essentially
just tell girls just to ‘relax and enjoy it,’ and apparently that’s
still their attitude,” Smith said.<br />
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The September Siblings gave a list of demands to
the Institutional Opportunity and Access and the University they would
like to see the administration adhere to. They requested the demands be
met by spring 2015, but have yet to hear from administration.<br />
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Last week Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little
formed a sexual assault task force that will review current policies and
practices, and provide recommendations on how they can be improved.
Since this announcement, no recognizable changes have been made.<br />
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Emma Halling, student body president, showed her
support at the protest. The last contact with IOA or the University she
had was almost two weeks ago. She said she is concerned the task force
was created just to pacify the people so scrutiny will go away and no
changes will be made.<br />
“They’re aware that the spotlight is on them,”
Halling said. “The fact that this is occurring after the task force was
created shows that more needs to be done.”<br />
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Until those demands are met, students like
Fincher and members of the September Siblings will continue to rally
support and raise awareness on campus. By using hashtags like
#AGreatPlaceToBeUnsafe and #dontexploreku, they hope to convince the
University to change its policies.<br />
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“KU has a great opportunity to become a national
leader from all of this,” Bowman said. “The students recognize that
there’s a problem, and they should be mad. But the overall message is a
positive one.”<br />
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<span style="color: white;">Tuesday night University of Kansas students, faculty and staff, along with members of the Lawrence community gathered at the Ecumenical Campus Ministries on campus. More than 100 people came together to express their feelings and concerns about the "mishandling of sexual assault" at the university.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">"We need to treat this as a serious thing with absolute consequences for offenders or victims will continue to not report, victims who do go through the process will continue to feel more abused by reporting, and rapist will continue to be active on our campus," said Emma Halling, acting Student Body President at KU.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Halling's words were echoed by many. Survivors of sexual assault shared their stories as well. A moment of silence was also held for all victims and survivors of sexual assault who one speaker said "are often silenced".</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">The gathering was coordinated by of University of Kansas students who are calling themselves the "September Siblings." Earlier Tuesday, the group released an anti-recruitment video on YouTube. Along with a petition and list of changes they want to see made in KU policy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span class="paragraph-0" style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">At an open forum Tuesday night held by the September Siblings, a new campus organization working to change the University sexual assault policies, discussion ranged from survivors’ stories to the lack of education and training to the frustration with victim-blaming. The recurring topic was a call for the University to make a change in its policies.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span class="paragraph-1" style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">“One of the things I heard over and over tonight, which I thought was really remarkable and exciting was the call for KU to be a leader on this issue, to be a national leader, and I think that’s very possible,” said Alesha Doan, chair of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">Around 275 people, including students, faculty, advocates and community members, attended the meeting at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">The discussion began with the September Siblings sharing its demands and showing an anti-recruitment video it will promote until the University sexual assault policies change.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">“We’ve organized this event because voices aren’t being heard by KU administration, because students are experiencing sexual violence and they have no control over what justice they receive,” said Hobbes Entrikin, a junior and a September Sibling member who helped organize the forum. “KU administration is not allowing students to be involved in a way that will change policies.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">One survivor shared her story of being raped while trying to ensure a friend’s safety. Another survivor said she had been raped by a close friend and still wasn’t completely comfortable calling it rape because of their relationship.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">The goal of the forum was to create a space for people to share these stories, along with messages of support and calls to change policies to support victims, Entrikin said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">“This conversation has helped put a face on the idea of rape and surviving rape, which is something people don’t seem to understand and connect with, so providing a connection is making a very big difference in this,” Entrikin said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">Emma Halling, a senior from Elkhart, Ind., and acting student body president, said changes need to happen because they are negatively affecting the education and environment at the University.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">“If women are being raped at this 20 percent rate and the University is not doing everything in its power to a) prevent it and b) remedy the situations after it happened they are inhibiting these women’s, these survivors’ ability to pursue their education here,” Halling said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">Angela Murphy, a graduate teaching assistant and development coordinator for the Title IX Roundtable said in a Sept. 8 interview that student-led discussions are what motivate change.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">“When you have students, young people, age ranges over a decade, gathering together over the same issue then you are doing something right,” Murphy said. “I fully believe that that’s the one thing we are doing right is students mobilizing to affect positive change at the University.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">Halling said students can continue putting pressure on the University to change by discussing it in class and writing to the chancellor.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">Doan also said students can continue to push for change through social media and spreading the word.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">“Creating a consent culture is not as difficult as we pretend it is as a society,” Doan said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">Members of the organization called for 10 demands of the University:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">-An investigation of the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access and Student Affairs;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">-having a victim advocate involved in the judicial process;</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">-an immediate budget increase to $35,000 for the Emily Taylor Center;</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">-mandatory sexual assault training for students;</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">-increasing the minimum punishment for sexual assault;</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">-revision of sexual assault policies;</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">-the revisions to be done by a committee of at least 51 percent students;</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">-reinvestigating sexual assault cases of those still at the University;</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">-allowing for filers to appeal cases;</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">-eliminating the term non-consensual sex.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">“We will be heard one way or another,” Entrikin said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">A group of Kansas University students </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;">is circulating a petition calling on Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little to order an investigation into the KU office that investigates allegations of sexual assault and has released a video with anonymous people saying they were raped on campus.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">The group is also warning potential students, telling them not to pick KU as their school.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">"KU is not a safe place for students and no high school seniors should enroll here until it is," said the group, which includes Emma Halling, acting student body president, and other student leaders.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">The actions were sparked by recent reports of a KU student who said she was raped in 2013 and her alleged assailant was given a lenient punishment. KU has declined to comment on the case, citing confidentiality required by federal law. Douglas County District Attorney Charles Branson has said his office is reviewing the case.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">The petition wants Gray-Little's administration to investigate KU's offices of Institutional Opportunity & Access and Student Affairs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">It also wants mandatory sexual assault training for all KU students and elimination of the term "non-consensual sex" in investigations. "It is rape," the petition states.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">The petition also calls for the re-investigation of cases of professors, administrators and students who are still at KU and who were accused of sexual assault and harassment.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="paragraph-0" style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">The name of the complainant in this story has been changed at her request. The name of the respondent of the accusation is also being protected.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="paragraph-1" style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Now four months into University of Kansas administrators’ response to her alleged sexual assault, Ivory is left with one sentiment: “Nobody cares.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Ivory, a sophomore, <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/239166806/May-12-email" style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">filed</a> one of the 17 sexual assault complaints that the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access (IOA) has investigated so far in 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">She went in thinking it would get better if she reported to University administration. She thought IOA would communicate with her the way she had requested.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">She was wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">According to emails and confidential letters to and from Ivory obtained by The University Daily Kansan, as well as interviews with Ivory, she accused the respondent, a male University student, on May 5 of non-consensual oral sex and attempting to penetrate her in November 2013. <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/239166805/June-30-email" style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">On June 30</a>, IOA had finished its investigation, issued a conclusion, and recommended sanctions: that the respondent be put on probation, meet with IOA and pay restitution for out-of-pocket therapy expenses. Student Conduct and Community Standards subsequently decided that there had been no violation, and told Ivory so in a meeting on Aug. 18.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">She thought her case was closed. She went home and cried.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Now, her case is being reopened against her will for a Formal Hearing Panel conducted by Student Affairs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">It started at a bar in November 2013, the fall of her freshman year.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">She saw the respondent for the first and last time that night. She said she got a text from him the next day with his first name. She said she still doesn’t know anything other than his name, which fraternity he’s in, and the major listed on his Facebook profile.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">“I think he was like 6-4, 6-5, over 200 pounds,” she said. “A really large person to try to fight off.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">She said when his fraternity’s designated driver picked them up as the bar was about to close, she thought they were going to take her to her home, not to spend the night at his fraternity.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">“That wasn’t my plan,” she said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Her memory of the night is choppy. She said he took her clothes off at his fraternity. She said she felt uncomfortable, said no, tried to get him to stop and told him repeatedly that she wanted to go home.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">“There was no point in the evening where I wanted to engage with this person sexually,” she said. “None. And at every single point I made it clear that I was uncomfortable and that I did not want this to happen.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">The respondent did not return The Kansan’s voicemails.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">The Kansan was not able to obtain the full IOA investigative report, which would include witness testimony of that night. Ivory signed a notarized Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act student records information release to allow the University to release records and information related to her sexual assault complaint to The Kansan reporter on Sept. 8. According to the University’s Director of News and Media Relations Erinn Barcomb-Peterson, no records will be released until after her case review is completed, after the scheduled formal hearing, to avoid influencing those involved in the case, including witnesses and panel members. She said Ivory and the respondent have rights to review records that will be presented at the hearing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">After that night, Ivory said she didn’t initially know that she could report what had happened and didn’t know where or how to report it in the University. She had also heard news stories of nothing happening to alleged rapists when other people reported alleged sexual assaults and she did not want to go through that experience. The next day, and for months afterward, she tried to ignore that anything had happened.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">“I didn’t know what else to do,” she said. “And I didn’t think that anyone would help me.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">In April, she finally told someone.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Her friend Amanda Schulze, then a senior from Wichita, knew how to report to IOA and what the University could do because she served on the Title IX Sexual Assault Training subcommittee. She told Ivory that there was a process that could be effective.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">If she didn’t say anything, nobody would ever know what she said the respondent had done. That’s what convinced her to report to the University.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">“I wanted to feel like campus could be safe for other people and I felt like this person was dangerous,” Ivory said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">After class on May 5, Ivory reported the alleged assault. With Schulze at her side, she sat down in IOA Investigator Jennifer Brooks’s office in Carruth-O’Leary Hall.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">According to IOA procedure as well as Ivory and Schulze’s accounts, Brooks took notes as she had Ivory walk through the events of that night. IOA investigators follow a checklist, making sure investigators explain how IOA handles cases and giving complainants a list of resources.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">On that checklist is “correspondence regarding investigation.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">IOA normally sends all official documents by both standard mail to the complainant’s listed address and by email to the complainant’s @ku.edu email address. Ivory lived in the dorms as a freshman. Over the summer, her mail would be forwarded to her family’s house.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Ivory hadn’t—and still hasn’t—told her family about her alleged sexual assault.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">“I was very, very private about the whole thing,” she said. “And I was hurting a lot.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">According to procedure and accounts, Brooks asked if Ivory wanted both letters and emails. Ivory said to not send letters to her family house. She said to only email her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">“It was reiterated multiple times that she did not want anything sent to her home,” Schulze said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Ivory said she saw Brooks write down a note to only email and not mail and assured her that she would not be sent any mail to her parents’ home. Schulze also said Brooks said everything would be emailed and not mailed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">The mail came to her family’s house anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Confidential PDFs obtained by The Kansan are all labeled as sent via standard mail and email: a summary of the May 5 meeting saying IOA would investigate, a copy of the notification of investigation addressed to the respondent, a directive that he not contact Ivory, and IOA’s conclusion and sanction recommendations.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Ivory said she received the letters in two bundles, the first in the middle of June and the second at the end of June. She said they looked like any other official KU letters, which startled her. She opened them before her family saw them.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">“My dad, very easily, with no bad intention, would have seen that and thought it was a bill or something,” she said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Ivory felt exposed. But she didn’t contact IOA to make sure no more letters came. She said she was busy, she didn’t know who to contact, and she didn’t think IOA would fix it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Barcomb-Peterson said Jane McQueeny, IOA executive director, would not be able to comment on Ivory’s case until after the scheduled hearing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Ivory said no one from IOA was checking up with her and she didn’t understand what she could ask.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">On June 30, IOA sent its conclusion. IOA found that it is “more likely than not that [the respondent] assaulted [Ivory] by kissing and touching [her] when [she was] incapacitated and unable to provide knowing and voluntary consent to engage in any sexual activity with him.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">“If somebody is incapacitated, then they’re not able to consent to any sexual activity,” Brooks said speaking in general during a Sept. 5 interview with The Kansan.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">IOA’s conclusion did not address Ivory’s accounts that these sexual actions happened when she said no.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">IOA recommended the respondent be put on probation—without specifying what probation would entail—for six months, that he meet with IOA staff to discuss alcohol and consent and that he pay restitution to Ivory for any out-of-pocket therapy expense related to the case. The June 30 letter said the Director of Student Conduct and Community Standards, Nick Kehrwald, would be in touch to discuss IOA’s recommendations.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">On July 9, <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/239166807/July-9-email" style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Kehrwald emailed</a> Ivory saying he had received IOA’s report and wanted to discuss the findings and recommendations with her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Ivory responded to Kehrwald’s email on July 15 with complaints about the IOA investigation: that “kissing and touching” while she was drunk is not as serious a charge as her alleged non-consensual oral sex, that the recommended sanctions were not serious, and that IOA had handled the case inattentively by sending letters to her parents’ house after she requested to only be sent emails.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">“I will always be proud to be a Jayhawk, but I am deeply disappointed in your department’s clear lack of concern for the safety of other women on this campus by allowing [the respondent] to disappear into university life without poignant consequences for his actions,” she wrote.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Kehrwald <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/239166804/July-18-email" style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">responded</a> to her email on July 18 by saying Student Conduct and Community Standards is an office in Student Affairs and had not been involved in IOA’s investigation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">“That is the sole responsibility of IOA,” he wrote.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Ivory never brought those complaints directly to IOA.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">She said she had wanted the respondent at least suspended for a semester. She was disappointed. But, moving forward, she assumed the respondent would have to pay for the out-of-pocket expenses for therapy. She set up an appointment with a recommended therapist in Lawrence who wasn’t on her insurance plan.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Ivory emailed Kehrwald with the therapist’s name, contact number and how much each session would cost. At the time, she thought that it was Kehrwald’s job to enforce the sanctions that IOA recommended.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">According to standard procedure, when an alleged violation of student conduct is reported, a conduct officer from Student Conduct and Community Standards reviews IOA’s investigation and decides if a violation occurred and what sanctions should be enforced.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">On the morning of Aug. 18, Ivory met with Kehrwald in his office.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Kehrwald concluded that the facts as documented did not support a violation of the University’s sexual harassment policy, as later summarized in a Student Affairs notice dated Sept. 5. That notice addressed to Ivory says, “While you were incapacitated at the time of the incident there were not enough behavioral indicators to where the accused student knew or reasonably should have known of your incapacitation.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">According to that document, IOA’s report says that the respondent did not see Ivory drinking, that she was not slurring her speech, had no difficulty walking outside of the bar, that they made small talk in the car, and that she showed no difficulties walking into the fraternity. It said that the first signs that Ivory was drunk are made by another witness that she was swaying, appeared glossed over, and getting drunker as time passed “after the incident in question.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">She said Kehrwald told her no sanctions would be imposed. Even though IOA’s investigation had found the respondent had more likely than not engaged in non-consensual contact with her, she said she was told he would not be punished.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Barcomb-Peterson said Kehrwald, Student Conduct and Community Standards director, would not be able to comment on Ivory’s case until after the hearing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Ivory said Kehrwald asked if she wanted to see her full IOA investigative report then. According to Brooks, these reports contain any evidence collected, including witness interviews, IOA’s analysis and the recommended sanctions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Ivory said no, she wasn’t ready to read the report in Kehrwald’s office with him at that Aug. 18 meeting. She said Kehrwald asked if she wanted him to email it to her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Ivory said Kehrwald gave her one other option at the Aug. 18 meeting. If she wanted, she could appeal his decision to a three-person panel. She said she has never requested or agreed to such a hearing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">She was emotionally exhausted. She had hoped the respondent would be punished by the University. IOA had concluded that he committed a violation, and now she was being told by Student Conduct and Community Standards that he had not. She didn’t want to appeal. She wanted to go home.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">“The last thing I wanted to do was to continue with the University,” she said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">After reading about the light sanctions proposed by an appeals panel in another student’s rape case reported in the Huffington Post on Sept. 2, she said she’s glad she didn’t appeal.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">“Apparently the people on the panel think that community service is too punitive, so what do you think they would have told me?” she said. “That guy admitted that he raped that girl. What do you think they would have told me?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">She said she thanked Kehrwald for his time, left his office without asking further questions, lay in bed and cried. She said no one followed up with her and Kehrwald never sent her the formal report, despite his offer to do so.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">“That meeting killed an investigation of sexual assault and killed a sanction for sexual assault that was supposed to happen,” she said. “And they didn’t even bother to put it in writing and send it to me or ask me if I needed anything or give me a list of steps that I could take.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">She found a therapist in her insurance plan instead. She thought that was the end of the University’s action.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">At 9:32 a.m. on Sept. 5, Ivory sent an email to Jennifer Brooks asking for a copy of the IOA investigative report that Kehrwald did not send her. While she said she wasn’t emotionally ready to read it herself, she agreed to give it to The Kansan.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">At 9:53 a.m. on Sept. 5, she got an email from someone new.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Joshua Jones, the Student Conduct and Community Standards coordinator who works under Kehrwald, wrote to Ivory that a Formal Hearing Panel of her case had been scheduled for Friday, Sept. 19. A panel of three—a School of Education administrator, an officer manager in the School of Engineering and a student—is scheduled to decide if the Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities was violated and if sanctions, including possible suspension or expulsion, are warranted.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Jones’s email says the hearing was scheduled under section VI.C.3 of the Student Non-Academic Conduct Procedures. Section VI.C.3 says an accused student will meet before a Formal Hearing Panel when expulsion or suspension is a likely sanction, and that accused student disputes facts. Ivory said Kehrwald’s decision was that the respondent faced no sanctions. IOA’s recommended sanctions never included expulsion or suspension.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Tammara Durham, vice provost for Student Affairs, wrote in an email statement, “When a case involves sexual assault, if a complaining party requests that the respondent student be suspended or expelled, Student Affairs will take the matter to a Formal Hearing Panel.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Barcomb-Peterson said Joshua Jones, Student Conduct and Community Standards coordinator, would not be able to comment on Ivory’s case until after the scheduled hearing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Ivory said she doesn’t want this hearing to happen. She said she was not asked if she wanted the hearing to happen. She and the respondent have the right to attend and participate.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">“I can’t,” she said. “I can’t do it. I can’t be in the room with him again and have to talk about this all over again in front of complete strangers.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">She has a class when the hearing is scheduled. Jones’s email acknowledges this but says the chosen time is the earliest possible date given the availability of the hearing panel. Durham wrote in a statement that Student Affairs works with students to secure an excused absence and “ensure the student is able to obtain information from the missed class session so that the student is not prejudiced by the scheduling of the hearing.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">The formal hearing notice uses phrasing such as “your consumption of alcohol (tequila),” “while at The Jayhawk Café (‘The Hawk’),” and “displayed unusual behavior” in recounting the grounds for IOA’s conclusion that Ivory was incapacitated.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Jones’s email says that he will be bringing the case to the hearing panel on her behalf so Ivory is not required to attend the hearing. She hasn’t decided if she will.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Ivory decided to speak out to start a conversation and get University policy and the structure of Student Conduct and Community Standards changed. She said the Huffington Post report and the scrutiny that the University’s sexual assault policies have come under since made her realize she isn’t alone in being unhappy with how her sexual assault complaint was handled.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">“They didn’t care until now,” she said. “How little they care is just becoming so apparent.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">— Edited by Emma LeGault and Amelia Arvesen</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">November 20: Ivory met the respondent at a bar and was allegedly sexually assaulted that night.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">May 5: Ivory reported to IOA and accused respondent of non-consensual oral sex and attempting to penetrate her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Mid-June: Ivory received official documents to her family’s home twice after she requested they be emailed to her @ku.edu address only.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">June 30: IOA sent its conclusion and found it was more likely than not that the respondent assaulted her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">July 9: Kehrwald emailed Ivory saying he had received IOA’s report and wanted to discuss the findings and recommendations with her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">July 15: Ivory responded to Kehrwald’s email with complaints about the investigation. She disagreed with the recommended sanctions: probation for six months, that he meet with IOA staff, and that he pay restitution for therapy related to the case.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">July 18: Kehrwald responded to her email. He said Student Conduct and Community Standards is an office in Student Affairs and had not been involved in IOA’s investigation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Aug. 18: Ivory met Kehrwald in his office. She said he said the facts did not support a violation of the University’s Sexual Harassment policy. Ivory said he asked if she wanted to see the full investigative report. She declined. He said he could email it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Sept. 2: The Huffington Post article was published.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Sept. 5: Ivory emailed Jennifer Brooks to request a copy of the IOA report that Kehrwald had not sent. Twenty minutes passed and Ivory received an email from Joshua Jones, the Student Conduct and Community Standards coordinator. He told her a Formal Hearing Panel of her case had been scheduled for Friday, Sept. 19.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Nick Kehrwald: Director of Student Conduct and Community Standards, under Student Affairs. He contacted Ivory on July 9 to discuss IOA’s recommendations included in the conclusion. He was in contact with her through email until they met in person on Aug. 18.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">In that meeting, Kehrwald concluded that the facts as documented did not support a violation of the University’s Sexual Harassment policy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Erinn Barcomb-Peterson: University’s Director of News and Media Relations since July. She told The Kansan no records will be released until after Ivory’s case is completed, including the Formal Hearing Panel scheduled for Sept. 19.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Jane McQueeny: Executive Director of IOA, will not be able to comment on Ivory’s case until after the scheduled hearing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Jennifer Brooks: IOA Investigator assigned to Ivory’s case. According to Ivory, Brooks noted that Ivory did not want official documents to be mailed to her family’s home, but they arrived anyway in mid-June.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Joshua Jones: The Student Conduct and Community Standards coordinator who works under Kehrwald. He contacted Ivory on Sept. 5 for the first time alerting her that a hearing had been scheduled.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Amanda Schulze: Ivory’s friend from Wichita who knew how to report to IOA because she served on the Title IX sexual assault training subcommittee. She accompanied Ivory to the IOA office to report the assault.</span></div>
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September Siblingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05676283079001304428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655102860681948899.post-56248650423622828192014-09-05T14:03:00.001-07:002014-09-05T14:03:07.031-07:00College Media Matters: Kansan Calls Out KU on Special Front Page, Homepage for Mishandling Student Rape Case<div class="title_page">
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Kansan Calls Out KU on Special Front Page, Homepage for Mishandling Student Rape Case</h1>
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Posted by <a href="http://www.collegemediamatters.com/author/dreimoldgmail-com/" rel="author" title="Posts by Dan Reimold">Dan Reimold</a> on Friday, September 5, 2014 · <a href="http://www.collegemediamatters.com/2014/09/05/kansan-calls-out-ku-on-special-front-page-homepage-for-mishandling-student-rape-case/#respond">Leave a Comment</a><br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.kansan.com/" target="_blank">The University Daily Kansan</a> has responded to an alleged sexual assault case bungling</strong> by University of Kansas officials with an editorial bang-pow-boom — <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/238612379/09-04-14" target="_blank">in print</a> and <a href="http://www.kansan.com/" target="_blank">online</a>.</div>
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<a href="http://www.kansan.com/editorial-sexual-assault-not-a-learning-experience/article_0ed5c318-33f9-11e4-aa7e-001a4bcf887a.html" target="_blank">According to the top-notch KU student newspaper</a>,
this past October “a male student confessed to raping a female student
in her dorm room after she got drunk at a fraternity party. He was found
‘guilty of non-consensual sexual intercourse’ — which is rape — by the
Office of Institutional Opportunity & Access, the campus entity that
primarily deals with sexual assault reporting through the university.
… [T]he university proceeded by placing the student on probation,
banning him from student housing and requiring him to write a four-page
reflection essay as well as seek counseling.”</div>
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Those punishments, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/02/university-of-kansas-rape_n_5731668.html" target="_blank">first brought to light by The Huffington Post</a>,
are being criticized as far too light by some members of the KU
community. The school’s acting student body president: “When the
University of Kansas doesn’t expel, doesn’t suspend and doesn’t even
submit to community service someone who is an admitted rapist, we are
absolutely not fulfilling our obligation to eliminate a hostile
environment for our students.”<span id="more-29515"></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.kansan.com/"><img alt="1" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-29519" height="340" src="http://www.collegemediamatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-05-at-12.38.51-AM.png" width="620" /></a></div>
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Yesterday, in return, the Kansan launched an editorial assault for the ages, publishing <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/238612379/09-04-14" target="_blank">a special front-page quartet of related stories</a>
in its print edition — all under a single prominent header. The
above-the-fold hed features a brave-bold quote from the student body
prez: <strong>“The system we have in place is <span style="color: red;">failing</span> our students.”</strong></div>
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The paper also did some digital
tinkering to hype the same four stories across the top of its homepage.
The teasers for each piece are placed provocatively within boxes
spelling out <strong><a href="http://www.kansan.com/acting-student-body-president-emma-halling-criticizes-sexual-assault-procedure/article_9f09489e-33f7-11e4-9e5e-001a4bcf887a.html" target="_blank">R</a>-<a href="http://www.kansan.com/students-respond-with-agreatplacetobeunsafe/article_10d2d026-33f8-11e4-9531-001a4bcf887a.html" target="_blank">A</a>-<a href="http://www.kansan.com/ku-administration-lacks-response-to-huffington-post-case/article_a61a6bbe-33f6-11e4-bd7c-001a4bcf887a.html" target="_blank">P</a>-<a href="http://www.kansan.com/editorial-sexual-assault-not-a-learning-experience/article_0ed5c318-33f9-11e4-aa7e-001a4bcf887a.html" target="_blank">E</a></strong>, one letter at a time.</div>
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<a href="http://instagram.com/p/siAgphiS40/" target="_blank"><img alt="1" class="style="margin: 10px;" alignleft wp-image-29520 size-medium" height="300" src="http://www.collegemediamatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-05-at-3.21.17-AM-300x300.png" width="300" /></a>The piece promoted under the E is <a href="http://www.kansan.com/editorial-sexual-assault-not-a-learning-experience/article_0ed5c318-33f9-11e4-aa7e-001a4bcf887a.html" target="_blank">an editorial mincing no words</a>
about the staff’s disappointment in the university’s handling of the
case. It is coupled with a promise that the paper will report with gusto
on it from all angles one day and one story at a time.</div>
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A portion of the editorial: <span style="color: black;">“The
university administration should be ashamed at the accusations
regarding the mishandling of a reported on-campus rape last year. The
University Daily Kansan will seek the truth about why it happened and
hold administrative bodies accountable for their actions. … </span>We
will do our absolute best to be on top of everything related to the
issue and be the source students, faculty, staff and alumni trust and
come to when looking for the most recent information. <strong>You can expect us to dig deeper than we ever have before to shed light on rape culture at KU</strong>.”</div>
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<a href="http://instagram.com/p/siAgphiS40/" target="_blank">In an Instagram post</a> hyping the special front page, UDK editor-in-chief <a href="https://twitter.com/em_legault" target="_blank">Emma LeGault</a>
writes, “I am so honored to lead an incredibly passionate team of
journalists who are wholly committed to covering this issue and giving a
voice to students. We will not stop pursuing this. We will tell the
truth.”</div>
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Kudos to LeGault, <span style="color: black;"><span data-reactid=".0.0.1.2.$userprofile765359534:0.2.0">Cole Anneberg, </span>Maddie Schultz, <span data-reactid=".0.0.1.2.$userprofile1243112753:0.2.0">Amelia Arvesen, Miranda Davis, Allison Kite, Rochelle Valverde, </span>Cecilia Cho, Hannah Barling, Christina Carreira and the entire UDK editorial, design and online crews.</span></div>
September Siblingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05676283079001304428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655102860681948899.post-40765151576233159292014-09-04T20:58:00.003-07:002014-09-04T21:01:08.198-07:00Huffington Post: KU Students Outraged Over Soft Punishment In Rape Case<div class="author original" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: Arial, FreeSans, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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KU Students Outraged Over Soft Punishment In Rape Case <span class="posted" style="border-right-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-right-style: solid; border-width: 0px 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-family: Arial, FreeSans, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Posted: <time datetime="2014-09-04T20:45:59-04:00" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">09/04/2014 8:45 pm EDT </time></span><span class="updated" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-family: Arial, FreeSans, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Updated: <time datetime="2014-09-04T20:59:05-04:00" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2 hours ago</time></span></h1>
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University of Kansas Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little promised Thursday to review how the school handles sexual assault cases, following <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/02/university-of-kansas-rape_n_5731668.html" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0190cc; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">a report by The Huffington Post</a> that a student found guilty of "nonconsensual sex" by KU was only slapped with probation and a four-page paper to write as sanctions. Since that story came out Tuesday, students have been loudly criticizing their school's failure to take stronger action.</div>
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"If you feel unsafe, then I and the rest of the university leadership have a responsibility to do what we can to make changes so you do feel safe," <a href="http://www.chancellor.ku.edu/messages/2014/sep04" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0190cc; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">Gray-Little said</a>in a statement.</div>
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The Lawrence, Kansas, university is under federal investigation in response to a complaint filed by a student, now a sophomore, who had reported she was raped as a freshman in October 2013. The accused student told KU campus police that he continued sexual intercourse with her for 15 minutes after she said "no" and "stop," until he reached orgasm. Following a university investigation, he was punished with probation, a ban on student housing and a so-called reflection paper. The school considered adding community service, but decided against it because that would be "strictly punitive."</div>
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After the HuffPost report, students unleashed a hail of angry tweets under the hashtag<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/aGreatPlaceToBeUnsafe?src=hash" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0190cc; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">#aGreatPlaceToBeUnsafe</a> -- a play on the KU slogan, "A great place to be ..."<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(Examples of those tweets are embedded below.)</strong></div>
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On Wednesday, during the first student senate meeting of the year, a committee unanimously passed a resolution condemning the university's handling of sexual violence. Interim student body president Emma Halling said she expects it to sail through the full senate in the coming days.</div>
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"As a campus, when we see students not getting substantial consequences for raping other students, people who may be deterred by sanctions see and learn they can do that and pretty much get away scot-free," she told The Huffington Post Thursday. "And victims learn it's not worth it to go through the process."</div>
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Since the HuffPost story, Halling said, a number of sexual assault survivors have reached out to her, knowing of <a href="http://www.kansan.com/news/congresswoman-jenkins-and-title-ix-roundtable-address-national-sexual-assault/article_9c0299ec-2cd2-11e4-9cbe-0019bb2963f4.html" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0190cc; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">her work on sexual assault issues</a> last year, and said they, too, were failed by the university's adjudication of their cases. She directed them to officials from the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, which is running the federal investigation.</div>
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The student newspaper, The University Daily Kansan, reported Thursday that <a href="http://www.kansan.com/ku-administration-lacks-response-to-huffington-post-case/article_a61a6bbe-33f6-11e4-bd7c-001a4bcf887a.html" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0190cc; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">school administrators declined to say anything</a> when the paper reached out for comment. Al Jazeera experienced <a href="http://www.kansan.com/ku-administration-lacks-response-to-huffington-post-case/article_a61a6bbe-33f6-11e4-bd7c-001a4bcf887a.html" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0190cc; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">similar stonewalling</a>.</div>
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The Kansan's editorial board <a href="http://www.kansan.com/editorial-sexual-assault-not-a-learning-experience/article_0ed5c318-33f9-11e4-aa7e-001a4bcf887a.html" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0190cc; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">condemned</a> the university's handling of such cases, saying the administration "should be ashamed."</div>
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According to one tweet, a professor responded to the university's insistence that the student conduct disciplinary process is meant to be educational with a message on his white board: "Our bodies are not here to provide learning experiences for rapists."</div>
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In answer to a suggestion by the offender's lawyer that the victim's decision to use birth control implied that she had intended to have sex that night, students began tweeting about their own contraceptive use:</div>
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The victim, who requested anonymity, told HuffPost on Thursday that she's "thrilled" with the support from her fellow students, who don't even know her name.</div>
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"I couldn't be happier that people are reacting the way they are," she said. "It makes me feel like I'm finally getting the justice I deserve because people are finally paying attention -- not only to me, but to the corrupt system we victims have to go through. I'm so proud to have so many people on my side."</div>
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In her statement, Gray-Little asked students to take part in an upcoming sexual assault awareness week, sponsored by a student feminist group and the <a href="https://emilytaylorcenter.ku.edu/sexual-assault-awareness-week-0" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0190cc; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">Emily Taylor Center for Women & Gender Equity</a>.</div>
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District Attorney Charles Branson says his office will take another look at the possibility of filing charges in an alleged Kansas University campus rape after receiving new information related to the case.</div>
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The 20-year-old victim, in a recent interview with the Journal-World, said she was raped in October 2013 in Lewis Hall, where she and her alleged attacker both lived. Then a freshman, she said she went to a party with him, drank heavily and returned to his room, where he had sex with her and continued after she asked him to stop.</div>
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The Journal-World is not naming the victim, at her request. She is now a sophomore at KU.</div>
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The victim said she filed a police report with the Kansas University Office of Public Safety — which made its way to the district attorney’s office — and also a complaint with KU’s Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access, or <a href="http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2014/aug/09/ku-sexual-assault/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #125a95; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">IOA, which oversees sexual assault investigations and recommends penalties for perpetrators</a>.</div>
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IOA investigated her complaint, but the victim said she was dissatisfied with the penalties the university imposed on her alleged attacker. She believes he is still a student.</div>
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“I wanted him to get expelled,” she said. “I don’t think it’s OK for him to still be on the campus. It just gives me so much anxiety knowing that he’s still there and I could run into him again.”</div>
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KU representatives would not confirm whether the university investigated her case, citing confidentiality required by federal law.</div>
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Tammara Durham, vice provost for student affairs, said in a statement that KU encourages sexual assault victims to come forward and investigates thoroughly.</div>
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“KU can, and does, suspend and expel students for sexual assault,” Durham said. “The university gives survivors a voice by consulting with them regarding sanctions, and pursuing those sanctions a survivor finds most appropriate. For example, if a survivor believes the university should impose a suspension or expulsion the university did not otherwise intend to pursue, a hearing will take place to pursue such a sanction.”</div>
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The victim said she is still hopeful criminal charges will be filed against her attacker in court.</div>
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Branson said the case remains under review. The new information he learned last week involves another encounter between the victim and the same man, he said.</div>
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The victim said the same man who raped her in October also raped her several weeks earlier, in September 2013, also when she was heavily intoxicated. She reported the September incident to KU this spring, after the university completed its investigation into the October incident. KU’s investigation into the September incident is ongoing, the victim said.</div>
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She did not file a police report for the September incident, and Branson said his office was unaware of it until last week, when he met with the victim, her attorney and her mother.</div>
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“After the university’s action (the victim) made a second allegation of sex assault by the same suspect several weeks prior to this incident,” he said. “That information had never been shared with our office or law enforcement.”</div>
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Branson said Wednesday that he would consider the new information and determine whether it would make a difference in a charging decision. He declined to publicly discuss details of the alleged incident — and how those would affect the strengths and weaknesses of the case — because the victim’s family asked him not to.</div>
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The case generated buzz online and on campus Wednesday, after the Huffington Post published <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/02/university-of-kansas-rape_n_5731668.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #125a95; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">an interview</a> with the victim.</div>
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Numerous Twitter users posted opinions about the story along with the hashtag<a href="https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=%23agreatplacetobeunsafe" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #125a95; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">#AGreatPlaceToBeUnsafe</a>.</div>
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On Wednesday evening, KU's Student Rights Committee passed a resolution condemning the university's handling of student complaints of sexual assault.</div>
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The resolution, passed unanimously, calls on the school to create a designated victim's advocate, mandatory sexual assault training for all students and immediate reexamination of current policies and procedures.</div>
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Student body president Emma Halling spoke at the meeting, saying the lack of punishment handed down on the male student represented a "systematic failure."</div>
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"This is an issue that I've been working on for several years," Halling said after the meeting. "A lot of folks have personal experiences with this and they're not comfortable talking about it and so that inhibits the conversation, but this is an important campus dialogue."</div>
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The victim said Wednesday night that she was pleased with the attention.</div>
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“This really isn’t taken seriously, and it’s such a serious issue,” she said.</div>
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LAWRENCE, Kan. - A University of Kansas student called it rape. The university said it was "nonconsensual sex.”</div>
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KU has received national attention after the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/02/university-of-kansas-rape_n_5731668.html" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4190d9; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Huffington Post shared a freshman's experience of underage drinking and a subsequent alleged rape</a> .</div>
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The KU student who reported the rape last October is still a student.</div>
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She said a classmate assaulted her in his dorm room after she got drunk at an off-campus fraternity party.</div>
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She reported the incident to campus police.</div>
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The university investigated the case and found the accused student responsible of "nonconsensual sex."</div>
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This university terminology upset KU junior Isabella Hampton. She believed sexual assaults need to be taken more seriously on campus.</div>
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"If we're in an environment where we call rape nonconsensual sex it's obviously a problem," Hampton said.</div>
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The university put the accused student on probation, banned him from university housing and forced him to write a four-page reflection paper.</div>
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The victim's attorney told 41 Action News they filed a second complaint against the same classmate regarding an incident that happened before the October assault.</div>
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The Douglas County District Attorney released a statement that read in part:</div>
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Thursday afternoon chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little sent a letter to students, faculty and staff.</div>
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The chancellor is also asking students to participate in Sexual Assault Awareness Week which starts September 15th.</div>
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Prosecutors are taking another look at a woman's claims she was raped at a University of Kansas residence hall last year.</div>
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District Attorney Charles Branson said Wednesday that he received new information last week about another encounter between the accuser and the same man.</div>
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Branson confirmed to KCTV5's Bonyen Lee on Thursday that he will consider that information and whether it will make a difference in a charging decision.</div>
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He declined to publicly discuss details of the alleged incident - and how those would affect the strengths and weaknesses of the case - because the alleged victim's family asked him not to.</div>
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Branson's comments came the same day the university's Student Rights Committee passed a resolution condemning the school's handling of student complaints of sexual assault. Students are outraged about the situation.</div>
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The woman, who has asked to remain anonymous, has done interviews with the Huffington Post and the <em>Lawrence Journal-World</em>, but declined to speak with KCTV5 on Thursday.</div>
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The woman says she was raped after she and a male student went back to his dorm room following a fraternity party last fall. Both had been drinking significantly. She said she told the man, "No. Stop. No," and, "I can't do this," but that he continued to sexually assault her for another 15 minutes. She reported the assault to campus police and KU officials.</div>
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Despite a reported confession, the man never faced charges because Branson apparently decided there wasn't enough evidence to prosecute the man.</div>
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The woman now says she wishes she had never filed the report because of the trauma and grief she has endured since then. She says the university has added to her distress. </div>
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"The way [the university] dealt with it caused me so much more stress than the actual incident has," she told HuffPost.</div>
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However, she is grateful for the attention the issue has received this week and the subsequent support she has also received. </div>
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The woman's attorney, Chuck Schimmel, said the man raped his client twice last fall. The school found him guilty of "non-consensual sex." The punishment was a written letter in his file and being banned from student housing. He was ordered to write "a four-page reflection paper" on alcohol, incapacity and sexual activity, and get counseling.</div>
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The university decided community service would be too punitive. A police officer reportedly threatened to arrest the woman for underage drinking.</div>
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The man's attorney cited the woman taking a birth control pill the night of the party as evidence that she intended to have consensual sex. </div>
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The woman is now a sophomore. She was so outraged that she reported KU to the U.S. Department of Education, which launched a federal investigation of it and other universities for allegedly not properly handling sexual violence on campus. </div>
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KU officials said they could not comment on the specific case but they want students "to come forward so we can take prompt action to keep our campus safe."</div>
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Some students say those are empty words and that the university's actions have made men and woman uncomfortable with reporting sexual assaults.</div>
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"There is no blurred line. Rape is rape. He should definitely suffer the punishments," KU student Liam Murphy said. </div>
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Posted: <span class="posted" style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="2014-09-04T14:50:00-05:00">Thursday, September 4, 2014 2:50 pm</span> | <em style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Updated: 3:25 pm, Thu Sep 4, 2014.</em></div>
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Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little released a statement Thursday afternoon about sexual assault at the University. The statement comes on the heels of the Huffington Post article detailing the sexual assault hearing process at the University and student outrage.</div>
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The statement was emailed out to all students at the University and discusses how the University would like students to work to prevent sexual assault.</div>
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In disciplining a student for rape, the University of Kansas considered prior sex with the victim a mitigating factor</div>
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<span class="date" style="box-sizing: border-box;">September 4, 2014</span> <span class="time" style="box-sizing: border-box;">3:30PM ET</span></div>
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In January, the University of Kansas concluded that James had raped Rebecca, a fellow freshman, and punished him with probation, a ban from student housing and alcohol counseling<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</b></div>
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The sanction could have been heavier, but there was a mitigating factor that made his violation less serious, according to official university documents: A few weeks before James allegedly raped Rebecca, they had sex.</div>
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While Rebecca was going through the college disciplinary process, her mother watched an America Tonight <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/multimedia/2013/10/campus-sexual-assaulttownhall.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2677b9; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">series about campus sex crimes</a> and the students taking on their universities over the issue. Rebecca and her mother then filed a complaint with the federal Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, arguing that the university’s lenient sanctions violated the Title IX gender equality law, which has specific proscriptions for handling sexual assault.</div>
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In July, the federal government opened an investigation into KU, making it one of 76 colleges and universities facing a federal probe over how they address sexual violence.</div>
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But Rebecca doesn’t just believe the sanctions her alleged rapist received were unlawfully light. She says the sex she previously had with James – the sex that was partially responsible for lightening his punishment – also wasn’t consensual.</div>
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From the start of their freshman year on the Lawrence campus, Rebecca and James were fast friends. And a few weeks into school, Rebecca said she contacted James after a nasty fight with her boyfriend. She said he invited her to his dorm room and offered her tequila. He was hung over at the time, so he maybe had one beer that night, Rebecca said, but he mixed her about three Solo cups of potent margaritas, and she remembers only bits and pieces after that.</div>
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Months later, Rebecca came to believe that she had been so drunk at the time that her experience was technically rape. But right after it happened, she was just furious with herself, ashamed that she’d cheated on her boyfriend. She says she told James the next day to never mention it. It would never happen again.</div>
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“It didn’t happen,” Rebecca, now 20, said she told James. “It was one of the times I was really straightforward with him.”</div>
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A few weeks later, on Oct. 18, 2013, the two of them went to a fraternity party together. Rebecca said the next morning she woke up in James’ dorm room in her underwear and a sweatshirt, without a shred of memory of leaving the party. She said she slipped out of his room without waking him up, and as the day rolled on, her mental fog began to clear. It was especially confusing, she said, because someone had dressed her.</div>
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“I don’t think I ever said yes to that,” Rebecca said she thought. “And then I started thinking, ‘I really didn’t say yes to that.’”</div>
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Two days later, after talking to her boyfriend, best friend and parents, Rebecca called campus police, who immediately took James in for questioning. The department told America Tonight that state law prohibits release of the incident report. But Chuck Schimmel, Rebecca’s attorney, said he was able to review it, including the notes from James’ interview.</div>
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“He denied a struggle,” Schimmel said. “But he also claimed she said, ‘I don’t know,’ and then she said ‘no’ after he had already penetrated her, and he continued for about 15 minutes until he climaxed.”</div>
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The district attorney didn’t pursue charges, but kept the case open, as the university began its own investigation. In December, the university’s Institutional Opportunity & Access office concluded that James had <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/articles/2014/4/17/nonconsensual-sexwhenrapeisreworded.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2677b9; text-decoration: none;">nonconsensual sex</a> with Rebecca.</div>
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University documents obtained by America Tonight state that James ignored her statements like “I can’t do this,” “no” and “stop.” The university also decided that James should have been aware of how incapacitated Rebecca was since she needed help walking home, was unable to pick up her contact lenses when she dropped them and “[didn’t make] any sense when she talked” (see below).</div>
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But according to IOA, there were mitigating factors to the case, for example James’ own intoxication, his clean disciplinary record and the fact that they’d had sex before. IOA recommended that James be banned from campus housing, put on probation, required to complete a community service program and write a reflection paper.</div>
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“I don’t understand why [the sex before] would be relevant to anything, let alone mitigating it,” said Brett Sokolow, the president of the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management, who’s advised colleges on how to handle sexual assault cases for more than 15 years. “Look at marital rape. No matter how many times they’ve had consensual sex, the one time he rapes her it’s still rape. Why would you treat this any differently?”</div>
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Sokolow said there was only one clear way that James and Rebecca’s one-time previous sexual experience could be relevant to the case: as a clue to a pattern.</div>
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“He’s getting her drunk to take advantage of her,” he said. “This is an aggravating factor not a mitigating factor.”</div>
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KU did not respond to questions about its sexual assault policies, despite repeated requests. Last fall, <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/america-tonight-blog/2013/10/29/what-role-does-collegepartyingplayissexualassault.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2677b9; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">America Tonight published an exposé</a> on the drinking and hook-up culture at the university, and Katherine Gwynn, president of the KU student group Students United for Reproductive and Gender Equity, said that it’s become apparent that there is a gag order from high up in the administration against any mention of the story in official settings, including the school’s upcoming sexual assault awareness week.</div>
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After gathering this from multiple administration officials, Gwynn said she was “shocked” by what amounted to an “act of censorship.”</div>
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But Jane McQueeny, KU’s Title IX coordinator and the executive director of IOA, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/02/university-of-kansas-rape_n_5731668.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2677b9; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">did speak to The Huffington Post</a>. "When we make our recommendations, we look at what is going to help the respondent understand what happened and his responsibility for what happened,” she said. “Do they have some idea [of] what they have done and how it's affected the victim?"</div>
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Tammara Durham, KU’s vice provost for student affairs, <a href="http://m.ljworld.com/news/2014/sep/03/campus-rape-allegation-under-review-district-attor/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2677b9; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">told the Lawrence Journal-World</a> in a statement that the university's policy is to pursue “those sanctions a survivor finds most appropriate,” even offering a hearing if the alleged victim wants a suspension or expulsion that school officials weren’t originally considering.</div>
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Rebecca and her mother were consulted at the start of the disciplinary process and say they insisted on James serving community service at a minimum, later requesting suspension or expulsion. All of these were ignored and they say their desire for a hearing was summarily denied.</div>
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“If she’s going to lie like that, someone has to call her out on it,” Rebecca said Thursday afternoon of Durham's claims.</div>
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In January, the director of KU's Student Conduct and Community Standards, Nick Kehrwald, decided to reduce James’ sanctions from what IOA recommended, scrapping community service and the reflection paper. Rebecca appealed. And as she waited with her mother for the final decision of the university’s judicial board – the end-stop of the justice process at KU – they got onto the topic of the first time she and James had sex.</div>
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Rebecca admitted to her mother that alcohol had been involved – a lot of it. She admitted that she hadn’t wanted it to happen. Rebecca said she didn’t mention all of that before, because she hadn’t physically fought him off.</div>
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In April, the judicial board dismissed the appeal, with KU’s Associate General Counsel Rachel E. Wolf concluding that community service would “strictly be punitive” – not educational – so it would be inappropriate in this case. From the perspective of the university, James made an alcohol-based mistake with someone he’d had sex with before, and education was the only suitable response. From Rebecca's perspective, James was one of the <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/america-tonight-blog/2014/3/14/why-don-t-we-talkaboutalltheserialrapists.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2677b9; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">six in 10 college rapists who rape again</a>.</div>
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“I do think he purposefully tried to get me drunk,” she said. “He knew obviously from the previous experience that if I was drunk, then I would let stuff happen.”</div>
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Also in April, Rebecca formally reported the first incident as a rape to the university. KU still hasn’t completed its investigation. But last month, Douglas County District Attorney Charles Branson learned about the first alleged assault and has indicated a renewed attention to Rebecca’s case and the possibility of criminal charges.</div>
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“This matter remains under investigation and no final decision has been made,” Branson said in a statement over email.</div>
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Although Rebecca believes she was raped twice, she doesn’t know if James thought he was raping her at the time. A letter by James’ attorney Michael J. Fischer, submitted during the appeal, states that James and Rebecca had a “typical ‘college freshmen romantic relationship’” derailed by “alcohol and confusion.”</div>
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The <a href="https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/221153.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2677b9; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">vast majority of college rapes</a> are alcohol-based, where the victim is too drunk to consent. And <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Never-Called-Rape-Recognizing-Acquaintance/dp/0060925728" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2677b9; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">many college rape victims</a> don’t identify their experience as rape. The fact that many college rapists don’t identify it as rape either, experts say, is what can often disincline juries to convict and make school conduct boards so squeamish to expel. The kid simply didn’t know better.</div>
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For Schimmel, Rebecca’s attorney, that’s what makes a case like this so frustrating and so chilling.</div>
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“The fact that he didn’t think what he had done was wrong or criminal,” he said, “shows you that there’s a problem.” </div>
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Posted: <span class="posted" style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="2014-09-04T01:02:00-05:00">Thursday, September 4, 2014 1:02 am</span> | <em style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Updated: 10:29 am, Thu Sep 4, 2014.</em></div>
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The University administration should be ashamed at the accusations regarding the mishandling of a reported on-campus rape last year. The University Daily Kansan will seek the truth about why it happened and hold administrative bodies accountable for their actions.</div>
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Tyler Kingkade’s article in the Huffington Post reports that a male student confessed to raping a female student in her dorm room after she got drunk at a fraternity party. He was found “guilty of non-consensual sexual intercourse” — which is rape — by the Office of Institutional Opportunity & Access (IOA), the campus entity that primarily deals with sexual assault reporting through the University.</div>
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The article said the University proceeded by placing the student on probation, banning him from student housing, and requiring him to write a four-page reflection essay as well as seek counseling. Rachel Rolf, associate general counsel for the University, told Kingkade that community service as a punishment would be too harsh.</div>
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The decision to rid the person of community service shows a lack of obvious action in this case. It also sets the precedent that sexual assault will be treated less rigidly than violations such as plagiarism, underage drinking or drug use on campus.</div>
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The IOA’s sexual harassment policy states that “sexual harassment is a violation... of federal and state law.” Why, then, is the University not treating these incidents as serious, illegal offenses? What message is this sending to victims who would rather not report a sexual assault? The University is telling them that the people who have wronged them could hardly suffer reasonable consequences.</div>
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Here’s the big issue: What part is the University playing in rape culture on campus? In the United States? We are, after all, on the list of 76 schools being investigated by the Department of Education for possible Title IX sexual assault violations.</div>
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The University should be protecting its students from future incidents of sexual assault, not letting offenders get by with a slap on the wrist. It is not enough to state that sexual assault is wrong; how the University handles these situations sends a message to the student body.</div>
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The first three bolded sections under Section II in the Association for Student Conduct Administration’s Gold Standard Practices for Resolution of Allegations</div>
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of Sexual Misconduct on College Campuses, the practices and guidelines the University said it follows, are:</div>
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1. First and foremost, student conduct is an educational process.</div>
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2. We have an obligation to respond to sexual violence that affects students.</div>
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3. Campuses are not courtrooms.</div>
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The Kansan Editorial Board understands the distinction between a campus and the criminal justice system. A campus hearing is not meant to mirror a criminal proceeding. But treating sexual assault cases as learning experiences? We simply do not agree.</div>
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The University should be focusing on educating students prior to an instance of sexual assault, and not through 37-slide presentations, ball pits and quiz programs that a student can breeze through in less than a minute. Show us where these situations occur in the real world. Make us understand consent. Be transparent about what the process and the sanctions look like. If there is indeed evidence of a crime, make it easier, not more complicated, for students to take legal action.</div>
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The University should not contribute to a non-reporting culture. If students knew up front that someone who potentially raped him or her would only be required to leave campus and write a paper, no one would report.</div>
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Tammara Durham, vice provost for student affairs, said Wednesday that the University and the victim agree upon an appropriate sanction for the accused after the investigation. If the victim wants to pursue a stricter sentence, such as expulsion or suspension, the victim can pursue a hearing process. Another time he or she will have to recount and live through their story. A deterring road block in the process.</div>
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Section III, subsection E of the ASCA’s practices guide says: “While an act of sexual violence can never be ‘undone,’ there may be situations in which sanctions or remedies can include some restoration of harm caused. Engage the campus community in conversation about appropriate sanctions and create a sanctioning guide… Include the rationale for sanctions so that both students understand the decisions.”</div>
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So much good can be done if we work together with administrators to change the process — before, during and after. To the University: show your students a commitment to meaningful education and just consequences. Show zero tolerance. Prove you are, indeed, advocates for students.</div>
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The core values of The University Daily Kansan as the student voice are to report the truth and hold administrative bodies and student leaders accountable for their actions. That will continue to be of utmost importance to us moving forward.</div>
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This coverage has encouraged quite a few students to speak out and voice their concerns. We will do our absolute best to be on top of everything related to the issue and be the source students, faculty, staff and alumni trust and come to when looking for the most recent information. You can expect us to dig deeper than we ever have before to shed light on rape culture at KU.</div>
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This is an incredibly important issue that undoubtedly affects students across campus, directly or indirectly. We will strive to tell the stories that are igniting our campus.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Members of The Kansan Editorial Board are Cecilia Cho, Emma LeGault, Maddie Schultz, Hannah Barling and Christina Carreira.</em></div>
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Posted: <span class="posted" style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="2014-09-04T00:45:00-05:00">Thursday, September 4, 2014 12:45 am</span> | <em style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Updated: 9:31 am, Thu Sep 4, 2014.</em></div>
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<span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">By: Rochelle Valverde | @chelleval</span></div>
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University and Lawrence offices have not responded after coming under national scrutiny based on The Huffington Post article published on Sept. 2 detailing the punishment a student received for sexual assault last year.</div>
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When contacted for comment, the Alumni Association did not return The Kansan’s call Wednesday.</div>
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The Kansas Board of Regents did not return The Kansan’s voicemail Wednesday.</div>
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The Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence did not return The Kansan’s voicemail Wednesday.</div>
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Douglas County District Attorney Charles Branson failed to return The Kansan’s call and voicemail Wednesday.</div>
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Watkins Health Center directed The Kansan to speak with the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access (IOA) Wednesday.</div>
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The IOA investigates each sexual assault reported and recommends sanctions for the perpetrator to the Office of Student Conduct, which then decides which recommendations to implement.</div>
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The article said that an investigation by the IOA determined the man guilty of “non-consensual sex” and punished him with probation and a ban from University housing. He was also ordered to write a four-page reflection paper and attend counseling.</div>
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Jane McQueeny, the executive director of IOA, said probation means that the male involved had to meet with the director of Student Conduct and Community Standards. The Office of Student Conduct determines how the University will address allegations of non-academic misconduct.</div>
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IOA recommended the man also do community service, but the Office of Student Conduct decided that was too “punitive,” according to the article.</div>
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In an interview on Sept. 3, McQueeny said she couldn’t speak directly to the specific case. She said IOA investigated 20 reports of sexual assault and harassment in 2013 and 17 so far this year. Of these 37, she said 27 cases were sexual assault. McQueeny said they try to do what’s best for victims.</div>
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“I think it's important to know that we can go through an investigation and do the best we can and do everything right, but at the end there is always going to be one side that isn't happy, who's disgruntled, who feels like they weren't treated fairly,” McQueeny said. “And so part of what we try to do is to be a front in our communications and be transparent in the process, but that still doesn't guarantee that someone's not going to be unhappy with the result.”</div>
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A statement made by the University on Wednesday said they are committed to creating a safe environment for everyone in the community. The University works with victims to determine appropriate sanctions against the accused. In attempts to prevent sexual assault from occurring, the University provides sexual assault and harassment training to all students, faculty and staff.</div>
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According to the Huffington Post article, both students involved in the case attended a party on Oct. 18, 2013, hosted by the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. After midnight, the female student was drunk and was assisted by the male student, who walked with her to the dorm where they both lived, the article said. Once there, they reportedly had sex in his room.</div>
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The woman reported the assault on Oct. 20, 2013. The article said that the man later told campus police that he continued to have sex with the woman after she said “no,” “stop” and “I can’t do this.” </div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Paige Stingley, Emily Donovan, McKenna Harford, Dalton Kingery and Erica Staab contributed to this article.</em></div>
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— Edited by Hannah Barling and Amelia Arvesen</div>
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Posted: <span class="posted" style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="2014-09-04T00:55:00-05:00">Thursday, September 4, 2014 12:55 am</span> | <em style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Updated: 9:31 am, Thu Sep 4, 2014.</em></div>
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<span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">By: Allison Kite | @Allie_Kite</span></div>
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Anger, disbelief, disappointment and horror colored students’ tweets on the #AGreatPlaceToBeUnsafe hashtag on Twitter.</div>
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The hashtag, based on the University’s slogan, “A great place to be…” called attention to the issues students had with the way the University handled a case of sexual assault reported in October.</div>
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The case, which placed the University on a list of 76 universities under investigation by the federal government, was recently picked up by the Huffington Post, bringing national attention.</div>
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The article reported that the man confessed to raping the woman and was punished with a required essay and counseling, expulsion from his dormitory and disassociation from his fraternity. Some students, such as Lenexa senior Michael Garrett, said the punishment is too light.</div>
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“In what other case in today’s world is a rape charge going to be settled with writing an essay, being kicked out of your dormitory and going to take counseling courses?” Garrett said. “...any other place, if you rape another person, that’s a huge crime, and you’re going to be dealt with to the full extent of the law. Why is this a different case if there’s a clear violation of the law?”</div>
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Garrett said he believes the issue stems from the University’s established protocol and the University needs to reevaluate those standards.</div>
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“It kind of seems like KU handled it the way protocol states, and I just don’t think that is the right way that it should be happening,” Garrett said.</div>
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Joey Hentzler, a senior from Topeka, is not only frustrated with the University, but local authorities as well. Charles Branson, Douglas County district attorney, decided not to press charges despite a confession from the man, according to the Huffington Post article.</div>
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“When we talk about the University’s response, we should talk about the response of police and local officials like the D.A.,” Hentzler said. “It’s just a consistent failure to provide adequate redress, so the victim is not given justice. It’s a part of our culture or it’s a part of people’s misunderstanding of rape that the transgressor even if he’s found guilty – he admitted to it – is still not prosecuted.”</div>
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Miranda Wagner, a senior from Shawnee and a member of the Title IX roundtable, said she believes there is an overall cultural problem with how rape victims are treated that could lead people to not want to report.</div>
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“I think that overall in our culture we have such a prevalent attitude of victim-blaming and not asking the right questions about the situation,” Wagner said. “That’s what leads people to not want to report: those attitudes that we see throughout different law enforcement agencies and apparently at the University level too.”</div>
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The use of phrases like “non-consensual sex” in the University’s communications angered students like Liz James, a sophomore from Overland Park. James is the sexual assault activism coordinator for Students United for Reproductive and Gender Equity at KU (SURGE KU). James said she believed “non-consensual sex” didn’t exist. She said it’s rape.</div>
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The man’s attorney, Michael J. Fisher, cited the woman’s possession and consumption of birth-control pills as consent and evidence that no rape occurred, according to the article. Kailee Karr, a senior from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, said she was frustrated by the use of birth-control as evidence of consent in the man’s defense. Karr, who said she intends to pursue a career in higher education student affairs and counseling, said there are lots of non-sexual reasons to use birth-control pills.</div>
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“As a young woman on birth control for non-sexual reasons, it made me fearful that if something were to happen to me, I would have no support from my community, from the University that I’ve spent the past four years trying to give back to and really trying to make a safe place,” Karr said.</div>
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Nolan Jones, an alumnus who graduated in 2007, said he was a member of Student Senate when he attended the University and was active in the “safe walk” program, which placed the blue emergency lights on campus. He said the initiative was helpful but does little for cases that take place off campus or involve alcohol.</div>
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“I think that there’s so much in terms of consent awareness and alcohol education that I was not involved in in my time at KU, and looking from the vantage point I’ve got now, that’s where so many of these problems are,” Jones said.</div>
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Posted: <span class="posted" style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="2014-09-04T00:52:00-05:00">Thursday, September 4, 2014 12:52 am</span> | <em style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Updated: 9:31 am, Thu Sep 4, 2014.</em></div>
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Emma Halling, acting student body president presented a resolution to the Student Senate Rights Committee that condemns the University’s handling of sexual assault cases on campus.</div>
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Halling, a senior from Elkhart, Ind., who referred to the University’s actions as absolutely unacceptable, is the first person affiliated with the University to speak out against current policies in place. She said that no one from the administration has contacted her since the Huffington Post article was published on Sept. 2.</div>
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“When the University of Kansas doesn’t expel, doesn’t suspend and doesn’t even submit to community service someone who is an admitted rapist, we are absolutely not fulfilling our obligation to eliminate a hostile environment for our students,” Halling said.</div>
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The resolution included a call to action for the University to improve the way it handles sexual assault cases. Suggestions include hiring a victim advocate for those going through the hearing process, having mandatory sexual assault training for students and a reexamination of current policies.</div>
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“The system we have in place is failing our students,” Halling said.</div>
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Halling said the University is technically in compliance with federal sexual assault laws established by Title IX, but that isn’t enough.</div>
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“I don’t care about that right now,” Halling said. “I care about the well-being of our female students, and national standards be damned, they are not being well served.”</div>
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Halling said there is a large issue with underreporting sexual assault on campus and that issues with the hearing and reporting process aren’t always brought to light.</div>
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“After victims go through this process and are so ill-served by it, they don’t want to talk about it anymore,” Halling said.</div>
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Halling’s sentiments were shared by many within the Student Rights committee.</div>
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“We need to move forward as a University and we need to listen to the student voice,” Student Senate Graduate Affairs Director Angela Murphy said.</div>
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Mitchell Cota, a senior from Leawood and acting chief of staff, said that it’s crucial for Senate to show the administration and students that they are taking this seriously.</div>
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“I think that it’s important that Student Senate takes a stance when it comes to protecting student’s rights and their safety,” Cota said.</div>
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On the night of Oct. 18, 2013, a few blocks from the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence, Kansas, underage students put back vodka shots at a "Stars and Stripes"-themed party hosted by the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. One of the students was a young woman, a freshman from out of state who after midnight was drunk enough to need help from a male classmate getting back to the campus dorm where they both lived. They went to his room that night and had sex.</div>
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The man would later admit to campus police that he continued to have sex with the woman even after she said "no," "stop" and "I can't do this."</div>
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To the woman, that confession is a clear-cut sign she was raped. When she <a href="http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/fratreport.pdf" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0190cc; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">reported</a>the attack on Oct. 20, she assumed it would lead to swift punishment. But area police and the local district attorney have so far refused to prosecute the male student for sexual assault. The school wasn't much better, declaring the man guilty of "nonconsensual sex" and punishing him with probation and a ban from university housing, and ordering him to write a four-page reflection paper and seek counseling.</div>
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The university also considered having the man perform community service, but ultimately decided such a measure was too "punitive." Meanwhile, the woman says that a local police officer threatened to arrest her when she acknowledged that she'd taken part in underage drinking at the fraternity.</div>
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The woman, now a sophomore, requested anonymity when speaking with The Huffington Post.</div>
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"I was just so baffled at how little of a punishment he was getting," she said of the male student.</div>
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The woman still wants justice. After finding no help at the local level, she turned to the federal government, filing a complaint against KU in April.</div>
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The University of Kansas became one of <a href="http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/OCR8-27-14.pdf" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0190cc; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">76 higher education institutions under federal investigation</a> in July for how it handles sexual violence on campus. Schools are required under the gender equity law Title IX to respond to reports of sexual assault, in addition to any criminal proceedings, as a way to keep their campuses free of harassment or a hostile environment. But like many college sexual assault victims who have brought the issue to the attention of <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/30/senate-college-sexual-assault-bill_n_5632298.html" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0190cc; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">Congress</a> and the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/29/white-house-college-sexual-assault_n_5235747.html" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0190cc; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">White House</a>, the female student says she was let down by lenient punishments and local officials who refused to even try to put her alleged rapist behind bars.</div>
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"People need to know how little attention this is being given when they do come forward to the university," she said. "You get serious consequences for plagiarizing, and you get horrible consequences if you have a six-pack of beer in your dorm. I think this is more serious than those, and it's given very little attention."</div>
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The morning after the Lambda Chi Alpha party, the woman remembers being confused. Text messages show her trying to recollect what had happened with the man, who told her "You were deff [sic] drunk."</div>
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As the woman pieced together what happened, she went to campus police to report the male student for sexual assault. When police interviewed the male student later that week, he said that he'd continued intercourse with the woman until he reached orgasm, even after she'd said "no" and asked for the sexual contact to stop, according to the woman's attorney, Chuck Schimmel.</div>
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"To me, the law is that you have to disengage from sex once someone tells you to stop or 'no,'" said Schimmel, noting that the man was also aware of the woman's heavy intoxication at the time.</div>
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Douglas County District Attorney Charles Branson decided by the end of October 2013 not to press charges, despite the man's confession, because there was a less than 1 percent chance a jury would convict, according to the woman's family.</div>
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"Well, if those 99 percent are for sure losers, how many of them come with a full confession?" the woman's mother said in an interview with HuffPost. "It's not 'he said, she said.' It's 'she said, he confirmed.'"</div>
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The Huffington Post reached out to Branson on Aug. 24 to get his side of the story. The following day, Branson said it would be improper for him to comment because he was reopening the case. He said he'd received new information while speaking with Schimmel about HuffPost's interview request.</div>
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But KU fully investigated the case back in 2013.</div>
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The accused student was found responsible for "nonconsensual sex" on Dec. 20 by KU's office for Institutional Opportunity and Access (IOA), which handled the case. He was punished with probation, counseling, a ban from university housing and a mandatory reflection paper "regarding alcohol, incapacity and sexual activity," according to confidential documents signed by Nick Kehrwald, director of KU's student conduct and community standards, and obtained by The Huffington Post.</div>
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"Given your assisting [the woman's] walk home, as well as witnessing her behavior in the room, IOA concluded that you knew or should have known of [her] incapacitation," Kehrwald wrote, noting that at no point did the accused man deny the charges against him or provide any statement in his own defense.</div>
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IOA had recommended that the male student also perform community service, listed on KU documents as a more severe punishment than probation, but Kehrwald decided against that. He wrote to the male student, "I expect in the future you will use more appropriate judgment in your decision-making." Then Kehrwald wrote in an email to the woman that he "understood that these sanctions addressed your concerns and were considered fair."</div>
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The woman's family begged to differ.</div>
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On Feb. 26, the female student appealed the university's sanctions for being too lenient. The male student was given two weeks to respond in his own defense. But that response didn't come for nearly four weeks, arriving March 24 in the form of a statement from the man's attorney, Michael J. Fischer. That statement pointed to an existing relationship between the two students, and cited the fact that the woman took a birth control pill the night of the party as evidence that no rape had occurred:</div>
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"While no one other than [the female student] can know of her intent, her decision to bring and subsequently take her birth control pill provides at least some indication that she intended to have consensual sex that night," Fischer's statement reads in part.</div>
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But that rebuttal didn't matter, because KU associate general counsel Rachel E. Rolf had already dismissed the appeal on March 12, writing that the sanctions were consistent with university policy. Adding community service wouldn't be possible, said Rolf, because it would "strictly be punitive."</div>
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"The student conduct process," Rolf wrote, "is intended to be educational, not punitive."</div>
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The woman said if she'd known how the university was going to handle her case, she might not have reported at all.</div>
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"The way [the university] dealt with it caused me so much more stress than the actual incident has," she told HuffPost.</div>
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The woman's family has also taken issue with the university's refusal to investigate the fraternity for serving alcohol to minors.</div>
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On Oct. 26, a week after the original frat party, the woman's family went to police to<a href="http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/fratreport.pdf" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0190cc; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">report</a> the minors who had been drinking there. But Lawrence police officer Tim Froese told the family that people at the location where the party was held wouldn't talk. And since the woman had admitted to consuming alcohol as an 18-year-old, Froese said she'd confessed to a crime. He threatened twice to charge her for being a minor in possession of alcohol.</div>
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"That sounds like the most outrageous, offensive thing I've heard," said Adam Goldstein, attorney advocate at the Student Press Law Center, who is not involved in the woman's case. Goldstein said that threatening charges against a witness to a potentially ongoing criminal offense "suggests a concerted unwillingness to enforce" the fraternity's violation of alcohol-related liquor laws.</div>
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When asked about the threat of arrest to the student, Lawrence police said they could not locate any complaint filed with their department regarding the officer who investigated the incident.</div>
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Meanwhile, Lambda Chi Alpha won't be punishing the male student because the "individual involved was never initiated" into the fraternity, a national spokesman said. The fraternity did, however, put the KU chapter on probation for violating university and fraternity rules on event planning and policy procedures after learning about the incident.</div>
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For months after the assault, the female student repeatedly saw the man on campus, sending her into what she describes as a "full-blown panic attack." It's clear to her a more severe punishment was warranted.</div>
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"Basically, he was getting a slap on the wrist," she said.</div>
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The accused student, through his attorney, declined to speak with HuffPost. But the school attempted to explain:</div>
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"When we make our recommendations, we look at what is going to help the respondent understand what happened and his responsibility for what happened," said Jane McQueeny, KU's Title IX coordinator and executive director of IOA, who issued the original recommendation that the offender receive community service on top of probation. "Do they have some idea [of] what they have done and how it's affected the victim?"</div>
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University officials "agonize over every single one of these decisions," McQueeney said.</div>
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KU issued four expulsions and one suspension for violations of the school's sexual harassment policy in the 2013-14 year, and two expulsions and four suspensions for such offenses in the academic year prior.</div>
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"KU follows the best practices of the Association for Student Conduct Administration, which is [regarded] as the premier association for the field," said KU spokeswoman Erinn Barcomb-Peterson. "The ASCA standards maintain that 'the primary role of student conduct administrators is that of educator.'"</div>
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ASCA, a national organization for administrators dealing with student misconduct, distributes literature to its 3,100 members explaining that "campus proceedings are educational" and not meant to mimic the processes or punishments of courtrooms.</div>
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"These decisions aren't made in a vacuum," Kehrwald, the student conduct director, told HuffPost in an interview. "There are conversations with my assistant vice provost and the vice provost."</div>
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Kehrwald added that "from a student conduct perspective," any time they are not separating a student from the school, they want to implement sanctions that will "better equip the student to be successful while they're at the institution."</div>
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Brett Sokolow, president and CEO of the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management, who frequently counsels schools on how to handle incidents of sexual assault, said that applying such a sanction in this case did not appear appropriate.</div>
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The KU case shows why leaving these matters in the hands of student conduct administrators who lack training in the complexities of sexual violence -- rather than in the hands of a Title IX coordinator -- is a bad idea, Sokolow said.</div>
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"They want desperately to believe they can use a reflection paper to teach him to stop next time," Sokolow said. "They don't think about the next victim, if he does not stop."</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Need help? In the U.S., visit the National Sexual Assault Online Hotline operated by<a href="https://ohl.rainn.org/online/" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0190cc; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">RAINN</a>. For more resources, visit the <a href="http://www.nsvrc.org/resources" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0190cc; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">National Sexual Violence Resource Center's website</a>.</em></div>
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