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Campus sex assault rules fall short, prompting overhaul call

By HEATHER HOLLINGS-
WORTH
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — What
Karla Arango says started
as a dorm-room sexual as-
sault got even worse as
word spread around cam-
pus. Her attacker's frater-
nity brothers snubbed her,
she says, whispering about
her in the cafeteria, block-
ing her phone number and
unfriending her on social
media. Soon her grades
were slipping.
Arango's experience in her
first year at Northern Ken-
tucky University highlights
what experts see as deep-
seated problems with Title
IX, the 1972 federal civil
rights law that prohibits TITLE IX
sexual discrimination in
education. It turns 50 this
month.
Heralded as a game
changer for female col- at 50
lege athletes, the law also
is supposed to protect sex-
ual assault and harassment
accusers like Arango, giv-
ing them options like mov- University of Oregon students and staff protest on the steps of Johnson Hall on the UO campus in Eugene, Ore. Thursday May 8, 2014,
ing dormitories or even against sexual violence in the wake of allegations of rape brought against three UO basketball players by a fellow student.
getting their attackers re- Associated Press
moved from the school. Polarizing regulations final- coming forward with abuse person of their alleged at- and allowed colleges to ig-
In practice, the law’s pro- ized under former Presi- allegations. Those who do tacker’s choosing. The rules nore most cases arising off
tections fall short, accusers dent Donald Trump have face a live hearing and also narrowed the defini- campus.
and advocates say. discouraged students from cross-examination by a tion of sexual harassment Continued on next page