College Title IX officer: Not feeling welcome on campus deserves same response as rape

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'When students of color don’t feel welcome on campus, it’s just as serious as rape.

That’s the impression that Wesleyan University’s Antonio Farias, vice president for equality and inclusion and Title IX officer, gave the campus community in his response to recent student protests.

Following up on President Michael Roth’s promise to “communicate better” about the school’s existing system for reporting incidents that are “concerning, harmful and/or contrary to” community standards, Farias wrote:

"We cannot fix what we cannot see, and it is apparent from the heartrending stories I’ve heard from marginalized students that our system of documenting and investigating instances of discrimination is not sufficiently understood and used across the campus. Reporting is an essential first step to get at the root causes of discriminatory behaviors that are caustic to the learning process."'