A troubling trend in campus sexual assault findings

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'Two recent findings from the federal government regarding how school's handle campus sexual assault cases have had a disturbing similarity: Both schools were faulted for not investigating an accusation even when the accuser didn't want it investigated.

At Michigan State University, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights determined the school failed to provide a "prompt and equitable" response to an accusation because it failed to investigate an informal complaint — one where the accuser chose not to go through the school process of a formal hearing. Now the same accusation (among others) has been made against the University of Virginia.

U.Va. was found in violation of Title IX because, among other things, OCR determined it hadn't handled 22 out of 50 reports of sexual harassment and assault between the 2008-2009 and 2011-2012 school years. When U.Va. President Teresa Sullivan was asked about those cases by the Washington Post, she noted that each of those 22 cases involved students who didn't file a formal complaint or want to go through the procedure for what are technically known as "informal" complaints.'