Five women, mostly former students, claimed that the University of North Carolina created a hostile environment for students who reported a sexual assault in a massive complaint filed Wednesday with the U.S. Department of Education.
A lengthy article in the student newspaper The Daily Tar Heel notes that “the complaint is rich with stories of hostility, including the administration’s failure to train Honor Court members who facilitated sexual assault hearings, to treat both the accused and accusing student fairly and to keep survivors informed.”
The 34-page complaint asserts UNC violated multiple federal laws: Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Tar Heel reports.
The article includes several anecdotes, including from a former student who notes that “when I went to report my assault in 2007, I asked an administrator what the process would look like. Instead, that person told me, ‘Rape is like a football game, Annie. If you look back on the game, and you’re the quarterback and you’re in charge, is there anything that you would have done differently in that situation?’”
Administrators, for their part, said they take sexual assault claims seriously.
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