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The Lessons of the Iowa Sex Assault Scandal

By Corey Rayburnyung

I've blogged before about the sexual assault at my alma mater by former football players. abyss2hope has an interesting post about the policy lessons we can draw from the incident:To see what can go wrong when a university has a flawed sexual assault policy, just look at the University of Iowa's handling of a report of rape by a student athlete. The findings of an independent review led to the firing of Phillip Jones, the vice president of student services, and Marcus Mills, the university's general counsel.... Too often when a rape case has been mishandled this way, the statement that all policies were followed would be the end of the college's response. When that happens then the college is promising only more of the same. The first report by Tom Evans issued in June essentially did just that...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on October 08, 2008 (boomark / email).