The way colleges handle sexual violence on campus is like a how-to on institutional neglect
I was floored. Again, I expected mediocre — but it actually seemed from these stories like [Harvard] was epically screwing up again and again. And so were its peers, from small local schools to huge state ones, all making the same mistakes over and over. “I actually know a current survivor and student at Tufts, and the same people who mishandled my case, they also mishandled his,” Wagatwe Wanjuki, an anti-rape activist with the group Know Your IX said in an interview on Democracy Now!Tales of sexual violence followed by administrative bungling (or worse) at schools like Brown, Columbia, Tufts, Harvard and many other schools, read together like a how-to on institutional neglect. And I’d argue that what’s most appalling is not just the result of any particular case but rather what appears to be a pattern of seemingly ill-equipped, ignorant campus discipline boards asking intrusive questions, repeating victim-blaming tropes, and pushing survivors to “move on.”
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