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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sorry, but those of you who think this list means anything or would base your college decisions on it are terribly misguided.  This is simply a list of  institutions against which an OCR complaint is currently pending. That just means a student is unhappy with the results of the school's internal response to her complaint.  It doesn't mean there is systemic harassment of women at the school, and it doesn't mean that the school's anti-harassment procedures are necessarily deficient or were even deficient in that student's case.  It just means OCR is currently investigating.  OCR is a highly political organization, and the only conceivable reason for publishing this "list" is to pressure all institutions of higher education to adopt whatever anti-harassment enforcement mechanisms the current OCR thinks are desirable, and to get voters who don't think critically to believe that the Obama administration "fights for women."   OCR is very open that it would hold schools accountable for student on student misconduct well beyond what current law requires.  You should think hard  about how much a university really can or should do about private conduct between two young adults, particularly when alcohol is involved, and it is a matter of he said, she said.  Of course there are the easy cases where the football team gang rapes an unconscious girl, but most cases are not so cut and dry.[/quote]

Agree, every school has this problem because you have a bunch of young adults drinking and doing whatever they want. Yale isn't on list because the list has nothing to do with assaults occurring, even though the last two years there have been a number of assaults. Most recent report below.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/22/nyregion/two-sexual-assaults-are-reported-at-yale.html?_r=0
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