Several high-profile assault cases on college campuses are leading many schools to address how they prevent and respond to them. Here are some ways universities can protect students from assault:
- Create a safe system in which students can freely report any non-varsity-athlete attackers to campus authorities
- Installation of a 24-hour hotline for anyone with information on what the victim was wearing that night
- Formulating a written action plan that outlines exactly how the school will deflect reports of assault
- Ask all prospective students to thoroughly explicate the word “no” on their applications
- TKE’s blacklight rush party to be attended by at least one Title IX attorney
- Grievance panels to carefully assess all the facts from both victim and assailant to determine whose family is the bigger donor
- Lengthen orientation-week skits about alcohol tolerance and party safety from 15 minutes to a full 25
- Provide everyone on campus, both students and faculty, with a clear definition of behaviors that constitute boys just being boys
- Allegations to be immediately reviewed by a dedicated team of internet commenters