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Senator Bob Casey @SenBobCasey
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As students return to their college classrooms, we should be working to ensure their safety, not peeling back their protections against campus sexual assault as Sec. DeVos announced today
Title IX is a cornerstone of federal law to protect students from sexual harassment and sexual assault, and these regulations will hurt victims and make it harder for them to seek justice
The regulations also appear to conflict with other federal law, like the Clery Act, which I amended in 2013 to improve how schools respond to sexual assault
This conflicting guidance from the Department of Education will make it harder for victims to come forward and will discourage the changes that needs to happen to keep young women safe
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'The Department of Education's proposed Title IX regulations on campus sexual assault and harassment are a great improvement on Obama-era guidelines...'

@dcexaminer (full text below) Likt this? RT it! washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editor…
'Most importantly, the proposed new rules bolster due process protections in campus proceedings.

But the main lesson of recent years' stories on campus sexual assault cases isn't simply that the current rules are at fault.'
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As part of my dissertation research, I interviewed a male victim of domestic violence. We spoke at length about his hesitations in accessing campus resources. The most severe? That he would get "Title IX'd."
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The #DeVos administration wants to limit the definition of sexual harassment to include actions that are "objectively offensive." In a nation where sexual violence is increasingly politicized, that's a problem.
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In a college context, who will we think is the most objectively offensive when they commit acts of sexual violence? Honors students? Children of professors? Football players? Fraternity men? Or will it be students of color? Or queer students?
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Hi.
I posted this a year ago about @BetsyDeVosED and sexual assaults on campus.
It is happening now.
She will release new guidelines the next few days.
New Rules Would Boost Rights of Those Accused of Campus Sexual Assaults.
Read the last sentence again.
👆👆👆👆👆not a parody twitter account... wsj.com/articles/new-r…
And here is @MSNBC reporting on it today.
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Campus sexual assault impacts millions of students, their families and universities. @Enquirer spoke to victims, the accused, and faculty to share what this devastating epidemic looks like: sextalk.usatoday.com
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