Were failing to get these perpetrators into the criminal Justice System and what we need to do to improve our abysmal record in that regard. I thank all of you for being here. You were all invited because you are experts in various ways on this issue. And this is not a hearing. This is a conversation. The goal here, and i want to say for senator gillibrand and senator blumenthal, they are both very sorry they cannot be here today. Im sure theyll be participating in the other roundtables we will have. Were working on drafting legislation. And what we want to do is maybe simplify because i know this is now a complex labyrinth of different rules between save and cleary and title 9 and different standards of proof, different state statutes. We dont even agree on the definition of consent. So those are challenges that i know this area represents and we want to see if we can simplify, clarify, augment, support, perhaps provide more mandatory training but with the grants that go with that so
Federal money cannot chase the declines were experiencing so long. And that reorientation of the traditional bargain about the feds, the states, the institutions and families and philanthropy together paying for education is something that we need to improve. Fortunately, its been stabilizing in many states, and maybe we are moving in that positive direction. But the something that is overlooked, if we think about the danger side of an allocation that follows institutions that are effective in educating first generation underrepresented students, those who have who do, indeed, pose an educational challenge for institutions and whose graduation is the reason for our investing so much in student aid. We look at the negative side of who might lose. I would encourage us all to think about the Positive Side of having the information that would allow us to reinforce the resources and grow the resources to those institutions who have the kind of track record that many of you were talking abou
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Kristin Smart, the long-missing Stockton student, was 19 years old when she disappeared after attending an on-campus party at Cal Poly during her freshman year.
Jeanne Clery was 19 years old when she was raped and murdered in her dorm room by another student while a freshman at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1986.
The similar cases, a decade apart, sparked national conversation and shaped legislation that changed universities’ obligations to report crimes, coordinate with off-campus authorities and disclose campus safety data. But have those steps amounted to greater safety for students? And are they enough?
In the weeks after prosecutors formally charged Flores, The Record reached out to schools, students and organizations involved with student safety and assault. Those who agreed to address specific crimes and cases said the answer to both questions is no.