Schools should not punish a victim of sexual abuse if she broke rules on drugs or alcohol use, the guidelines say. Getty Images hide caption
Seeking Justice For Campus Rapes One out of 5 women will be sexually assaulted during her college years. Despite federal laws created to protect students, colleges and universities have failed to protect women from this epidemic of sexual assault. NPR News Investigations and the Center for Public Integrity teamed up to examine this ongoing problem on college campuses.
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Seeking Justice For Campus Rapes
NPR and the Center for Public Integrity examine colleges' failure to protect women from campus rape.
There's still debate about whether men who commit sexual assault on college campuses are predators, or men who got drunk and made a mistake. Getty Images hide caption
When Margaux learned that the college ruling meant she'd still have to attend university with her assailant, she dropped out of school. Beth Rooney/Aurora for NPR hide caption
Margaux's parents were shocked at how few options there were for their daughter to prosecute the man who sexually assaulted her. Joseph Shapiro/NPR hide caption
Laura Dunn in 2003, a year before the incident that changed her life. Courtesy Laura Dunn hide caption