A case that helped jump-start a wave of campus sexual assault activism across America has ended in a big win for the complainants. Last week the Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Education released its findings on the federal complaint four students and an administrator filed against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) in January 2013. The office concluded that the school had failed to establish “grievance procedures that provide for the prompt and equitable resolution of student, employee, and third-party complaints” of sex discrimination, including sexual misconduct. While the university has not admitted wrongdoing, it has agreed to review its procedures and to submit to federal monitoring.
Among those celebrating this outcome was former UNC student Andrea Pino, the co-founder of the national organization End Rape on Campus and the best-known of the five women behind the complaint. “I was 20 years old taking on a 200-year-old university and today I can say that I won,” Pino told ABC11.
But that victory comes with an asterisk, writes Cathy Young.
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