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Originally Posted by florentinopeces
Universities are like smaller versions of the Catholic church. They try to handle everything in house to avoid bad press and because they think they know better about most everything than the unwashed masses do.
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Part of the problem is universities receiving federal funding (ie most of them) have been explicitly told to handle sexual harassments in house as part of Title IX, else they'll risk having funds. Somewhere along the lines rape = sexual harassment happened, and here we are.
Also, I'm unsure it's ethical to report a crime on someone else's behalf if they explicitly don't want to themselves. By and large, these are adults.