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78 Mont. L. Rev. 1 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/montlr78 and id is 1 raw text is: FOREWORD TWO STEPS FORWARD Lucy France* I. INTRODUCTION The editors of the Montana Law Review and the organizers of the 2016 Browning Symposium: Sexual Assault on Campus: Conflicts Between Campus and Courts, are to be commended. They have identified an issue of national significance which recently has had a major impact on the local community. For the past six years, barely a month has passed without a major news story about sexual assault on college campuses. On the local level, the United States Departments of Education and Justice launched in- vestigations into the handling of sexual assaults by the University of Mon- tana, the University and City Police Departments, and the County Attor- ney.I The topic of sexual assault involving college students made consistent headline news in the local media between December 2011 through May 2015. Much to the chagrin of many who recognize that the town of Mis- soula is not unusual with regard to the occurrence of sexual assault, a na- tional author wrote a book about the subject and titled it Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town.2 On the national level, since 2011, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has investigated 369 colleges and universities for their handling of sexual * General Counsel, University of Montana. 1. Michael Cotter, 2016 James R. Browning Keynote (Sept. 30, 2016), in 78 MONT. L. REV. 9 (2017). 2. JON KRAKAUER, MISSOULA: RAPE AND THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN A COLLEGE TOWN (2015). The book cover also featured the University's beloved Main Hall.

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