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73 Rutgers Univ. L. Rev. Commentaries 119 (2021)

handle is hein.journals/rgsusty73 and id is 1 raw text is: RUTGERS UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW COMMENTARIEs SPRING 2021 SAS PA: THE KEY TO HANDLING SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CAMPUS IN NEW JERSEY Kelly L. McNaughton* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. IN TR O D U C TIO N ................................................................................... 1 19 II. GENERAL BACKGROUND .................................................................... 121 A . Sexual Assault on Campus.......................................................121 B. Title IX Background .................................................................122 III. SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVIVOR PROTECTION ACT ................................ 123 IV. WHY SASPA SHOULD BE UTILIZED BY VICTIMS OF ACQUAINTANCE SEXUAL ASSAULT ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES ............. 125 A . N o C onflict of In terest...............................................................126 B . E fficien cy ...................................................................................12 7 C. Strong Remedy ..........................................................................128 V. ENFORCEMENT ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES .......................................... 129 A . E xten t of C overag e ....................................................................129 B. Right to an Education ..............................................................130 VI. CONCLUSION ..................................................................................... 132 I. INTRODUCTION On-campus sexual assault is a crisis affecting men and women all over the country.1 Under Title IX of the Civil Rights Act,2 all public institutions are legally required to respond [to] and remedy hostile educational environments and [the] failure to do so is a violation that means a school could risk losing its federal funding.3 Title IX proceedings, however, can potentially lead to inefficient decision-making, and the remedies may vary dramatically, leaving survivors * J.D. Candidate, Rutgers Law School, May 2021. I would like to thank my faculty advisor Professor Penny Venetis for her guidance and my family for their unwavering support. 1. See Campus Sexual Violence: Statistics, RAINN, https://www.rainn.org/statistics/ campus-sexual-violence (last visited Jan. 14, 2020). 2. Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. §§ 1681-1688 (2012). 3. Title IX, KNOW YOUR TITLE IX, https://www.knowyourix.org/college-resources/title- ix/ (last visited Jan. 14, 2020). 119

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