From: To: [exer Subject: RE: volaton report Date “Thursday, February 13, 2014 4:08:00 PM wa First my apologies if this is your first acknowledgment from our office. However, | do want to acknowledge receipt of your e-mail and to thank you for your efforts to keep America’s campuses safe, We definitely can check to see if the college that you are referring to has adequate sexual assault policies in place and can review their current Annual Security Report. You mention that the statue of limitations have expired. Can you provide information as to the time your were assaulted, the time you reported it to a Campus Security Authority ( the woman you reference below)and ifit was reported to campus security since you stated that it knew of a history of the respondent. If you can provide this information, | can start to see if the college has polices in place. You may contact, me at my direct e-mail or phone number in the body of my signature below. ‘Again, thank you for your efforts to change the culture and policies to keep others safe at this college. Respectfully, Keith Nine Campus Crime Compliance Specialist Clery Act Compliance Division United States Department of Education UCP-71G4 Washington, DC 20202 202-377-4609 keith,nin v To: Clery Subject: violation report | was assaulted at college by | When | reported it, they failed to notify the police, and told me if | told anyone - including my parents! - they would make sure | didn't graduate. | pushed anyways, and everyone - including lawyers, police, and school personnel who got involved either lost their jobs who contacted me to say they couldn't help me after all - they'd been threatened. So | tried to reopen it at graduation. The university first asked why | hadn't come forward at the time of the incident. | replied that | had and they had threatened me.evey [exer | was speaking with (exe) on campus), first denied saying such a thing, than admitted that was their policy and that she ‘probably’ had threatened me. Things got dragged out until it was past the statute of limitations, then | was told it was too late to do any! Meanwhile, | Know | am not the first nor the last{ attacked. was frequently granted free access to the dorms - even my dorm - even I reported it. The[®) [7 pdmitted he had a history. [¢) |did not deny assaulting me, and in fact admitted it proudly. | was treated like a criminal. [> and suffered no reprecussions at all. Is there anything that can be done about it at this late date? We are long past the statute of limitations, but at the very least, the university should change their policies to support survivors, not make things worse.a oe Tot Subject: Re: violation report Date “Thursday, February 13, 2014 10:26:51 PM Actually, this is the first response I've received, so thanks. | had assumed by this point that | wouldn't hear anything. The incident occurred at the University of Chicago, inl [exe lassaulted me. | reported it that night to the Campus Police, who brought along someone from admin to deal with it. Although we had met at a student-faculty dinner at my dorm, and | told the police that he had said he would come back to my dorm to visit me, they would not ban him from that dorm even for the length of their investigation, despite my request. Instead, the admin waited until the police had left to tell me that | was required to attend counseling, but that if | talked to anyone else or told anyone about this, | would not be allowed to graduate. Undaunted, | contacted a lawyer, and a - most of the lawyers refused to touch my case once they heard the university was involved. The[PX@____] was happy to help and provide resources, but called me back after a week to say they were sorry but could not provide me with any assistance after all. The one lawyer who agreed to take the case also backed out. When | called the city police to see what the status of my case was, | found out that despite the legal requirement to do so, the university had not reported the incident to the Chicago police and kept it internal. So I went to the Chicago police to file a report. The university found out and reminded me of their threats and that they were quite serious. The Chicago police then dropped their investigation. The mandatory counseling | was provided spent all her time trying to convince me | did drugs or was an alcoholic, though | neither drank nor did any drugs. She insisted | must just be lying about th; he university did their own internal investigation in which the ind | bot! to write up our version of events. | had to write first and was given it to read before he wrote his report. | had to petition to see his report, and was only allowed access to it in front of a panel of administrators who watched me closely the whole time | read it. | was not allowed to photocopy it or take photos of it or otherwiserecord it. Interestingly, the port actually bragged about the assault and went into even tail than | had. The ONLY point of dispute in his report was his incensed argument that | had gotter (wrong in my report. Then a new Dean was hired, a woman, full of promises about transparency in the administration, etc etc. The university was thrilled to have her. | went to her during her first week about my case. She was horrified and promised to look into it and find justice. She was fired and off campus within the week. | waited until shortly before my graduation" to try to reopen the case. Again, the police were wary of reopening it, the university renewed its threats, told me that since they didn't of it happening to anyone else it wasn't a concern. | said I'd SEEN|s)_|with another young girl in an inappropriate embrace in a[(®)(@) and that the campus police and told me off the record that they had handled a number of complaints about him - all of which were suppressed by the university. The university's reply to that was, "Well, we don't want to start a witch hunt..." 212! Finally, | gave up and dropped the case, though | have always regretted it, especially because he was free to attack other girls again and again because | couldn't stop him. Please let me know what other information you need or if you have any questions. Thank you. ener Subject: RE: volation report Ms, (CIE First my apologies if this is your first acknowledgment from our office. However, | do wantto acknowledge receipt of your e-mail and to thank you for your efforts to keep America’s campuses safe. italy can check to see if the college that you are referring to has adequate policies in place and can review their current Annual Security Report. You mention statue of limitations have expired. Can you provide information as to the time your were assaulted, the time you reported it to a Campus Security Authority ( the woman you reference below)and if it was reported to campus security since you stated that it knew of a history of the respondent. If you can provide this information, I can start to see if the college has polices in place. You may contact me at my direct e-mail or phone number in the body of my signature below. ‘Again, thank you for your efforts to change the culture and policies to keep others safe at this college. 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