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Tweets show what hinders reports of sexual assault and harassment on campus – and why the new federal Title IX rules may be a step back

  • Written by Jason Whiting, Professor of Family Therapy, Brigham Young University
imageDefinition of harassment is now more narrow.KLH49/GettyImages

“The nurse at the clinic said, ‘he did not mean it.’ He drugged my drink. How could he not ‘mean it?’ My grades plummeted. I quit college. I lost my dignity. I lost me.”

That statement is just one among the thousands of tweets with the hashtag #WhyIDidnt...

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