Why are colleges on the hook for sexual assaults?

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If you regularly follow this blog, you know that this question has been deeply troubling me.  Perhaps it has troubled you too.  Here is one author's explanation --- Title IX was a pebble in our pond that has created unanticipated ripples (her metaphor):
http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Colleges-Are-on-the-Hook/146943/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

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