The conversation over sexual assault on campus had grown fiercer but not necessarily more productive, The Chronicle observed in “Arc of Outrage,” one of several intensively reported articles on the subject. The number of colleges under federal investigation had surpassed 100. (For an update, see The Chronicle’s Title IX tracker.) Activists declared the issue a crisis, while a backlash arose dismissing it as a panic. In fact, it had become both, we concluded. “Students and colleges still have to sit down for the long, arduous work of defining and promoting sexual respect,” we wrote. “They haven’t even gotten to the tough part.”
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