By Grace Rubenstein, KQED News Fix
UC Berkeley students have provoked policy reforms and sparked a federal investigation into their university’s handling of sexual assault cases on campus — and they are still pressing for further change.
They are part of a growing movement of students at universities across the country, and they are getting support from Congress and the White House to change discipline practices that they say gloss over allegations, re-traumatize victims and heavily favor the rights of the accused.
“I think that Cal’s been responding to sexual assault and to sexual assault survivors in a very deliberately indifferent way, honestly, for decades,” said Diva Kass, one of 31 current and former Cal students who filed a federal complaint against the school in February.
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