The Columbia case is not much different from the others.

The New Yorker reports.

College Students Go to Court Over Sexual Assault

More than twenty-five years ago, alleged rapists’ names were scrawled in bathroom stalls at Brown University. These signs of outrage accompanied campus activists’ demands to improve sexual-offense policies and training for male students. Change was slow, but five years ago the Obama Administration began to take an active role in combatting campus sexual violence. The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights announced that Title IX’s ban on sex discrimination in education means that schools that receive federal funding (practically all colleges, universities, and school districts) must have effective policies and procedures for resolving sexual-violence complaints.

In 2014, O.C.R. posted a list of higher-education institutions that were under federal investigation for possible violations of Title IX in their handling of sexual violence and sexual harassment. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, that list (which included Harvard Law School, where I teach) has grown in the past two years, from fifty-five schools to almost two hundred and thirty, public and private, large and small, from all regions of the country.