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Before Cornell turmoil, successive US administrations seesawed in attitudes towards campus assaults

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Democratic and Republican administrations have taken different tacks in addressing campus sexual assault Amid renewed concerns about sexual assault on US college campuses following allegations that a student was gang-raped at a Cornell University fraternity, the Trump administration last week formally reversed measures from recent Democratic presidents concerning how schools should investigate such claims.

A federal judge had already in January 2025 struck down Biden-era regulations that expanded Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in education. The Democratic president tried to undo regulations established during Trump’s first term that, contrary to guidance from the Obama administration , required schools to adjudicate sexual misconduct claims through live hearings .

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