Sexual Assault on Campus Shrouded in Secrecy
The Center for Public Integrity:
Three hours into deliberations by the University of Virginia's Sexual Assault Board, UVA junior Kathryn Russell sat with her mother in a closet-like room in sprawling Peabody Hall. Down the corridor, two professors and two students were deciding her fate. Russell was replaying in her mind, endlessly, details of her allegations of rape when, she remembers, Shamim Sisson, the board chair, stepped into the room and delivered the order: You can't talk about the verdict to anyone. (read the article>)