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Stanford Tops List of Colleges Facing Federal Probes into Sexual Violence

HeadlineJun 10, 2016

NPR is reporting the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights is now investigating five sexual violence cases at Stanford University—that’s more than any other school in the country. The five do not include the 2015 rape committed by star Stanford swimmer Brock Turner, which has made headlines this month after a judge sentenced him to just six months in jail for raping an unconscious woman on campus.

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