Report: WH Officials Won’t Visit Colleges Not Properly Addressing Sexual Assault

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President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, among other top officials in the administration, won’t visit college campuses they think haven’t taken sexual assault seriously, The Washington Post reported Sunday.

The Post, citing “White House officials” reported that the president and vice president along with their wives and members of the cabinet won’t visit higher ed institutions where they believe college administrators have not seriously addressed sexual assault on their campuses and punished the perpetrators.

Biden has spearheaded the issue of addressing sexual assault for the Obama administration, visiting college campuses and advocating for greater awareness of the topic alongside celebrities.

Biden told the Post that he would like to see the government “take away their money” if institutions failed to properly address sexual assault cases.

Last month, the vice president responded to a high-profile case in which a man, Brock Turner, was sentenced to six months and convicted of three counts of sexual assault. The woman who was attacked, wrote an open letter to Turner detailing her pain throughout the ordeal. Biden responded to the woman, telling her in his own open letter published online, that she would “save lives.”

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