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And it is even more damning that the findings against Baylor came from Pepper Hamilton, the law firm that universities and colleges go to to whitewash their failings to keep women safe from assault on their campuses:
Rape Victims Don't Trust The Fixers Colleges Hire To Help Them
In a 2013 profile in The American Lawyer, Gina Smith and Leslie Gomez of Pepper Hamilton "were called 'part of the scandal cleanup crew' for (their) most 'high-profile engagements,' including Occidental College, Amherst College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of California at Berkeley, all schools currently under investigation by the United States Department of Education for allegedly violating federal law regarding on-campus sexual assault.
"But while college presidents love Smith and Gomez, many of the women who forced their universities to hire consultants in the first place loathe them. Complainants across the country told BuzzFeed that they believed their institutions were paying Smith and Gomez to clean up messes by paying lip service to federal compliance. Although some students and faculty members praised their work, others said the retention of Smith and Gomez — who acknowledged that they’ve never read a student complaint — encourage their schools to crack down on activists instead of rapists and to adopt boilerplate policies instead of calling out inept administrators."
And that was what happened at Occidental College, which was prominently featured in the documentary on campus rape and sexual assault, "The Hunting Ground."
So for Pepper Hamilton to have been so scathing in their report on Baylor, it means that the situation was probably much worse than what has come out so far.
Rape Victims Don't Trust The Fixers Colleges Hire To Help Them
In a 2013 profile in The American Lawyer, Gina Smith and Leslie Gomez of Pepper Hamilton "were called 'part of the scandal cleanup crew' for (their) most 'high-profile engagements,' including Occidental College, Amherst College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of California at Berkeley, all schools currently under investigation by the United States Department of Education for allegedly violating federal law regarding on-campus sexual assault.
"But while college presidents love Smith and Gomez, many of the women who forced their universities to hire consultants in the first place loathe them. Complainants across the country told BuzzFeed that they believed their institutions were paying Smith and Gomez to clean up messes by paying lip service to federal compliance. Although some students and faculty members praised their work, others said the retention of Smith and Gomez — who acknowledged that they’ve never read a student complaint — encourage their schools to crack down on activists instead of rapists and to adopt boilerplate policies instead of calling out inept administrators."
And that was what happened at Occidental College, which was prominently featured in the documentary on campus rape and sexual assault, "The Hunting Ground."
So for Pepper Hamilton to have been so scathing in their report on Baylor, it means that the situation was probably much worse than what has come out so far.
