According to the National Sexual Violence Research Center, one in five women and one in 16 men are sexually assaulted in some way during college.
In addition, an estimated 90 percent of all sexual assaults against women in college go unreported.
If this sounds like a monumental problem, that’s because it is. The odds of college students suffering from either rape, domestic abuse, stalking or sexual harassment before leaving their collegiate experiences are horrifically high.
Former President Barack Obama attempted to tackle this issue head-on in his controversial 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter, which laid out guidelines for campuses to combat sexual assault. Many of the programs pushed by Obama, like Haven Sexual Assault training, are at Mississippi State University.
While successful at MSU, the guidelines set by the Obama Administration were not always followed as logically on other campuses.
Janet Halley, a Harvard-educated feminist law expert, describes the mass over-corrections made by terrified college administrators in a letter to the Department of Education.
After all, Obama’s guidelines threatened to remove federal funding if ignored, and many colleges scrambled to meet deadlines by cobbling together new unfair policies.
This leads us to Betsy DeVos, the current secretary of education, and her decision to rescind the Obama-era guidelines.
DeVos asked Congress to make laws changing how campuses deal with sexual assault, calling the former program a failure and an outrage.
The people who used Haven to deal with the unspeakable acts committed against them must be extremely hurt by DeVos’ flippancy. 
Did the Obama-era guidelines always work as they were supposed to? No. There were cases in which a college’s sexual assault policies allowed for unreasonable blame to be thrust onto unsuspecting persons.
Because the guidelines were not entirely dependable, there should be legislation uniformly dealing with sexual assault on every campus in the U.S. This legislation should give fair treatment to both parties involved.
However, the mere idea of a better program does not justify the disparaging and politicizing of a system which helped many receive closure after sexual assault.
If DeVos truly wanted to help, she would have announced plans for legislation to bolster and define Title IX practices in schools countrywide. Instead, like the current administration is known to do, DeVos created a cruel political circus by condemning and nullifying Obama’s program.