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'Consequences for assailants are "not significant or harsh enough to act as a deterrent," [Das] Williams [link added] said, and light penalties are undermining students' trust in their schools to handle cases of sexual violence.
Community colleges should also be able to expel students from the entire system, like UC or CSU, he added, so that they can't just transfer to another campus.
Punishment has been the biggest point of contention surrounding campus sexual violence. While victims have pushed for stronger responses from universities, a growing opposition has countered that expelling students could ruin the rest of their lives.
Williams acknowledged that this last proposal could be controversial, but said it provides an opportunity for justice that victims do not always get.
"Rape is a very difficult thing to prosecute," he said. With their lower "preponderance of evidence" standards, "there is a real role that schools can play that law enforcement can't" in these incidents.'
