College students, advocates react to DeVos’ new guidelines for college sex assault cases

AUSTIN (KXAN) — After months of discussions, Education Secretary Betsy De Vos released new guidelines Friday for how schools should handle sexual assault allegations on their campuses. Sexual assault victim advocates say the changes will give greater protections to the accused, not the victim.
These temporary policies allow colleges to increase the amount of evidence needed to convict students of sexual assault or rape. This means victims will have face a larger burden in proving a student