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Brown University President Christina H. Paxson on Saturday released a statement pledging that the university was committed to preventing sexual assaults of students and punishing any who commit sexual assault. She also said that the university was reviewing its policies. "We are committed to taking aggressive steps to ensure that our campus is safe for everyone and as part of that, policies and procedures designed to keep our campus safe must be open to continuous review," Paxson wrote. "Such a review was already planned for the coming academic year. We are accelerating that review and it will include significant input from students."
The letter came amid widespread criticism of the university for suspending but not expelling a student found guilty of sexual misconduct. The story has led to campus protest and social media groups accusing Brown of, in effect, going easy on a rapist. The accused student, who had been planning to return to Brown and how has insisted that the sexual incident involved was consensual, announced Saturday that he does not plan to return to the university.
