She said in an email that Brown has taken a"strategic and sustained approach" to confronting sexual misconduct on campus, including recommendations from the university's sexual assault task force released in 2015.
They say in their suit that Brown's poor response to sexual misconduct allegations violates numerous provisions of Title IX, the federal law barring gender-based discrimination, resulting in negligence, breach of contract, and"intentional infliction of emotional distress." Evans said the women want a court order compelling the university to comply with federal Title IX requirements, as well as any damages allowable under law.
But the problems at the university stretch back to 1985, she said, when survivors began a campaign of writing the names of their perpetrators on the library bathroom walls, she said. In March, the University of Southern California agreed to an $852 million settlement with more than 700 women who have accused the college's longtime campus gynecologist of sexual abuse.