I was just reading Naomi Wolf's brilliant piece at the Huffington Post on the persecution/prosecution of the wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, based on allegations of . She asserts: "men are pretty much never treated the way Assange is being treated in the face of charges." Her main premise was that unfortunately, most alleged rapists do not face such severe handling: solitary confinement in prison before even being questioned. Assange is being targeted because he hurt powerful men, not because he allegedly assaulted a woman. Then I read about a case in Texas where a high school cheerleader was forced to cheer for her rapist. What messages are schools sending when they hide behind criminal investigations and shirk their responsibilities to their students?

As Ms. Murphy points out: "Didn't supervisors know federal law forbids schools from delaying discipline just because a criminal case is pending?" There is a lot of misinformation out there about the reach and impact of Title IX since most people link it only to addressing financial disparities between boys' and girls' sports in publicly-funded schools. However, Title IX is actually about sex equity of any kind. The principal acted wrongly in this case, and by blogging about it here I'm hoping to help spread the word to prevent other students from experiencing additional victimization at the hands of the school administrators after being sexually assaulted by a classmate. My next post will address another Title IX issue for schools: how forms of homophobic harassment are actually included under Title IX. Stay tuned...