University of Pennsylvania administrators are worried about some provisions in the federal Campus Accountability and Safety Act, introduced by a bipartisan group of senators in July.
The Daily Pennsylvanian reports that President Amy Gutmann told the paper the legislation has too many regulations:
“There shouldn’t be more regulation than there is known to be effective because if you have too much regulation, you stifle creativity and progress,” Gutmann said. “I think it is yet to be shown whether the new regulations pass that test, or fail that test.”
Provost Vincent Price told the paper the part of the bill mandating an annual sexual-assault survey wasn’t helpful:
“If you take any pressing problem — and sexual violence is fairly considered to be a pressing matter of health — you have to attack it by having systems in place to help people who need help,” Price said.
“Surveys are not the answer,” he added. “Surveys are defective instruments for all kinds of reasons … but my fear is that it just becomes a drumbeat to do certain things, and I don’t know where this would go.”
The American Association of Universities said it’s also talking to the office of lead sponsor Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., about changing the bill so that campuses don’t “focus so much on the reporting that they lose sight of the larger purpose.”
The group said it expects McCaskill to reintroduce a new version of the bill in January.
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