I actually think this should not be a school's responsibility. And to be clear, a mandate putting this independent party on a university's payroll would make it that school's responsibility. Just like public high schools have Student Resource Officers, who are sworn law enforcement officers that are familiar with their individual schools, I think having a similar contact at universities that receive government funding would be better. They would have to be officers with Special Victims training. That way, law enforcement and the student body are the primary concerns, and not school politics. This also demonstrates that sexual assault is taken seriously, because a report to the SRO would be a report to a legal officer of the law. No administrative bureaucracy.

I will never understand why sexual assault on campus is investigated by campus police and not local law enforcement. They don't need an advocate, they need to know the police will handle the situation and internal school politics won't play a factor in prosecuting the offender.

That should be the work of our justice system.