Secretive justice: how Ga. colleges handle rape on campus

“What you did to me was date rape. I told you no, multiple times. You went for it anyway.”

That’s how an Emory University graduate student learned last year that he was being accused of rape after what he believed was consensual sex with a classmate.

What followed was a four-month march through Emory’s secret process for judging sexual misconduct allegations.

“I was terrified,” the student told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Learn how sexual assault allegations are handled at Georgia’s largest universities.

Explore the AJC’s interactive map of where sexual assaults occur on each campus.

And find out what happened to the Emory student in an exclusive investigation into the secretive world of campus tribunals.

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