{"id":5572,"date":"2021-11-10T05:21:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T10:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5572"},"modified":"2021-11-10T05:21:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T10:21:19","slug":"senators-call-for-federal-investigation-into-liberty-universitys-handling-of-sexual-assaults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5572","title":{"rendered":"Senators Call for Federal Investigation Into Liberty University\u2019s Handling of Sexual Assaults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citing possible violations of federal law, three senators, including the two from Virginia, are pressing the U.S. Department of Education to investigate Liberty University&rsquo;s handling of sexual assault claims.<\/p>\n<p>Liberty&rsquo;s board also voted Friday to open an &ldquo;independent and comprehensive review&rdquo; of the school office tasked with handling discrimination and abuse.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FY7A6tcyx3Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/senators-call-for-federal-investigation-into-liberty-universitys-handling-of-sexual-assaults-school-promises-independent-probe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citing possible violations of federal law, three senators, including the two from Virginia, are pressing the U.S. Department of Education to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5572\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senators Call for Federal Investigation Into Liberty University\u2019s Handling of Sexual Assaults<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-5572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-senators-call-for-federal-investigation-into-liberty-universitys-handling-of-sexual-assaults","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1rS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5573,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions\/5573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}