Growing calls for reform on college campuses

There are growing calls for reform on college campuses as universities across the country struggle with their handling of sexual assault cases. The issue has been thrust back into the national spotlight following high-profile allegations, including an ongoing lawsuit involving Cornell. Fox News' Dave Kinchin spoke with a survivor advocate about what needs to change. He joins us live from Midtown Detroit with more. Dave? Yeah, you know, more and more college campuses and universities are under intense pressure to reform the way they're handling sexual assault, sexual abuse cases. Let's go to video right now because obviously the Cornell case has really brought all of this into the forefront. The conversation gaining national momentum after a former Cornell student known as Jane Doe filed a civil lawsuit against seven former Kappa Phi fraternity members alleging she was drugged and gang raped at a fraternity event. The state of New York has since launched a formal investigation. Now campuses across Michigan and the entire country are re-examining safety protocols. National data shows more than 80 percent of major four-year colleges report at least two sexual assaults a year, though experts warn other many figures are actually much higher as cases go underreported because 80 percent of survivors never report them out of fear of social stigma or retaliation. With mounting demand for Title IX reform, we asked survivor advocate JoJo discuss what immediate steps students and families should take. As an advocate and as a non-profit, my first suggestion to any survivor is reach out to an advocate. Before you reach out to the sexual assault hotline, before you reach out to the nurses on campus and any of those types of resources or the police find yourself an advocate that you trust and if I was a person on college right now I would be looking for those resources those safe people that I can first report that to that can walk alongside of me if and when this happens to then go with me to report that whether that's a safe student that's running a non-profit but there's resources like RAINN there's the sexual assault hotline. There's the SANE, which is the sexual assault nurses that handle that on campus. And there are several groups within campuses that you can go to, but I think your first stop should be to some type of an advocate so they can walk alongside you because this isn't easy. Well, meantime, there are many folks who say that there should be, in fact, college campuses not investigating these cases, not having administrators do the investigation, but instead have local law enforcement agencies do the investigations as well to get to the bottom of these cases. Now, tonight on The Edge, we're going to be taking a closer look at Greek life and whether that should be reformed as well. Reporting live in Detroit, Dave Kinchin, Fox 2 News. And Dave, I know you got a little commotion behind you, but talk a little bit about this conversation as we keep it in the headlines, likely making victims feel maybe more comfortable coming forward. Yeah, I think that's really the key thing is more conversation, more discussion, more advocates, as JoJo Dry said. And universities are trying to do more, provide more resources. We saw that especially in Michigan, all of the schools after the Larry Nassar case at Michigan State. But some critics say that universities have gotten a little lax on all of this since then. So they want to see more resources, more tighter prompt investigations and bringing law enforcement in earlier too. All right we'll see you at 11 Dave thank you.