The universities have been forced by the Department of Education (OCR) to set up a parallel system of criminal justice inside the universities themselves. This means investigating and coming to a judgment and issuing sanctions regarding very complicated and gray-area situations involving young people and sex and usually alcohol in private situations. Even qualified professional investigators and trained lawyers and experienced judges have difficulty with these kinds of cases. It is not hard to understand why a committee of students and university faculty and staff might have a little trouble, too. The universities of course were not built to offer parallel criminal justice systems, and they (not just the UO) are manifestly ill-suited to institute and run such systems. This is why we are seeing so many lawsuits in so many universities. One can sympathize with and support the goals of the DOE in taking sexual assault seriously without agreeing with the means it has chosen.