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'No university support after rape'

New guidelines now urge universities to take a zero-tolerance approach to sexual violence and harassment, with better support for students.
The report, by a Universities UK taskforce, calls for universities to set out clearly the way they expect students to behave.
The programme discussed the issue with a panel of women. Alice Irving - who was raped as a student and has waived her right to anonymity - said the police and her university did not take her complaint seriously enough: "It's too uncomfortable to recognise that something that's such common practice - picking someone up drunk and having sex with them - might sometimes [be], and often is, rape. I think there's a big cultural denial," she said.

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