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University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst said Wednesday that students misinterpreted her response to their speaking out against sexual assault on campus, The Hartford Courant reported. After seven students filed a Title IX complaint (and subsequent lawsuit) against the university in October, alleging that the university failed to protect them from sexual violence, Herbst said the claims were “astonishingly misguided and demonstrably untrue.” Students held a rally in protest, and state lawmakers called for a hearing on sexual assault on Connecticut campuses (which took place Wednesday afternoon). But on Wednesday Herbst said she was not suggesting the students were lying, but was rather responding to “the broad allegation of institutional indifference.”
