Federal education officials have launched an investigation into how the University of Mary Washington handled threats made against feminist students on the messaging app Yik Yak. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights is probing whether the university administration subjected students to a hostile environment by failing to properly respond to sexual harassment on social media, according to a letter provided Wednesday by an attorney for the students. Members of the Feminists United group on the Fredericksburg campus say they faced hundreds of anonymous harassing messages, including rape threats, after protesting a lewd chant by the rugby team and questioning whether Greek life exacerbates sexual assaults.

October 21, 2015 ・ From The Washington Post