Drawing on several sensationalized 21st century news stories with the above themes, the book describes a culture in which individual university members—students, faculty and staff—and college campuses themselves mirror each other in terms of fear of violation.
As a result of Title IX, American public universities are legally required to maintain campuses which do not discriminate against students on the basis of sex.
This entails that they maintain campuses free of sexual violence—under threat of losing government funding—per the Dear Colleague letter issued by the United States Department of Education to public university administrators on April 4, 2011.
[9][10] In Doyle's account, UC Davis administrator Linda Katehi feared that the demonstration would attract nearby Occupy Oakland protestors from outside the student body.
If the demonstration had been allowed to encamp overnight, Katehi believed that Occupy Oakland protesters might have sex with students, possibly resulting in a sexual assault on campus.