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Prentice emotionally recounted Adam's story at a March 5 Senate Education Committee hearing on the Accuracy in Campus Crime Reporting Act (ACCRA), a bill that could substantially change the way college and universities handle crimes committed on their watch...
...after yielding to pressure from lobbyists--including those representing Harvard's interests--the bill's authors gutted many of ACCRA's most controversial provisions from both the House and Senate...
...late March, the Senate Education Committee released a significantly watered-down version of ACCRA. A similar version was overwhelmingly passed by the House last Wednesday as a part of this year's Higher Education Act. After a conference committee irons out details, the bill is expected to pass Congress with a veto-proof majority...
...major thrust of ACCRA--fundamental reform of campus disciplinary procedures, like Harvard's Administrative Board--will not likely be debated in Congress until next spring...
...ACCRA would also require all college administrators to report every crime they learn of, closing a loophole that now allows crimes reported to some officials to go unreported to law enforcement--and thus avoid inclusion in a college's annual crime statistics...