Obama targets college sexual assault epidemic

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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, center, meet with, from left, White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Attorney General Eric Holder, and Executive Director of the White House Council on Women and Girls, Tina Tchen, who is also the Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014, to discuss the Council on Women and Girls. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama shone a light Wednesday on a college sexual assault epidemic that is often shrouded in secrecy, with victims fearing stigma, police poorly trained to investigate and universities reluctant to disclose the violence.

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