The author makes the point that the investigator was sympathetic, but had to follow policy. It's the policy that is defective: >Melanie also hadn’t been able t

The author makes the point that the investigator was sympathetic, but had to follow policy. It's the policy that is defective: >Melanie also hadn’t been able to locate a current student named Rebecca James in Marta’s department, but she said that the name could always be an alias, and she was still obligated to investigate Marta now that a “credible” accusation had been made. >“Good question,” Melanie responded, her voice bright again. “Because of the funding that we receive through Title IX, we’re required to investigate everything. And with that we want to really run everything to the ground.”