The Department of Education has been inundated with approximately 100,000 public comments on its proposed new rules for how campuses handle cases of sexual assault. Secretary Betsy DeVos opened the public comment period two months ago, after unveiling her plan to replace Obama-era rules with regulations that, she says, would better protect the accused. The window for comments closes Wednesday at midnight. Many who have weighed in praise the new rules for " restoring sanity " and fairness to the process but many more are critical. Those comments range from short expletives and insults aimed at DeVos, to personal and sometimes graphic accounts of sexual assaults, and pleas not to return to the bad ol' days, when victims were not believed and incidents were swept under the rug . The deluge of comments comes as survivor advocates have been mobilizing their troops on social media, at comment-writing pizza parties, and through crash courses in commenting on college campuses. At a recent
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