Universities vow harassment crackdown

MELBOURNE, Australia - Leading universities on Tuesday promised to crack down on sexual harassment after a landmark national survey found half of students were harassed in the past year.

The survey of 31,000 randomly selected students from 39 institutions, released by the Human Right Commission on Tuesday, found that 51 percent of respondents were sexually harassed at least once last year, with half of the incidents taking place in a university setting.

Women and LGBT students were most affected, the survey found.