There's no apparent pattern for sexual-misconduct punishment at Yale, based on public reports reviewed by Business Insider.

More than 60 formal sexual-assault complaints have gone through Yale's UWC process since 2011. When the school finds sufficient evidence of nonconsensual sex, consequences run the gamut.

Business Insider found 15 cases where Yale issued a finding of "penetration without consent," "nonconsensual sex," or "intercourse without consent." Yale has issued five expulsions. The 10 other instances received suspension, probation, or a written reprimand.

Our decision makers work hard and conscientiously to calibrate discipline appropriate for each case, taking into account all relevant factors, while upholding the principle that these are educational processes.

Even to Luke's family, the lighter punishment doesn't match the harsh ruling.

The lack of any apparent pattern to the decisions seems to reveal that the people who sit on the committee that issues sexual-misconduct rulings don't seem to know how and when to hand down punishment.

"If there is a barometer, I don't know it and nobody else does unless you're on that committee," Lindsey Hogg, a 2017 Yale College graduate who sat on the Title IX Advisory Board, told Business Insider. "Sometimes it seems like people will have similar amounts of evidence or similar stories, and one person might get expelled and one person won't. I really don't know."

Read the full article on sexual assault by Abby Jackson at Business Insider