Mencoff Hall at Brown University
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The female student, who drank an alcoholic punch served at a party at Sears House on Oct. 17, tested positive for GHB, the school announced in a campus-wide email on Nov. 8.
"GHB is a colorless, ordorless drug that can be hard to detect in a drink," reads the note, "but has a strong sedative effect that is incapacitating."
A second student's test results are currently pending, according to the Providence Journal .
Brown has suspended the frat that hosted the event.
Even more disturbing, one of the students said she was sexually assaulted the night she received the drug, the Brown Daily Herald reports.
Since the night of the party, the university has kept students up-to-date on the investigation via email. Brown also arranged a sexual assault forum and has plans for two more this week.
"I think what we're seeing at Brown is really what the theme has been lately with campuses: Balancing transparency along with protecting victims' rights," Allison Kiss, Executive Director of The Clery Center for Security on Campus, told CBS News.
She added: "The idea is to fundamentally shift the way we think about sexual assault."
Brown is one of 85 schools under investigation for its handling of sexual assault cases.
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