Chancellor defends Tennessee against 'false' allegations

The suit filed last month in Nashville states Tennessee's policies made students more vulnerable to sexual assault and says that the school had a "clearly unreasonable response" after incidents that caused the women making complaints to endure additional harassment.

The suit also says Tim Rogers, a former vice chancellor for student life, stepped down in 2013 "in protest over the violation of Title IX and the UT administration's and athletic department's deliberate indifference to the clear and present danger of sexual assaults by UT athletes."

Cheek noted that the university's police department has assigned a special investigator just to handle sexual assaults and that the university has revised and expanded its sexual assault policy and developed sexual assault response protocols.