University of Minnesota administrators agreed to delay updating the institution’s sexual consent policy just days before they expected to implement it, after regents requested additional time to discuss the change at a meeting last Wednesday.
About a week before the University was poised to approve the new standards — which would require all parties engaged in a sexual act to give affirmative consent beforehand — University President Eric Kaler granted requests to postpone enactment of the revised policy after regents said they wanted more clarity on the change’s legal implications.