Demonstrators sit outside Strong Hall on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014, to protest Kansas University's handling of sexual assault investigations.

Kansas University sophomore Zoe Fincher speaks with KU Provost Jeff Vitter outside Strong Hall. Fincher helped lead a demonstration raising concerns over KU's policies of handling sexual assault investigations.

About 25 students and others on Tuesday sat down outside the administrative offices of Kansas University to protest what they said was an inadequate response to alleged sexual assaults on campus.

“We don’t think enough has been done,” said Susie McClannahan, a KU senior. “Everyone deserves to feel safe on campus.”

KU is one of 76 schools nationwide under federal investigation regarding whether the schools are properly investigating allegations of rape.

The issue gained further dominance recently after a KU student alleged she was raped and said her assailant was given a light punishment from the school.

Other women have come forward criticizing the administration for not taking the issue of sexual violence on campus seriously enough.

In response, KU Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little has made sexual assault training mandatory for all students, faculty and staff, and has formed a task force to review policies and recommend changes.

Students sitting down with signs in the grass outside Gray-Little’s office at Strong Hall, however, were unimpressed with the chancellor’s efforts.

One of the organizers of the event, Zoe Fincher, a sophomore, and Morgan Smith, a junior, said the mandatory sexual assault training was inadequate. The online training can be “clicked” through quickly and includes a videotaped skit that they said makes light of the idea of providing consent to have sex.

KU Provost Jeff Vitter visited with the demonstrators. He said the university was going to work on the sexual assault training.

“We are going to definitely work on what we have and improve it,” he said.

Connor Chestnut, a sophomore, was one of a handful of males at the demonstration. “We need to come together to fight for this issue,” Chestnut said. He said men need to step forward and tell their male friends not to yell at women on the street or mistreat them in any way.

“It’s not OK to go beyond what someone is comfortable with,” he said.

Many of the protesters were members of September Siblings, a recently formed group that has been at the forefront of raising the issue of sexual violence. Group members said they were inspired by the February Sisters, who advanced women’s rights at KU in 1972.

C.J. Brune and Christine Smith, both members of February Sisters, attended Tuesday’s demonstration. Brune said they wanted to show solidarity with the students and express their disappointment over KU’s handling of the controversy. “We think every human being should be safe on this campus,” Brune said.