BU needs to make a constant commitment to the cause, actively work to ensure students’ safety, dismantle the prevalent rape culture on its campus and establish trust so students will be willing to speak up and report assailants in the first place. It will never be as easy as one quick, overnight policy change.

More than 50 Boston University students and faculty and local Boston residents rallied at Marsh Plaza on a rainy Wednesday afternoon to protest the neo-Nazi posters and placards recently placed around...