“On campuses throughout the country, I’ve seen firsthand how colleges and universities are wrongfully implementing their own kangaroo courts to adjudicate accusations of sexual misconduct and destroying the lives of wrongfully accused male students,” Miltenberg said. “Title IX was meant to be a tool for fairness, not a means for colleges and universities to micromanage…
Read moreCampus Rape Policies Get a New Look as the Accused Get DeVos’s Ear
It’s time to get rid of that ridiculous Title IX nonsense that Obama implemented in 2011. That Dear Colleague guidance that changed the goal posts and allowed colleges the ability to set up kangaroo courts to deal with alleged CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR, has to be changed. It just has to. The slogans that came from this…
Read moreThe “Dear Colleague” Letter and the inevitable backlash
An excerpt from THIS article: As colleges face increasing pressure to aggressively investigate reports of sex assaults, some critics say the rights of the accused are being trampled. Now they want federal guidance on the issue to be tossed out. Their target: a “Dear Colleague Letter” issued by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of…
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FIRE and SPLC File ‘Amici’ Brief for Kansas Student Expelled for Tweets
Last Monday, FIRE and the Student Press Law Center (SPLC) jointly applied for permission to file an amici curiae (friends-of-the-court) brief with the Kansas Court of Appeals in Yeasin v. University of Kansas. The brief argues that public universities cannot sacrifice the First Amendment rights of students in seeking to comply with Title IX anti-discrimination…
Read moreCan she consent to sex after drinking?
Can a woman consent to sex when she’s been drinking? Universities have decided that the answer is no. “We heard that students don’t understand that it is illegal to have sex with someone who is drunk because they can’t give consent,” says the Saint Mary’s task force report. Although that sentence is crafted to…
Read moreTitle IX, the All-Purpose Leftist Excuse because It allows persecution of anyone who contravenes feminist doctrine.
An Excerpt from this article: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/419344/title-ix-all-purpose-leftist-excuse-david-french If you are a dissenting professor or a male student in modern American higher education, there is a chance that you’ll be subjected to legal proceedings so bizarre, so opaque, and so unfair that you won’t believe they could happen in the United States of America. On the basis of…
Read moreThe Rise of the Weak-Kneed Feminists
From this article: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/02/05/the_rise_of_the_weak-kneed_feminists.html Want to score an invite to the State of the Union address? One way to do so, it turns out, is to turn a rape accusation into a contemporary art project. Imagine the following scenario: You’re a college student, and you believe you have been raped by a former friend. You…
Read moreThe Accused
Jason — until recently a student at an Ivy League school under Title IX investigation that has faced intense public criticism for the way it handles sexual assault cases — met Vanessa for the first time late at night at his fraternity house last March. Jason was drunk and doesn’t remember much, but he remembers…
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