TITLE IX Administrator Exposes Treatment of Accused Males. ‘Act Biased-Just Don’t Show it’
Helen Evans* wrote a letter to a fictional “colleague” just starting work overseeing Title IX sexual-assault investigations. Evan’s letter reinforces the worst fears of accused students, due-process advocates and writers who focus on the Star Chambers rampant in Title IX proceedings. Evans goes on to repeatedly and bizarrely suggest that every accused student had it coming to them. Evans doesn’t even realize her implicit bias against accused students. They cause “harm” whether or not that was intended. They are reducible to “toxic masculinity” or “inept adolescents.” Their accusers are invariably “survivors,” even when facts prove them wrong or reveal their own wrongdoing. Evans all but tells her junior colleague to proceed as if the accused student is responsible for one or more violations, but just not say so out loud…Every lawyer representing an accused student should point to this essay when challenging a school’s action against their clients.
thecollegefix.com By Greg Piper
