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EQUAL RIGHTS For College Males. DoED Investigates TIX Claims Against Women’s Programs

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EQUAL RIGHTS For College Males. DoED Investigates TIX Claims Against Women’s Programs

 At home in Turkey, Kursat Pekgoz considered himself a feminist. In the world of American higher education, where he is now pursuing a doctorate in English literature, the 30-year-old activist says it is men who are being treated unfairly. Arguing that campus resource groups for women and women’s studies programs amount to discrimination against men, Pekgoz has filed federal complaints against several universities. The Education Department is taking the complaints seriously. Over the last year, its civil rights division has opened investigations into Yale, Princeton, the University of Southern California and Tulane University to determine whether their women’s programs violate Title IX, a federal law that prohibits sex discrimination at schools that receive federal funding. The department also has received complaints against Georgetown, Northeastern and the University of Pennsylvania. With more women attending and graduating from college than men in America, Pekgoz says women no longer need additional support. The complaints under investigation by the Education Department describe opportunities that appear to exclude men.  The Yale Women Innovators, a weekly event series, is discriminatory, Pekgoz argues, because it says it is open to “all Yale women and non-binary femme students, alumni, faculty staff, and community members.” At Princeton, he said in another complaint, the university treats male students unfairly by offering a course on defending against sexual assault only to women. “Everything should be available on a gender-neutral basis,” Pekgoz said. The Education Department is also looking into whether the Cagney and Lacey Fellowship at the University of Southern California shows prejudice against male applicants because it is awarded to “a returning woman. The Education Department said in a statement that it enforces Title IX so that “all students, including men, have equal access to educational opportunity and can go to school without fear of sex discrimination.”

apnews.com By Maria Danilova nytimes

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MOUNTAIN OF EVIDENCE Shows Obama’s DoED Approach to Campus Sex Assault was ‘Widely Criticized’ & ‘Failing’

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MOUNTAIN OF EVIDENCE Shows Obama’s DoED Approach to Campus Sex Assault was ‘Widely Criticized’ & ‘Failing’

Since 2011 approximately 117 federal courts, as well as a number of state courts, have raised concerns about the lack of meaningful procedural protections in campus adjudications. A number of those judges have put their concerns in particularly clear terms… In Oct. 2018 Six Democratic senators wrote U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to ask her to delay proposed DoED’s regulations governing Title IX. The letter asked Secretary DeVos a series of questions, and requested that the Secretary “provide the analysis behind the Department’s determination that the former Title IX guidance was ‘widely criticized’ and a ‘failed system.’” Because FIRE provided input to the Department and because we value transparency, we sent the Senators a letter to emphasize that the input we provided the current administration was consistent with the input we provided the Department during the Obama administration…It is important to demonstrate the magnitude of that evidence for the public record. So here, in longer form, we are posting the evidentiary support for our statement to the Senate Democrats that our “concerns about the erosion of procedural protections have been subsequently echoed by a diverse range of widely respected organizations, individuals, legal scholars- and an increasing number of state and federal courts.” Specifically, here is just a small sample of materials that highlight the shortcomings of the prior approach, showing it was “widely criticized.”

thefire By Tyler Coward

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EDUCATION Dept. Proposes Enhanced Protection For Students Accused Of Sexual Assault

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EDUCATION Dept. Proposes Enhanced Protection For Students Accused Of Sexual Assault

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced sweeping rules on how colleges handle cases of sexual assault and harassment that she says will fix a “failed” and “shameful” system that has been unfair to accused students. In what the administration is calling a “historic process,” the proposed rules aim to significantly enhance legal protections for the accused. Under the new regulations, colleges would only have to investigate the most egregious cases of sexual harassment.  Colleges would only have to investigate accusations that are reported directly to designated administrators. A school would only have to investigate if the alleged victim wants it to. Students also would be guaranteed the right to cross-examine each other. The regulations would bar student-to-student confrontations, requiring instead that questions be asked by a third party, such as the accused student’s attorney. “We expect that the proposed regulations will be a dramatic improvement,” says Samantha Harris, director of policy research at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. She applauds the administration for “recognizing that schools must provide meaningful procedural protections to accused students when adjudicating such serious offenses.” Many colleges welcome the new clarity — so they know their obligations and can limit their risk of ending up under government investigation. The rules do not go into effect until they go through a public comment period, which could be a long process and could result in more changes. Unlike the Obama-era guidelines, when DeVos’ new rules are implemented, they will have the force of law without having been approved by Congress.

npr.org By Tovia Smith

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BELIEVE the Survivor? Here’s 11 Times Black Male Students Were Railroaded by Their College

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BELIEVE the Survivor? Here’s 11 Times Black Male Students Were Railroaded by Their College

 According to the Center for Prosecutor Integrity, a nonprofit group that fights the “over-criminalization” of sex-related activities, there are “parallels between the treatment of Black men accused of rape during the infamous Jim Crow period and the adjudication of sexual assault cases in the current era. The Obama administration in 2011 told universities to implement judicial policies that benefited accusers and stripped away due process rights for the accused. Harvard Law School Prof. Janet Halley said, ‘male students of color are accused and punished at unreasonably high rates.” Journalist Emily Yoffe wrote about the phenomenon of black male students accused by non-black female students. Stating, black men make up only about 6 percent of college undergraduates yet are “vastly overrepresented in the cases I’ve tracked.” Six years’ worth of dismal due process rights for the accused has led to hundreds of young men fighting sexual assault claim allegations in court. Even more concerning, this lack of protection has rendered one group particularly vulnerable — young black men...In 2017 SOS listed 10 lawsuits of college white girls accusing black male students.

thecollegefix By Michael Jones

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MALES BEWARE: Hundreds of Sex Complaints Reported at Cornell, NYU. OR as I Call it: Recruitment of Female Accusers is Rising

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MALES BEWARE: Hundreds of Sex Complaints Reported at Cornell, NYU. OR as I Call it: Recruitment of Female Accusers is Rising

One hundred sexual misconduct complaints were made at New York University in just the first five months of this year, according to a new state report. The complaints put the Manhattan college second in the state behind Cornell University, which had 199 incidents reported from January through May 2018. Columbia University logged 43 complaints. Cornell contends that the high number of complaints was related to better education and prevention programs that increased awareness among students of resources and support services. [SOS contends the high number is due to an expansive and weakened definition of consent sex (hug, fist bump, selfie)  and aggressive recruitment tactics influencing females to believe they’ve been sexually assaulted-when it is their feelings that have been violated only]

nypost By Klein and Balsamini

 

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SETTLEMENT: John Doe Was Set Up. Hamilton College Ignored His Evidence. Days Before Graduating He’s Expelled. Hamilton Settles.

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SETTLEMENT: John Doe Was Set Up. Hamilton College Ignored His Evidence. Days Before Graduating He’s Expelled. Hamilton Settles.

On Sept. 21, 2018, a settlement was reached in the case of John Doe v. Hamilton College. In seeking to resolve the case without a trial, the parties entered into mediation. After a mediation session on June 28, 2018, the College and the plaintiff began to negotiate a settlement. That agreement was finalized in September, and the court dismissed the lawsuit on Sept. 21, 2018. The details of the settlement are confidential and remain under seal. Cases like Doe’s have cropped up across the country in recent years as male students have used Title IX protections to defend themselves against allegations of sexual assault. In September, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that universities must allow students accused of sexual misconduct to directly question their accusers.

spec.hamilton.edu By Caroline Nash You can read John Doe’s Case against Hamilton and Story Here

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COLLEGE ATHLETES BEWARE: Data Shows You are More Likely to be Title IX Accused

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COLLEGE ATHLETES BEWARE: Data Shows You are More Likely to be Title IX Accused

College Athletes in recent years were about three times more likely than other students to be accused of sexual misconduct or domestic violence in complaints made at Power 5 conference schools, according to an analysis by Outside the Lines. That finding is based upon data from Title IX complaints covering allegations of sexual assault, domestic violence, sexual exploitation, sexual coercion, stalking or retaliation collected from 32 Power 5 schools that provided records in response to requests for complaints against athletes over the past six years. A key finding from the data obtained by OTL: Awareness and use of Title IX offices have increased dramatically in the past six years, with many coordinators and industry experts citing high-profile athlete cases as a driving force. Since 2011, of 256 lawsuits brought by accused students against their universities alleging unfair treatment, about 20 percent of the claims have been made by athletes, said Samantha Harris, with FIRE…Attorney Mr. Cannarella, represented a soccer player at Coker College. The athlete was arrested and charged with rape and kidnapping, but the charges were dropped when the woman who had accused him admitted to making it up. The woman was arrested and charged with filing a false police report. A Title IX investigation also found no merit to her claims. “Nice-looking athletes tend to attract more women. … They’re just attracted to the big man on campus,” Cannarella said. “They consensually involve themselves with that athlete. And then if they feel rejected after anything that goes on between the two of them, and they get angry about it, they have a tendency to misrepresent what happened between the two of them.”

espn.com By Paula Lavigne

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UCHICAGO EXPELLED Male Days Before Graduation. His Ex Was Embarrassed When Friends Learned She was Having Sex w Him

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UCHICAGO EXPELLED Male Days Before Graduation. His Ex Was Embarrassed When Friends Learned She was Having Sex w Him

A former student who was expelled for sexual misconduct just four days before graduating is suing the University of Chicago and his ex-girlfriend, the accuser. [Personally, SOS believes males should sue their accuser if possible. Often the girl’s parents are unaware. Suing the accuser holds the accuser accountable and her parent(s) find out]

That the accused student, “John Doe,” has chosen to sue his accuser, “Jane Roe,” is indicative of the serious, malicious actions he ascribes to her. According to Doe’s lawsuit, their relationship was entirely consensual, and Roe did not dispute that. After they broke up, they continued to have sex, and those encounters were all consensual as well. Roe did not allege wrongdoing until her friends—to whom she had trash-talked Doe, and promised to stop seeing her ex—discovered she was still sleeping with him. She then claimed Doe had engaged in nonconsensual sex with her after she had passed out. “UC expelled [John Doe] despite overwhelming evidence that Jane Roe fabricated her story because she was too embarrassed to admit to her friends at UC that she was engaged in a secret sexual relationship with her ex-boyfriend,” wrote Doe’s lawyers in his lawsuit. The lawsuit accuses the university of breach of contract and abridgment of due process. It also contends that Roe defamed Doe and portrayed him in a false light.

reason.com By Robby Soave

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JOHN DOE is Suing CalTech. Asks Court to Seal Records.

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JOHN DOE is Suing CalTech. Asks Court to Seal Records.

The attorney representing CalTech student John Doe has asked the court that Doe’s Complaint ‘remain sealed throughout pretrial proceedings and up to trial.’ In the filing Michael Azat (Doe’s attorney) states, ‘grounds for this application are that the Complaint describes sensitive matters of sexual conduct between plaintiff and Jane Doe, and the Notice of Interested Parties identified plaintiff by his true name, which if made public would subject plaintiff and Jane Doe to harassment, injury, ridicule or personal embarrassment.’ Read the application to seal the complaint & proceed under a pseudonym here.

 

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