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LAWSUIT: Male Says TIX Investigation @UW-Madison Violates 5th Amendment Rights

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LAWSUIT: Male Says TIX Investigation @UW-Madison Violates 5th Amendment Rights

Quintez Cephus, the Badgers wide receiver who was suspended from the team following two counts of sexual assault, announced he is bringing federal charges against UW-Madison for violating his constitutional rights to a fair investigation. Cephus argues that the simultaneous criminal and Title IX investigations into sexual assault charges made against him violated his rights. “Defendants have knowingly and intentionally forced Cephus into the predicament of having to either waive his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination by choosing to participate in the university process despite the potential harm to his criminal defense- OR- decline to participate in the university’s process, thus leading to the inevitable finding of responsibility and severe sanctions.” The matter, according to the lawsuit, “highlights the widespread issue of colleges and universities, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, investigating and adjudicating allegations against its students prior to the conclusion of any parallel criminal case.”

The Fifth Amendment is important because it protects us from having our rights abused by the government. The Fifth Amendment says that we cannot have our life, liberty, or property taken except by due process of law… For Mr. Cephus, without due process he could face permanent suspension from the football team, expulsion from the university and a criminal record.

dailycardinal By Jon Brockman

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STUDY: False Reports of Sex Assault Are Not 2% as Claimed. False Reports are Closer to 40%

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STUDY: False Reports of Sex Assault Are Not 2% as Claimed. False Reports are Closer to 40%

The assertion from forces against Brett Kavanaugh that false allegations of rape or attempted rape are extremely rare is rebutted by a number of studies. Mr. Turvey’s 2017 book, “False Allegations: Investigative and Forensic Issues in Fraudulent Reports of Crime,” looked at a range of bogus reporting, including on rape and sexual assault. He examined existing studies and police statistics. One academic study showed that as many as 40 percent of sexual assault charges are false. “False reports happen, they are recurrent and there are laws in place to deal with them when they do,” he wrote. “They are, for lack of a better word, common.”… “There is no shortage of politicians, victims’ advocates and news articles claiming that the nationwide false report for rape and sexual assault is almost nonexistent, presenting a figure of around 2 percent” states Mr. Turvey. “This figure is not only inaccurate but also it has no basis in reality. Reporting it publicly as a valid frequency rate with any empirical basis is either scientifically negligent or fraudulent.”  Mr. Turvey quotes a study by researcher Edward Greer, past president of the Association American Law Schools. He traced the one and only source for the “2 percent” assertion to a 1975 book, “Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape,” which quoted statistics from New York City, not from across the nation. Mr. Turvey cites 10 studies that debunk the 2 percent assertion in the U.S. and abroad. “The power of any lie is equal only to our desire to believe it,” Mr. Turvey wrote. “Specifically, our need and eagerness to believe it. This is the problem with belief — which is accepting something as true or correct without proof.”

washingtontimes  By Rowan Scarborough

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UC DAVIS: Boy&Girl Make Out…Clearly Consensual. Boy Spent $12K Defending His Innocence

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UC DAVIS: Boy&Girl Make Out…Clearly Consensual. Boy Spent $12K Defending His Innocence

A brief romantic encounter at UC-Davis triggered a Title IX investigation after the female student changed her mind about it weeks later….James, a freshman at the University of California-Davis, was on his way to math class when he received an email that would derail his life for the next few months: The university’s Title IX office, which handles sexual misconduct disputes between students, was investigating a complaint against him.

reason By Robby Soave

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McCARTHY LIST @Uof Washington. Website Accuses Males Who Have Not Been Convicted

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McCARTHY LIST @Uof Washington. Website Accuses Males Who Have Not Been Convicted

A website created by University of Washington students allows users to anonymously post the names of men who have allegedly committed sexual assault. The allegations cover a wide range of acts. Some people are simply named with an allegation, other posts include where the accused works or their campus affiliations. Many of the posts say the accusation was not reported. The website isn’t even limited to accusing UW students, either.  The website allows anonymous accusations against named people, with no meaningful verification and without any requirement or avenue to report the incident to someone who could actually do something about it. It appears that the list of sexual assault perpetrators has grown substantially on the site in recent weeks in the wake of the rape claims made against U.S. Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Meanwhile, one student named on “Make them scared UW” told The College Fix that the allegation is false, that the University of Washington has dismissed the allegations against him as completely uncorroborated and cleared him of any wrongdoing. Thus far, every person named on the list is male. As one might conclude, anonymously accusing someone of a crime without any evidence to back it up could result in a defamation lawsuit…Students at Columbia University did something similar by posting the names of accused students on bathroom walls.  One of the named students was Paul Nungesser, who was cleared of charges that he raped fellow student Emma Sulkowicz (better known as “Mattress Girl”). Nungesser sued Columbia and received an out-of-court settlement.

dailywire By Ashe Schow thecollegefix By Daniel Payne

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LAWSUITS Against Dartmouth College: Males Claim Discrimination, Unfair Treatment

A quiet battle is unfolding at Dartmouth College. Over the past two years, at least three male students – expelled or suspended for offenses ranging from alleged domestic violence to plagiarism – have sued the Ivy League school claiming that its disciplinary committee unfairly punished them and, in two cases, discriminated against them based on their gender. The cases strike at the heart of complicated cultural and legal questions for institutions of higher education: How should they balance the rights of accusers against those of the accused, and what should be the standard of proof? “Schools really want to crack down and clearly, in some cases, they have overreacted. Sometimes the Office of Civil Rights has pushed them to overreact, and sometimes they’ve done it on their own,” said Boston College professor R. Shep Melnick, author of “The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating Gender Equality in Education.”

unionleader  By Todd Feathers

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WONDERFUL NEWS. Jury Declares Former UNC Charlotte Quarterback Kevin Olsen Innocent

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WONDERFUL NEWS. Jury Declares Former UNC Charlotte Quarterback Kevin Olsen Innocent

Late Wednesday afternoon, 19 months after he was arrested and charged with the rape of his girlfriend, Kevin Olsen became a free man.  The former UNC Charlotte quarterback, 23, was found not guilty on three counts of second-degree rape and one count of second-degree sex offense. Each charge carried a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. When the verdicts were read aloud, Olsen turned in his chair at the defense table and stared triumphantly at his family behind him. He hugged his attorneys, George and Bree Laughrun, then sank back in his chair in tears. “He told me, ‘You never lost faith in me. You and your daughter have helped put my family back together again,’ ” Laughrun said. Olsen was indicted in May 2017 and pleaded not guilty in September 2017 after rejecting a plea deal.  In the end, Olsen’s case was heard by nine men and three women – most of them a generation or more removed from their college years. In picking the jury, Laughrun said the defense team got a break that the jury pool was largely bereft of college-age women.  He said a discussion he had with one juror after the trial supported that conclusion. The juror told him the first jury vote after deliberations began was 10-2 in favor of Olsen. The jury sent a note to Superior Court Judge Karen Eady-Williams asking her  “What would happen if we have a hung jury?” The judge brought them into the courtroom to tell them that they had a duty to reach a decision that “reflected the truth” in the case. An hour later, they came back.  Video of Kevin Olsen responding to jury’s decision  

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GOOD NEWS: SF Court Dismisses Suit Challenging DoED’s Title IX Guidelines

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GOOD NEWS: SF Court Dismisses Suit Challenging DoED’s Title IX Guidelines

A lawsuit by women’s rights advocates challenging the Trump administration’s rollback of federal policies on campus sexual harassment was dismissed Monday by a federal magistrate in San Francisco, who said the new standards can’t be challenged in court because they are only guidelines, with no penalties for violations. U.S. Magistrate Jacqueline Scott Corley said the guidelines were not “final agency action” that can be challenged, because they are not binding. “Voluntarily changing a policy in response to an agency’s nonbinding enforcement guidance is not the same thing as being required to do so by the guidance itself,” U.S. Magistrate Corley said.

sfchronicle By Bob Egelko

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EXCELLENT! Title IX Policy Change @MiamiU. Implements Cross-Examination

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EXCELLENT! Title IX Policy Change @MiamiU. Implements Cross-Examination

 

Miami University’s student conduct process and Title IX Protocol will now give the accused student or their agent an opportunity to personally cross-examine the accuser, rather than channeling questions through the chair of the hearing, according to a recent email by Dean of Students Kimberly Moore. “When the credibility of one or more of the parties is at issue and suspension or dismissal is a possible sanction, students will be given the opportunity to ask questions directly of one another following questioning by the hearing officer or panel,” Moore wrote. This change is in compliance with a recent Sixth Circuit federal court of appeals decision which applies to public universities in Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan and Tennessee.

thecollegefix By Greg Piper  Thank the Courts for Rescuing College Kids From Unfair Sex Assault Charges 

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BOY 13, Arrested Cuffed & Dragged From School Over [False] #METOO Allegations

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BOY 13, Arrested Cuffed & Dragged From School Over [False] #METOO Allegations

While the focus of SOS is to highlight Title IX injustices perpetrated upon thousands of college males when they are accused of sexual misconduct, I have noticed with increasingly regularity and speed, that many high school and elementary young boys are being targeted and accused by young girls. There is an ugly, frightening feminist attack being executed upon our young boys. We must stop being mesmerized by the wayward MeToo movement. We need to stand up for the presumption of innocence, and for due process. Because when you don’t, you get an innocent 8th grade boy facing an inquisition and being handcuffed. BEFORE the school calls his parents. A.True

…In a scene from #MeToo meets The Crucible, four female students have accused an eighth grade boy of sexual assault after he refused to apologize for going against political correctness…It started off an ordinary day for eighth grader Keith Bailey until he was summoned by administrators into the vice principal’s office at a Colorado Springs, Colo. middle school. For over two hours alone in her office, the vice principal grilled Keith. Keith’s father, Dennis Bailey, says. “They were vague the whole time. They never asked anything specific.” Only after the two hour inquisition did the school phone Keith’s parents to let them know he was being suspended. But before they did that, they called the police. By the time Keith’s father showed up at the school, his son was being cuffed and put into the back of a police car.  “He’s pretty scared. I was scared. He was crying when they arrested him.” Dennis, 32, who works as a plumber, says. “I think the whole political climate is what is motivating this. Anytime you disagree with somebody, now you accuse them of sexual assault and automatically they’re a victim and you’re a monster.  “It blew my mind. My son is not even mature enough to have done anything like that maliciously. I don’t think it’s in his realm of mental capacity at this point in his life. That they are demonizing him as some sort of malicious predator blows my mind. I don’t even think his mind is capable of being predatory.”  The Crucible-like scenario has the Bailey’s reeling. “We are all on edge. I’m furious personally. I’m furious at these kids, and at their parents for allowing them to do something like this. I’m furious at the school for not even seeming like they are giving him a chance to defend himself, and the way they tried to intimidate him. It seems really shady how they wouldn’t call us until two hours after they started interrogating him,” Dennis says.

dangerous.com By Chadwick Moore

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