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CLEMSON STUDENT Sarah Campbell is Now Charged with a Felony for Filing a False Report.

May 29, 2018

News 4 Investigates has obtained new records in the case of the Clemson University student, Sarah Campbell who has been charged with a felony for filing a false report. The documents show a timeline of communication between Clemson University police and the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office in the early morning of January 27. In an exclusive interview in March, Campbell said she did not lie to investigators. She told officials that a man she did not know sexually assaulted her at an off-campus fraternity house in Oconee County in January. In late February, Oconee County deputies arrested Campbell and said that their investigation revealed that what happened was consensual and Campbell had not been truthful. Under South Carolina law, a person who falsely reports a felony is charged with a felony. If convicted, the penalty for false reporting of a felony is imprisonment for up to five years, or fines of up to $1,000 or both.

wyff4.com By Komorowski and Moore

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COURT RULING: Judge Says Sexism Played Role in JWU’s Wrongful Expulsion of John Doe

May 29, 2018

A judge declared in open court that sexism may have played a role in a university’s rush to judgment when adjudicating a sexual assault accusation. After oral arguments concerning a case alleging Johnson and Wales University violated a male student’s due process rights, Judge John McConnell said he could “find no reason at all why the result was Mr. Doe’s expulsion. The only inference [is] . . . gender played a role.” The case, now before a court system, is confirming the concerns of those who believe that universities exercise too much discretion when handling sexual misconduct allegations. Doe’s case highlights again that there may be issues with due process at universities that are willing to take matters that are meant to be handled by the criminal justice system into their own hands.

thefederalist.com By Schow breitbart.com By Ciccotta

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UNC asks NC Supreme Court to Stop Release of Title IX Sex Assault Records

May 25, 2018

Lawyers with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have asked the State Supreme Court to delay a unanimous order by appeals court judges last month to release records of students disciplined for sexual misconduct. University proceedings only determine whether students have violated code of conduct policies, not criminal law – and they do so at a lower standard of proof. By releasing names when the university finds students responsible for sexual assault, UNC lawyers wrote they’ll “forever be publicly branded as sex offenders. In additional to reputational consequences and lost future opportunities, responsible students who are named publicly can be subject to severe harassment and retribution,” the filing said. It’s now up to the North Carolina Supreme Court to decide to hear the case, which will undoubtedly impact how similar disciplinary records are handled at all of the state’s public university campuses.

wral.com By Tyler Dukes,

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LAWSUIT: GWU BLOCKS Appeal by Accused after Accuser Caught Creating Cell Phone ‘Evidence’

May 25, 2018

In January 2018, George Washington University found John Doe responsible for sexually assaulting Jane Roe in 2015 and suspended him for one year. The key evidence that Roe was too intoxicated to consent was an alleged phone call between her and a friend “E.E.” E.E. claimed that Roe slurred her words and was clearly incapacitated. It was the only testimony out of six (before the hearing board) that claimed Roe was visibly drunk and spoke “incoherently.” But then Doe discovered that the phone call was a fabrication, it never happened. And the discovery of the invented phone call between Roe and E.E. came nearly two months after Doe filed his appeal. Currently GWU is refusing to grant an appeal to the accused student it found responsible for sexual assault, choosing instead to ‘ignore the revelation that his accuser fabricated a key piece of evidence and likely mischaracterized her inebriation.’ Doe filed a motion for partial summary judgment in his lawsuit against the private university last week, asking a federal judge to force it to hear his appeal, which GWU deemed not “viable.”…According to KC Johnson, the worst aspect is that ‘GW now knows the accuser (and the university’s star witness) weren’t telling the truth, and knows that its decision is robbing the accused student of a chance of attending grad school, and the university doesn’t care.” “At some point the truth has to matter” the filing says.

thecollegefix.com By Megan Keller

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BREAST TOUCHING After Consent Sex is Assault Claimed Transitioning Trans Male: MSU Settled

May 25, 2018

For more than two years, the parents of a male undergraduate student had waged an expensive legal battle to clear their son’s disciplinary record at Michigan State University. He’d been found in violation of the university’s sexual misconduct policy for touching his on-and-off girlfriend’s breast in the hours after the couple had sex. For that, the student had been put on “indefinite” probation, restricted in visiting the campus after graduation, and endured the stigma of a sexual misconduct violation on his record ‒ a blot that threatened his ability to get a job after leaving school. It was not until February of this year, after being threatened with a lawsuit, that MSU quietly agreed to clear the student’s record. Most of the facts are not in dispute. A few hours after having sex, “Nathan” reached under her blouse and attempted to touch her breast. When he was rebuked, he removed his hand immediately. Both students agree that’s what happened. To the female student, however, the incident represented an intimate touching without explicit consent – a betrayal, and potential violation of MSU sexual misconduct policy. 15 months later the female student complained to MSU about the breast touch after sex. By that time, the female student was transitioning to become a man, and expressing fear of confronting the male she (now he) had sex with… Per the settlement agreement with the falsely accused heterosexual male. Michigan State University expunged the male’s disciplinary record, and reimbursed him $10,000 in legal fees – a fraction of what the student’s parents said they paid. There is no record of the disciplinary action on his academic record. And this is as it should be for this innocent young male.

MSU Settles Breast Touch By Berman Indepth Story on Breast Touch-Trans & TitleIX By Soave

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THE FALLOUT From Obama Pressuring Colleges, Weaponizing TitleIX & Denying Due Process

May 23, 2018

In April of 2011, the Obama administration changed Title IX policy, pressuring colleges to adopt procedures that dramatically increased the chances of a guilty finding in sexual misconduct cases. Justice for accused males became so rare that many turned to the courts, filing suit for loss of due process. Since then, universities and colleges have suffered 97 setbacks in these suits, few of them as dramatic as the ruling against Johnson & Wales University of Providence, Rhode Island. After an hour-long oral argument in which Judge John McConnell (an Obama nominee) peppered JWU’s lawyers with skeptical questions, the judge ruled from the bench that the Title IX claim would proceed. “On the pleadings,” he said, he could “find no reason at all why the result was Mr. Doe’s expulsion. The only inference [is] . . . gender played a role,” in violation of Title IX. Beyond the injustice, there were three ways that this ruling particularly stood out. First: more attention has been paid to bias in the training federal regulations require – not just Title IX investigators but also adjudicators. No school has voluntarily disclosed the contents of Title IX training. Doe’s lawyer, James Ehrhard, asked Johnson & Wales University for a copy of its training so he could identify JWU’s own biases and allow his client to conduct a robust defense. The university refused. Second: JWU contended that perhaps its policies were biased in favor of accusers, but that didn’t mean the policies discriminated on the basis of gender. Judge McConnell rejected this reasoning. Third: The timing of events at JWU was particularly notable. The JWU case casts strong doubts on the merits of the claims offered by the accusers’ rights groups. This entire adjudication- including the appeal, and the university’s refusal to give Ehrhard access to the training material used by the adjudicators- occurred after DeVos had withdrawn the Obama-era guidance. And yet JWU proceeded apace, maintaining the unfair policies it had adopted under Obama.

mindingthecampus.org By KC Johnson

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DEPTof EDUC. Investigates USC for Denying Resources to Males-that Only Females Get

May 22, 2018

The U.S. Department of Education is officially investigating allegations that the University of Southern California excludes male students from certain educational opportunities. OCR has agreed to investigate four USC initiatives, including the school’s Smart Women’s Securities chapter and the Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) chapter. Both of these programs allegedly discriminate “by excluding male students from participation and providing opportunities for female students only,” according to the OCR letter, which notes that many female-only scholarships at USC are also under investigation. Men are now a slight minority at USC, constituting only 48 percent of the student body. Women have also outpaced men in earning BAs since the 1981-1982 academic year and since then, the gender-gap has grown. By 2018 there is projected to be a 25 percent “gender degree gap” favoring women. USC Provost Fellow Kursat Pekgoz says that “there is no longer any valid reason to maintain affirmative action for women” considering their now-majority status. He also expressed disapproval with the lack of resources colleges provide for student fathers, citing for example how “the USC WISE program offers resources to pregnant women and women with children, [but offers] no equivalent resource for fathers.”

campusreform.org By Toni Airaksinen

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LAWSUIT: Male Claims Too Drunk to Consent & Accuses Female. Female Suspended. Accused Female is Suing.

May 22, 2018

It’s finally happened. A male student has accused a female student of sexual assault, claiming he was too drunk to consent to sexual activity. The school, shockingly, found the woman responsible and suspended her until the male student graduates. Now she, like so many wrongly accused male students, is suing. The female student, referred to in court documents as Jane Roe, is suing the University of Cincinnati for violating her due process rights. The case is an unfortunate necessity to show how absurd the current campus environment surrounding sexual assault has become.

thefederalist.com By Ashe Schow

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EX-JUNKIE College Girl Initiates Kissing. She Accused Male. Expelled Male has ADHD and is Suing.

May 21, 2018

John Doe has ADHD. John was expelled from St. Joseph University. John claims he was falsely accused of sexual misconduct, and he is suing St. Joseph’s University for denying him his disability right to accommodations for his ADHD. Some interesting facts about this John Doe/Jane Roe case: When John and Jane first met at a party, Jane flirted with John, and said she wasn’t a SJU student. That is a lie. Jane is a student. Jane told John she is a recovered cocaine and heroin addict. Jane was drinking that night and attempted to buy cocaine. John was ‘concerned for her well-being’ and ‘discouraged Roe from buying cocaine’. Throughout their time together at the party Roe ‘continued to demonstrate a romantic interest in Doe, by flirting with him, kissing him and giving him her cell phone number.’ A week later Roe accused Doe of sexual misconduct. John Doe was ‘shocked, horrified and humiliated because nothing untoward at all had happened with Roe.’ Doe received accommodation for his ADHD at SJU, which ‘SJU is well aware of’ but ‘throughout the course of Doe’s investigation, St. Joseph University ‘not only failed to make provisions or accommodations for Doe’s ADHD and slower processing speed, they failed to advise him that accommodations would be necessary and what if any, accommodations might be available to him.’ Read John Doe’s complaint against St Jopeph University here, courtesy of Dan Bauman.

SJU is not the only university to deny ADHD students their disability rights during a TitleIX sexual misconduct hearing. Drake University is facing two lawsuits for denying disability rights to a falsely accused male.

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