Articles relating to due process rights for our College boys
“…students enrolled in North Dakota’s public colleges and universities will now have the right to secure legal representation when facing allegations of serious misconduct.”
Stanford University will expel just about every student found responsible for sexual assault (with little due process, of course). www.washingtonexaminer.com By Ashe Schow
Doe accuses his ex-girlfriend of lying to school officials about their consensual relationship… and he alleges that Reed College railroaded him through a disciplinary process intended only to expel him.
www.oregonlive.com By Bryan Denson
“I don’t know that American higher education was ready for this…The level of accountability and scrutiny is extraordinary. We feel mistrusted by everyone.”
chronicle.com By Robin Wilson
Accusations Do Not Equal Guilt…Colleges will model our American belief in “innocent until proven guilty.” by Sherry Warner Seefeld, President of facecampusequality.org
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A former Washington and Lee University student who claims that he was expelled on the basis of false rape charges has made changes to his lawsuit against the school.
www.roanoke.com By Laurence Hammack
The fraternity at the heart of the retracted Rolling Stone article on campus rape says it plans to pursue “all available legal action against the magazine.”
“the Office for Civil Rights, where I used to work, has made punishment of innocent students more likely,…a bigger threat to innocent students is the massive financial risk colleges face if they do not swiftly expel accused students. Thanks partly to OCR stacking the deck, it can be much cheaper for a college to expel a possibly innocent student than to find him not guilty.”
cei.org Hans Bader speaks at the National Press Club’s event titled “Bringing an End to Second-Class Justice”
The judge in the case, Ronnie Abrams, was recommended to the federal bench by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., who has no problem labeling young men as rapists without any due process.
www.washingtonexaminer.com By Ashe Schow
“How can the University fairly evaluate a case in any circumstance if a complaining witness is not even part of the University community?…innocent in the eyes of the law, how much more information did the University need in order to make a decision…”
www.cavalierdaily.com Victor Zheng’s story