Charges Dropped, Cleared by TIX, and Legislation supporting due process investigations
Hostility to the due process rights of college men accused of sexual assault comes directly from the White House, and it is the White House that must signal an end to this hostility…Senator Marco Rubio has pledged that, if elected president, he will end the Department of Education’s assault on the due process rights of men accused of college sexual misconduct and, in fact, that he will enhance those same due process rights.
Bernie Sanders called for all rape accusations on college campuses to be handled through law enforcement, a controversial stance that puts him at odds with many advocates.
thehill.com By Ben Kamisar
A number of law professors, even some with strong liberal feminist credentials, have spoken out against the campus rape panic and the push for harsher measures that they say trample on students’ rights…Gruber noted that in recent years, “publicity about rape culture and the campus rape crisis has created widespread anxiety over rampant rape committed by college men”—despite studies showing that sexual assault is on the decline and less prevalent on campus than off.
weeklystandard.com By Cathy Young
Judge Glen Conrad ordered the release of the documents on behalf of a lawsuit filed by University of Virginia Dean Nicole Eramo, who was maligned in the article and is now suing Rolling Stone for defamation…As it looks now, Jackie was infatuated with a fellow freshman named Ryan Duffin, who didn’t reciprocate her feelings. So Jackie made up a fake student, named “Haven Monahan” and created a fake texting account to talk to Duffin to convince him that Jackie was worthy of affection.
washingtonexaminer.com By Ashe Schow
The Chronicle of Higher Education has unveiled a new tool for tracking the ballooning number of federal investigations into alleged Title IX violations by colleges and universities.
www.thefire.org By Alex Morey
“Colleges and universities across the nation, in addition to prestigious legal scholars, government officials, and members of the U.S. Congress view the Dear Colleague letters as improperly issued guidance that require constitutionally questionable and ill-conceived policies …”
washingtonpost.com By Emma Brown
Lankford said federal education officials have claimed authority over the matters “at-large” under Title IX…new policy mandates by the Education Department actually expand the scope of Title IX “to infringe on constitutionally-protected behaviors and practices”…”multiple universities have reportedly been subject to OCR’s coercive ‘voluntary resolution agreement’ practices,” and offered the example of Tufts University in the Boston area, which faced a threat of having its federal funding terminated in a dispute with OCR over its handling of sexual harassment or assault complaints.
Georgia Tech gets really snippy in its Monday response to the plaintiff’s Dec. 15 motion for a preliminary injunction, saying the school followed all its procedures correctly and that it had a “rational” reason for its “discrimination” against him (yes, the school uses that word)…Georgia Tech is claiming that its own interest in not getting sued by an accuser, or investigated by the federal government for not favoring accusers, outweighs procedural fairness for accused students.
thecollegefix.com By Greg Piper
A Georgia Institute of Technology student who sued his school two weeks ago over an expulsion for sexual assault has been reinstated — but not by a judge…”Our client and his family are adamant that no one else suffer through the same painful, protracted and often Orwellian investigative and hearing process, and once we finalize the details of his reinstatement, we will address next steps in pursuing this case,” Miltenberg added.
washingtonexaminer.com By Ashe Schow
A grand jury refused to indict and the charges were dismissed, yet the school still expelled them…Ricci said the accused students were not granted a hearing before being expelled…the facts showed there was no sexual assault. “I knew they would come out innocent; the truth always comes out,” said one female student who supported the accused.
washingtonexaminer.com By Ashe Schow