DUKE SETTLES w Soccer Player. DUKE Avoids Exposing Their Biased & Covert TitleIX Process
Ciaran McKenna, a soccer player for Duke, was in the U.S. on a student visa from the U.K. when a female student accused him of sexual assault months after their sexual encounter. Their dispute boils down to whether the sex that followed their making out was consensual. Duke’s hearing panel made several errors and showed partiality, according to McKenna. It used the wrong standard to judge whether the woman’s actions showed consent, which led Duke to convene a new hearing panel – a decision that amounted to “double jeopardy,” according to McKenna’s faculty advisor. Duke had a compelling reason to avoid trial. Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek had been called to testify in McKenna’s case (as well as another that Duke also settled last month.) Dean Wasiolek had issued gender-stereotypical directives on consent, saying that men have the responsibility to get consent from women, even if both students were drunk. According to McKenna’s attorney, Emilia Beskind, “my client is expected to graduate in December and remains a student in good standing at Duke with no disciplinary record.”
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