The Inquisition Comes to College Campuses

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'Veteran Hamilton County, Ohio prosecutor Joe Deters called the process “fundamentally unfair” and “seriously flawed,” and he was right. What he didn’t say was that the process is also the law of the land.

The process Deters was talking about was the one used to expel budding basketball star Dezmine Wells from Xavier University. A young woman had leveled sexual abuse allegations at Wells and, as night follows day, he was “convicted” by a panel of students, faculty and administrators, and expelled from school. Dez Wells had no prior offenses of any kind on his record, but, apparently based on her word against his, he has now been forever branded with a scarlet ‘A’ for ‘abuser.’ The university denied Wells the right to an attorney to assist the 19-year-old in defending himself.
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In addition, colleges and universities are required by federal regulations under Title IX to try claims of sexual misconduct under the lowest standard of evidence in the legal system – preponderance of evidence. That means if a jury or other fact-finder concludes that there is the slightest bit more evidence supporting the complaint than not, then the accused must be found guilty and punished. That’s what happened to Dez Wells. Often, a woman’s tears fall heavily on the scales of justice.'