Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2017-05-07 01:58
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'On the latest edition of my new podcast, The Liberty Files, I talk to Professor KC Johnson about his new book (co-authored with Stuart Taylor Jr.), The Campus Rape Frenzy: The Attack on Due Process at America’s Universities. Our colleges are in the grips of an emerging constitutional crisis, and it’s not “just” about free speech. In the name of stomping out a fictional tidal wave of campus sexual assaults, campus radicals (working with the federal Department of Education) are systematically violating the fundamental constitutional rights of college students nationwide. In the the podcast, Professor Johnson answers the key questions:
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Professor Johnson knows this topic cold, and his answers are engaging, interesting, and very alarming. Click here to listen, and please subscribe.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2017-05-05 17:43
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'A public university will put employees through a sexual-assault training program devised by an organization that opposes due process for accused students in campus rape investigations.
What’s surprising is that San Diego State University is doing this to settle a lawsuit by a student who was falsely accused of rape and allegedly denied due process.
Portugal-born Francisco Sousa was expelled by SDSU after a fellow student, Alexa Romano, accused him of rape in December 2014. (Romano told NBC San Diego three months earlier she was “scared of walking alone” after two reports of sexual assault the same week.)
When administrators investigated, they refused to let Sousa provide evidence that would have likely exonerated him, including text messages, social media posts and witnesses. It also named him as a suspect in a campuswide email.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2017-05-04 02:13
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'In recent years, critics of the Obama administration's approach to sexual assault reporting have charged that colleges are denying the rights of the accused.
Conservative websites, primarily, in the last few weeks have focused two pending lawsuits against universities. The suits say that after allegedly bungled investigations into sexual assault accusations under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, a University of Texas at Arlington student killed himself and a Cornell University student attempted to do so.
These two cases, among others, have been held up as examples of a flawed system that some say should require colleges to rely on a higher standard of evidence in investigating and punishing students for rape.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2017-05-04 02:10
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'A male Lynn University student has settled with the Florida school after he was suspended for a year over a sexual assault accusation local police ultimately determined was “unfounded.”
The details of the settlement, like so many in such cases, are confidential. The student, identified in court documents simply as John Doe, filed his lawsuit against the university on May 27, 2016. Lynn attempted to get the lawsuit dismissed, but Judge Robin Rosenberg denied the university’s motion, stating that the student “sufficiently alleged causal connection between allegedly erroneous outcome in disciplinary proceedings and gender bias on part of university.” The judge also accepted his breach of contract claim.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2017-05-04 02:10
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'The tone at the outset seemed friendly enough, but the underlying message was unmistakably coercive.
In April 2011, the federal Department of Education wrote to colleges and universities to tell them they would be held to account if they failed to crack down on sexual assaults.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2017-05-04 02:03
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'William Shatner is under fire for offering some mild criticism of contemporary feminism.
"Feminism is great," he tweeted on Monday, "but terms like toxic masculinity are degrading. It borders on that imaginary concept to feminists: misandry."
For sharing that reasonable perspective, Shatner was hit with a 1,300-word rebuttal in The Mary Sue, and compared to "men's rights activists" in Mic.
"When Shatner brings up misandry as if it's in any way the same as misogyny and deserves the same level of scrutiny," The Mary Sue writer declared, "it's hugely ignorant, irresponsible, and sexist."
For his part, Shatner did not cave to the backlash. Instead, the actor doubled down in a series of tweets engaging with his detractors, insisting that misandry is a real phenomenon.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2017-05-03 02:22
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'The YWCA Evanston/North Shore has a motto of helping to eliminate racism and empowering women, but the nonprofit included men — exclusively — at a recent forum that addressed the issue of domestic violence.
An estimated 200 men filled the Crystal Ballroom last Wednesday at The Merion senior residence, attending the YWCA Evanston/North Shore's first-ever men's leadership dinner entitled "Men Taking a Stand."
"We are doing this to start a conversation with men to get them engaged in working with us as allies to end gender violence," said Karen Singer, president and CEO of the YWCA Evanston/North Shore. "It's not just a woman's issue, it's a human issue and it impacts all of us.
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Jackson Katz, author, scholar, lecturer and educator on gender, race and violence issues from Long Beach, California was the keynote speaker.'
The two attached images were featured on the same page as the article.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2017-05-03 01:30
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'Convicted felon Donna Hylton spoke on a civil rights panel at a fancypants college earlier this month but completely failed to mention that she — along with several others — kidnapped a man, forcibly sodomized him with a steel pole and then tortured him to death. When a student at the event asked Hytlon about the heinous crime, a second panelist loudly berated the student for having “embarrassed” Hylton.
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Hylton “made it seem like she was some innocent woman who was put in jail,” the student also said. “She didn’t say why she was in jail. She said it was because of the color of her skin.”
“Her basic theme was, ‘I am an innocent victim and it’s because of how awful Donald Trump is.'”
Without question, Hylton is no innocent victim.
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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2017-05-02 00:55
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'New Zealand mothers kill more children than any other group in society and men are victims of domestic violence as often as women, a police investigation has found.
The Family Violence Death Review, released today by police, found mothers were responsible for 45 per cent of children killed by domestic violence.
The review of 95 family violence deaths involving 101 victims between 2004 and 2011 revealed some "inconvenient truths", Family First national director Bob McCoskrie said.
He said the statistics debunked the misleading popular perception "that women and children need to be protected from men".
"This gender focus is misleading," Mr McCoskrie said.
"If we're really serious about reducing family violence, we need to talk about ... our violent culture and the role alcohol and drugs play in fuelling this environment."'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2017-05-01 22:57
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'At the University of Florida, a student was recently penalized for writing “man” instead of “humankind” in a class paper.
History major Martin Poirier wrote “Water is a thing prior to man” on a paper for a history class called “History of Water.”
“Thoughtful paper, although the writing-mechanics errors are killing you,” Professor Jack Davis wrote at the bottom of the paper. He gave the student a B minus, according to a copy of the essay published in the student news outlet the Daily Nerv.
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Davis defended the penalization in an email to The College Fix. He explained that the “exercise and inclusion of ‘humankind’ are consistent with the Chicago Manual of Style, the style and the usage guide followed in the discipline of history.”'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2017-05-01 22:40
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'The American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL) has released a White Paper on Campus Sexual Assault Investigations aimed at improving the process employed by universities to address campus sexual assaults.
Concerns over sexual assaults on college campuses had prompted the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to issue a Dear Colleague Letter, as well as a subsequent 2014 clarification, significantly expanding the federal government’s interpretation of Title IX by establishing new procedures for colleges and universities to respond to allegations of sexual harassment and assault.
"Members of law school faculties have opined that the accused in such assault cases are being denied fundamental rights."
State and federal court cases also similarly highlighted concerns about fairness during the investigative process.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2017-05-01 22:39
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'The landmark antidiscrimination law that empowered many young women to report sexual violence in college has become a legal weapon for a growing number of men to fight back against schools that kicked them out for sexual misconduct.
These men, alleging in lawsuits that college investigations treated them unfairly, are often securing settlements that clear the discipline from their record, lawyers and advocacy groups say. Some are being allowed to return to campus.
The legal pushback from these men has emerged in response to a wave of campus activism in recent years and a shift in federal enforcement of Title IX, the law that led to more reports of sexual assault and major changes in how colleges resolve those complaints.
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Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2017-05-01 22:35
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'San Diego State University has agreed to pay $10,000 and take other steps to settle a lawsuit filed by a former student who said he was suspended and wrongly accused of sexual assault.
Francisco Sousa was a 20-year-old foreign exchange student from Portugal when he was arrested by SDSU police Dec. 9, 2014, and charged with sexually assaulting and imprisoning a woman near campus.
About a dozen reports of sexual assaults had been reported in the area that semester, and there had been a heightened awareness of the problem across the nation.
Sousa denied the accusations and the charges were dropped in January 2015, but the school would not lift the suspension. He sued SDSU that April to demand information about the accusation against him, and his attorney believed that information could be used to expel Sousa.'
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Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2017-05-01 22:35
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'Yet another lawsuit by a male student claiming discrimination is prompting some to question whether universities are fair to all parties when investigating sexual assault claims.
In the latest case, a former student is suing the University of Notre Dame, claiming he was unfairly expelled three weeks before his graduation for unproven "dating violence" allegations. He contends that he never touched or threatened the former girlfriend who filed the complaint.
The lawsuit has student rights advocates questioning the legitimacy of university assault investigations processes. Even some victims advocates are calling for a change in the way universities handle cases.
"The fact that a university lawyer can present evidence against students (accused of assault) and students are not allowed to have a lawyer present is so unfair," said Jonathan Little, an Indianapolis lawyer who represents university sexual assault victims. "It cheapens the 90 percent of allegations that are true."'
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