Article here. Excerpt:

'The call for women’s equality has been achieved at American universities. In fact, the feminist movement has been so successful that it is young male students, and not young women, who lose out.

The modern college is a man’s world no longer.

Now, women make up the majority of the student body on campus. They also lead in graduation rates, too. According to data from the federal government, women gained majority status in college enrollment in 1979. Since then, the gap between men and women has gotten wider, and women now are the majority of the student body at roughly 57 percent.

At some colleges, women outnumber men in even higher rates. For example, at Framingham State, a public university in Massachusetts, women make up 63 percent of the student body, the Boston Globe recently reported.

And in June, Dartmouth College announced that 54 percent of its undergraduate engineering degrees were awarded to women, “making it the first national research university to award more bachelor’s degrees in engineering to women than men.”'

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'Male numbers at universities across the English-speaking world are in decline. An independent commission in the U.K. found in 2013 that young women were a third more likely than their male peers to apply to university. The latest Statistics Canada figures reveal that women aged 25-34 earned 59.1% of university degrees. Moreover, a 2013 report by two economics researchers at MIT found that the decline in male higher education in the United States has been paralleled by a marked decline in male wages, employment, and occupational stature.

For some, this news may not seem disturbing. Men have dominated higher education and elite occupations for a long time—so the thinking goes—and it is women’s time to flourish now.

But as the authors of the MIT study point out, the ramifications of male under-achievement are disastrous not only for men themselves, especially for poor and racial minority men, but for their potential mates and their children, leading to the decline of stable, two-parent households for raising a family.

The reasons for decreased male participation in post-secondary education are undoubtedly complex, but an anti-male atmosphere may play a role. Whether intentionally or not, recent campus initiatives on sexual consent—which place even the most well-intentioned men in the role of potential rapists—and on encouraging men to own their purported “privilege” have led some men to perceive that their needs and feelings are less worthy of concern than those of female students.

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'When Vice President Biden and U.S. Department of Education officials announced in 2011 landmark Title IX guidance dealing with how colleges and universities handle sexual assault, I had the incredible honor of being a guest along with my colleague Laura Dunn as we both provided input on the Dear Colleague letter. The vice president’s call to action got the attention of higher education focused on this issue like it had never been before, something that was long overdue and resonates to this day.
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The Education Department, for example, had applied a “preponderance of the evidence,” commonly referred to as “50 percent plus one,” standard in Title IX cases dating back at least as early as 1991.

Schools, however, had only been notified on a case-by-case basis about this expectation.

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'At the start of the 2016 academic year, North Carolina State University installed surveillance cameras inside select fraternity and sorority houses.

The cameras were ostensibly there to monitor entrances for security purposes, but Campus Reform has learned through multiple sources that they were set up in a manner conducive to monitoring student behavior in their personal living spaces.
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While both cameras are pointed towards nearby doorways, it was discovered after installation that the cameras were zoomed out to a degree that allowed for the observation of students in their living space, which university officials acknowledged in an email exchange obtained by Campus Reform.
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When pressed on whether or not cameras are installed in the common areas of all fraternities and sororities, Hartman simply reiterated the school’s prior defense, saying “security cameras are installed at entrances and exits, pointed at entrances and exits,” and cited the school’s policy on closed-circuit cameras.

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'A federal lawsuit filed this week by Scott Ard, editor-in-chief of the Silicon Valley Business Journal, claims that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led an illegal “purge” of male employees from the company. Two other female executives are also named as defendants in the suit.

“Mayer encouraged and fostered the use of (an employee performance-rating system) to accommodate management’s subjective biases and personal opinions, to the detriment of Yahoo’s male employees,” the lawsuit claims, according to the East Bay Times. Ard is a former Yahoo employee.
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Yahoo has not yet responded to the lawsuit, except to defend its policies and performance reviews as fair, the East Bay Times reports.'

Request for comments here. Excerpt:

'Dear Colleague:

Section 466(a)(5) of the Social Security Act (the Act) requires a state to have procedures for a voluntary paternity acknowledgment process. In addition, section 452(a)(7) of the Act requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to specify the minimum requirements of an affidavit to be used for the voluntary acknowledgment of paternity.

In compliance with the requirements of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Administration for Children and Families is soliciting public comment on the Voluntary Acknowledgment of Paternity and Required Data Elements for Paternity Establishment Affidavits. A notice for public comment was published in the Federal Register, on page 66285, Volume 81, Number 187, on September 27, 2016.

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'The gender enrollment gap is not a problem that only faces Transylvania University, but instead, it is a nationwide problem. Roughly 58% of the students enrolled in college in the United States are female. Is this an issue that should concern feminists? A feminist issue is an issue that concerns feminists ideologically; what then is the ideology of feminism?

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Telephone: 301-801-0608
Email: cperry@prosecutorintegrity.org

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Police Forum Report Undermines Impartial Investigations, Promotes Wrongful Convictions, CPI Claims

WASHINGTON / October 4, 2016 – In observance of Wrongful Conviction Day, a leading criminal justice reform group is calling on the Police Executive Research Forum to remove a recent report that promotes “victim-centered” investigations. The PERF report, titled “Identifying and Preventing Gender Bias in Law Enforcement Response to Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence,” describes the “victim-centered” approach as handing “control of the process back to the victim” and asserts the complainant has a “right” to “request certain investigative steps not be conducted.” (1)

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'The Women’s Officer at the University of York has labelled students “dangerously naive” after they protested the institution first ever sexual consent classes, walking out en mass as they felt “patronised”.

The Union officers argued the “gender neutral” lessons were necessary to protect first-year students’ “wellbeing, physically and mentally”, following the nationwide moral panic concerning a supposed campus “rape crisis”.

However, around a quarter of the 5,000 youngsters summoned defiantly decided to leave the event, arguing that they did not need the lecture or wish to be framed as “potential rapists” by the feminist Women’s Officer.

“We’re Women’s Officers at the University of York. Earlier this year, we were elected after a cross-campus ballot in which we pledged to run consent talks. On Tuesday 27 September, we did just that”, wrote furious Student Union official Lucy Robinson, responding to the protest.'

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'A university in the United States has begun offering classes in “constructive male allyship,” providing a space where male students are able to “question and deconstruct toxic masculinities.”

Duke University, based in the city of Durham, North Carolina, held its first Learning Community session last week. The women’s centre has organised a nine-week series of seminars, as part of the Duke Men’s Project.

And, with sexual harassment and sexism remaining hot topics on American university campuses, the university has created the seminar series under the banner of the Men’s Project.

“Our purpose is twofold: to foster constructive male allyship, and to question and deconstruct toxic masculinities,” the Men’s Project says on its website.

“We also understand how masculinity in its normative form alienates most – if not all – men, and recognise the part normative masculinity plays in alienating men and reproducing violence.'

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'The BBC was at the centre of a damaging diversity row last night after one of its top radio stars was sacked for being 'white and male'.

Bafta award-winning comedian Jon Holmes was axed from The Now Show – the hit Radio 4 programme he has appeared on for 18 years – when bosses told him 'we're recasting it with more women and diversity'.

Last night, leading figures from the world of entertainment and across the political spectrum reacted with fury to the BBC instigating a policy in which it was now choosing performers based on their gender or skin colour, instead of their talent.

Mr Holmes revealed that since his sacking he has heard from other stars who have been rejected by broadcasting bosses because of 'positive discrimination'. He told how one woman presenter was given a job only later to be told 'we can't have you, because you are too white and middle class'.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Most reasonable people support equal opportunity for women. Often, they are women themselves, or are men with mothers, sisters, daughters, or wives. But once in a while, the push for equality has unforeseen and unpleasant consequences. In the case of opening restricted military occupations, American women are now vulnerable to involuntary military service that will without question subject them to unequal danger and suffering.'

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'The Navy announced Thursday that it’s removing all historic job titles and replacing them with occupational specialty codes, as opposed to direct titles, effectively removing the word “man” from job titles in a roundabout way.

According to Navy Times, what this decision means in practice is that “Fire Controlman 1st Class Joe Sailor…would be Petty Officer 1st Class Joe Sailor.”

“We’re going to immediately do away with rating titles and address each other by just our rank as the other services do,” Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. Robert Burke told Navy Times. “We recognize that’s going to be a large cultural change, it’s not going to happen overnight, but the direction is to start exercising that now.”'

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'For decades, there was a widely held belief they should have one home with the primary caretaker, often the mother. But that status quo is changing. Absent some mitigating factor, such as an abusive mom or a mentally ill dad, many experts now agree that kids are happier and healthier when they can “maintain and build on meaningful relationships with both of their parents,” says Michael Lamb, who teaches psychology at the University of Cambridge. More often than not, that requires living under the same roof as each parent for significant periods of time–which is possible only under joint, not sole, custody.

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Telephone: 301-801-0608
Email: glauterio@prosecutorintegrity.org

‘Victim-Centered’ Investigations Imperil the Presumption of Innocence, CPI Alleges

WASHINGTON / September 29, 2016 – A leading criminal justice reform organization is today calling on criminal justice officials and law school professors to speak out in opposition to so-called “victim-centered” investigations, and in support of the legal precept of the presumption of innocence. The Center for Prosecutor Integrity believes “victim-centered” investigative methods, which are based on the notion of “start by believing” and “always believe the victim,” are becoming more commonplace.

The Center for Prosecutor Integrity presents five examples of documents that promote the “victim-centered” approach: