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'One of our classes involved training on deadly force, which covers the protective procedures utilized when an officer is under attack. One student, playing the perpetrator, crouches over another student, playing the officer, and pretends to strike the officer in the face. In self-defense, the officer rolls the perpetrator over, changing positions to neutralize the threat.

For purposes of this training exercise, I was the designated “perpetrator” and a female student in the class the designated “officer.” The demonstration proceeded uneventfully and the class dismissed.

But at the next class, I was called out of the room and escorted to the administrator’s office. At that time, I was accused of “inappropriate contact” with the female cadet during the training demonstration.

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'The makeup of Australia's new federal Parliament has finally come together, and with it comes some joyous news: a whopping 73 of our 266 parliamentarians are now women, or 32.3 per cent. That puts us in the illustrious company of countries like Laos, Guyana and Nepal, and even sees us inch ahead of Afghanistan, that renowned stronghold of women's rights.
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But an outfit in the US is pushing back against that dynamic. Most American political action committees (or PACs for short) are little more than fundraising avenues for Presidential and Congressional candidates, but the delightfully named Can You Not PAC has a different goal: to discourage straight white guys from running for office and throw their support behind women, people of colour and LGBTQ people instead.

Started in 2014 by co-founders Jack Teter and Kyle Huelsman – two college-educated white guys themselves – the PAC's target audience isn't the under-represented groups it's trying to empower. Rather, Can You Not direct their message at "egregiously overconfident white men" who are so convinced of their own unique ability to solve all the world's problems, they run for office despite being manifestly unqualified.
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"We challenge brogressives and others to reject any notion that they are uniquely qualified or positioned to seek political office in districts that don't need them," Can You Not's website explains. "As well-represented white dudes, we feel it is our obligation to know when to shut up and Not."

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'Fathers’ rights activists hope that the recent death of a Grimes toddler while in his mother's care can help spur changes to the state’s child custody laws, saying that could help prevent tragedies.

The boy's father said he tried to alert authorities to the mother's mental health issues, fearing that they might pose a danger to their child.

Bryan Iehl, founder of the group IowaFathers, said he has worked to pass legislation for the past 10 years that would require courts to grant joint physical care of children in divorce proceedings unless there’s evidence it wouldn’t be in the child’s best interest. Last session, the bill passed the Iowa House but did not advance in the Senate.'

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'It was seen as normal that boys could tell me girls had evolved to have 'smaller brains than them' - so we should stay at home. Or not be a part of the football team.

When I started secondary school these issues became more apparent to me as I began to think properly about the things that were going on around me.

Now aged 14, this thought process led me to start a petition, “A In Equality”, because I think that feminism should be on the PSHE (personal, social, health and economic) curriculum in all schools. In order to achieve equality on every front, we need to start by educating the future generation on the rights that will affect every single person every single day.'

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'Hoover High School surveillance video shows PE teacher Lori McCombs grab her teen daughter by the neck and drag her while the pair was inside the school.

McCombs is charged with third-degree domestic violence in the 2015 incident. AL.com obtained a copy of the videotape today. The attack happened at the school on Aug. 27, 2015 and reportedly followed a discussion where the teen daughter told her mother she wouldn't be able to compete in a track meet the following day because of an injury.

McCombs in May was arrested in the parking lot of the Hoover City Schools' central office on the domestic violence charge. Hoover police investigated the incident when it happened, and the teen victim in May completed the necessary paperwork to have McCombs charged. McCombs is no longer the legal guardian of her daughter, and remains on the 2016-2017 schedule.'

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'Non-verbal cues figure in frequently with sexual consent among college students, and that may not comport with schools’ affirmative-consent rules, say two academics who spent one year interviewing a sample of northern California freshmen.

“The idea of affirmative consent has resulted in progressive advancement of college policies. But just because you make it clearer what we expect in terms of consent from a legal or policy standpoint, that doesn’t change the fact that people are limited in their ability to meet those expectations,” Jason Laker told Inside Higher Ed. A counselor education professor at San Jose State University, he worked on the study with Erica Boas, an adjunct lecturer at Santa Clara University.

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'Now, states like Minnesota and Connecticut have enacted laws requiring their colleges to implement websites where students can make anonymous complaints about sexual assault and harassment. An investigation is only launched when an official report is filed.

Some say these laws and other attempts to allow anonymous "snitching" go too far, opening the door to false accusations and recriminations.

"It's Orwellian," said John F. Banzhaf, III, professor of public interest law at George Washington University Law School. "They don't even have to tell you a complaint was filed."

The person reported may never have a chance to defend himself, he said, jeopardizing a student or faculty member's reputation and career. Banzhaf says he was falsely accused of harassment under an anonymous hotline reporting system that was set up at GWU in 2002.

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'A group of more than 90 law professors from at least three dozen different universities signed onto a white paper, to be released Sunday, defending the U.S. Department of Education’s guidance on how colleges should handle sexual assault cases.
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The preponderance standard is used in civil lawsuits. In criminal courts, there’s a higher standard to establish someone’s guilt: “proof beyond a reasonable doubt,” meaning there’s hardly any chance the accused person isn’t guilty.
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“There is a mistaken tendency to assume that the Department of Education is policing rape on college campuses and should therefore use the background norms of criminal law as an appropriate model for adjudication procedures,” Baker told The Huffington Post. “In fact, the department is responding to the overwhelming evidence that a culture of male sexual entitlement permeates college campuses and that women suffer disproportionately from having to live, study, and try to learn in that environment.”'

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'Boys should be given the HPV jab alongside girls to prevent cancer and not doing so is ‘discriminatory’, scientists claim.

The vaccine protects against the Human Papilloma Virus, which triggers a range of cancers including cervical in women and head, throat and neck.

It is already offered to 12 and 13 year old schoolgirls and is estimated to protect against 70 per cent of cervical cancers but the Government is reluctant to roll it out to males.

The Department of Health is currently overseeing a pilot which launched last month to test the cost and effectiveness at offering the jab in some clinics.

But growing numbers of academics say it should be given to adolescent boys at the same time as girls to prevent cancers of the throat, head and neck.'

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'Three years ago, Linda Reutzel, Chair of the National Parents Organization chapter of Missouri, decided to take matters into her own hands. Her son had received the usual treatment in family court, and Linda was rarely able to see her own grandchild. So she decided to get the custody law changed.

Now, three years later, she can point with pride to the near-unanimous passage of a strong shared parenting law in Missouri, which was signed into law by Governor Jay Nixon a few weeks ago!'

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'Setting aside the conviction and life sentence imposed on a farmer by a trial court on the charge of raping a minor girl, the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court observed that the prosecution should be vigilant enough to conduct the investigation in a right manner and bring home the guilt of the accused in a flawless way.

This is imperative, as “any failure on the part of the prosecution would definitely go to the benefit of the accused,” said Justice B. Gokuldas. Allowing a criminal appeal filed by farmer Chellappan from Gandarvakottai village in Pudukottai district, a division bench comprising Justices K.K. Sasidharan and Gokuldas said that the medical officer who issued the certificate of the minor girl had very clearly mentioned that there was neither external injury on the private part nor any internal injury in the form of tearing of hymen.

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'What happens when women represent 7 out of every 10 students across an entire class of colleges?

Men’s athletics get the ax – or more accurately, they get clear-cut.
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It’s emblematic of schools in predominantly black conferences, where more than a dozen sports – “mainly of the nonrevenue variety” – have been dropped or suspended in the past five years.'

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'A male University of Southern California student expelled for sexual assault appealed the decision on grounds that the adjudication process was wholly inadequate and stacked against him from the start. USC's Title IX coordinator responded with shocking hostility—bureaucrats don't like when their authority is questioned, it seems.

"Does that college motherfucker know who I am?" USC Title IX Director Gretchen Dahlinger Means asked Title IX Investigator Patrick Noonan, after a conference call during which the student, "John Doe," had explained his intention to appeal. It was a hot mic moment: Dahlinger and Noonan thought the student and his lawyer had already exited the call.

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'New York, California, Connecticut and Illinois all expect college students to get the “affirmative consent” of their partners before having sex. Otherwise, it’s sexual assault under state law.

Many other colleges have voluntarily implemented “yes means yes” policies that automatically judge a student (usually male) responsible for sexual misconduct if his partner (usually female) says later that her apparent consent was not valid.

Those laws and rules badly misunderstand how students actually approach sex, according to research by a self-proclaimed feminist scholar at San Francisco State University’s Center for Research and Education on Gender and Sexuality.