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'In the eyes of Justin Dillon, a Washington, D.C., attorney who has handled campus misconduct cases nationwide, the case "perfectly captures the hysterical campus climate these days. Highly ambiguous situations are put through an incredibly one-sided process in which the accused are presumed guilty from the start, and the results are sadly predictable."
Stern is "doing what any good defense attorney with a high-profile case would do," Dillon said, "getting the counter-narrative out there to show there are very much two sides to this story. ... There is nothing to lose when your name is out there and everybody is assuming you are guilty. He has nowhere to go but up."
But Colby Bruno, who represents those filing complaints as a lawyer for the Victim Rights Law Center in Boston, said Stern's action is reflective of a pushback from those accused of sexual assault.
The group letter is believed to be the first time that professors from numerous law schools have publicly chastised the federal Office for Civil Rights.
'An FIR filed by a woman against five persons, including her husband and brothers-in-law, for holding her hostage and repeatedly raping her, was proved false during investigation. Police said she had cooked up the entire story to extract Rs 7 lakh* from those named in the complaint.
The woman in question was found allegedly in an unconscious state with her clothes askew on NH-24 in Bareilly's Fatehganj (west) on June 12 at around 5 am. In her complaint, she claimed that her in-laws physically assaulted her over dowry and hence, she left their home and filed a case in December 2013. But, she had to withdraw it after her in-laws started threatening her. On March 21, her in-laws kidnapped her on her way to the market by dragging her into a car. She told police that they held her after her kidnapping, she was held hostage and repeatedly gang-raped her.
'Academia's descent into perpetual hysteria and incipient tyranny is partly fueled by the fiction that 1 in 5 college students is sexually assaulted and that campuses require minute federal supervision to cure this. Encouraged by the government’s misuse of discredited social science (one survey supposedly proving this 1-in-5 fiction), colleges and universities are implementing unconstitutional procedures mandated by the government.
The 2006 Duke lacrosse rape case fit the narrative about campuses permeated by a “rape culture.” Except there was no rape. In 2014, the University of Virginia was convulsed by a magazine’s lurid report of a rape that buttressed the narrative that fraternities foment the sexual predation supposedly pandemic in “male supremacist” America. Except there was no rape. Now, Colorado State University at Pueblo has punished the supposed rapist of a woman who says she was not raped.
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Title IX of the Education Amendments enacted in 1972 merely says no person at an institution receiving federal funds shall be subjected to discrimination on the basis of sex. From this the government has concocted a right to micromanage schools’ disciplinary procedures, mandating obvious violations of due process.
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'So here’s my challenge to Hillary Clinton: Give one speech; one, single speech without mentioning you’re a woman, or that you’re running to be the first female president. This challenge also forbids taking a non-women’s issue, like criminal justice reform, and turning it into a women’s issue because that’s really the only thing you know how to do.
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Mr. Trump also pointed out something that shows some of the privilege women in America have. He said men are now “petrified” to speak to women. This is becoming increasingly true, as the “woman’s card” gives one the right to call anyone a sexist for saying anything they find objectionable.
Men are becoming afraid to open doors for women for fear of being called a sexist, male employers are afraid to close the door when speaking to female employees for fear of being accused of harassment, and god forbid a man say “good morning” to a woman on the street…
'An admissions tsar has claimed a fall in boys going to university is due to the rise of female teachers in Britain's schools.
The 'dominance' of women taking classes is contributing to male students ending their academic careers early, says Ucas chief Mary Curnock Cook.
Ms Curnock Cook made the controversial comments in the foreword of a study that says girls are 75 per cent more likely to go on to university.
Currently there are 455,000 teachers at state schools across the country and 74 per cent are women.'
'Nine male teachers are suing their Pennsylvania school district, claiming they’re victims of an unfair and gendered pay scale that favors their female counterparts.
The federal lawsuit, filed on May 2, alleges that the Moon Area School District, located about 13 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, failed to comply with the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, and Section 1 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871.
The plaintiffs have accused the school district of hiring female teachers at higher pay levels while also giving them more credit for their prior teaching experience. The men claim their prior teaching experiences were not recognized at the same salary level.
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According to the civil complaint, all nine plaintiffs appear to have transferred from outside districts, where they worked for a varying number of years.
Article here. Jump the paywall by Googling the first paragraph text. Excerpt:
'More than a hundred Democratic party lawmakers have written to Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen complaining of a lack of diversity within the central bank system and a leadership that is “overwhelmingly and disproportionately white and male”.
The letter, signed by 11 senators and 116 representatives, calls on the Fed to do more to ensure its senior ranks reflect the country’s make-up in terms of gender, race and ethnicity, economic background and occupation. It also demands that the Fed place greater priority on securing full employment for minorities as it pursues its economic goals.'
'During the commencement address for Florida International University, Obama national security advisor Susan Rice said that there were not enough minorities in high-ranking positions and too many elite white men.
“Minorities still make up less than 20 percent of our senior diplomats, less than 15 percent of senior military officers and senior intelligence officials,” Rice said according to prepared remarks released by the White House. ” Too often, our national security workforce has been what former Florida Senator Bob Graham called ‘white, male, and Yale.’”'
'The Harvard administration’s recent decision to sanction unrecognized single-gender social organizations—including sororities and women’s final clubs—is not the result of Harvard somehow not listening to women.
It is the result of the Harvard administration after decades—after centuries—finally hearing feminist critique.
For generations, Harvard feminists and activists have advocated for the sanctioning or disbanding of final clubs. Now that we have it, new debates on gender and inclusiveness have come to the fore.
This debate recently took to the streets—or the Yard, where around 200 students, mostly women, protested the recent decision under the banner #hearherharvard. These women claim that sororities and female final clubs are spaces of female empowerment, and that pressuring them to go co-ed along with their male counterparts will exacerbate the problems of sexism the administration is trying to combat.
'The GOP-led Senate Armed Services Committee has seconded a call by its counterpart in the House to require women to register for a military draft, setting the stage for a significant cultural change triggered by the Pentagon's decision to lift all gender-based restrictions on front-line combat units.
Any justification for barring women from draft registration was erased last year when the Pentagon announced all military jobs would be open to women, the committee said late Thursday in a summary of its annual defense policy bill. Women must begin to sign up with the Selective Service beginning in January 2018, according to the committee's measure.
The committee added that the top officers in each of the military branches also expressed their support for including women in a potential draft during testimony before Congress.'
This article appeared in Australia today, after a story yesterday. A woman was sent home from work because she refused to wear high heels to her temp job, as per the dress code she'd agreed to. That story raised the ire of many and was widely criticised with the woman receiving lots of support. From today's opinion piece:
'WHEN I read the story about Nicola Thorp being sent home on her first day at PricewaterhouseCoopers, all because she refused to wear high heels for her job as a receptionist, a familiar feeling came over me.
Anger and annoyance, but not in the way you might think — I’m a man.
Women’s attire in the workplace can be a hot topic when it comes to gender discrimination discussions. This often leaves women feeling angry and upset, typically at men, for what they “have to go through”. However, I couldn’t disagree more.
Men have always been held to a higher standard when it comes to workplace attire. I remember reading the 44 page dress code for bank employees at UBS, the Swiss Bank. Men with a thin jawline should have Single Windsor tie knots, while guys with wider jaws should use a double.
Just two years ago, I would wear my suit on the train from north west Sydney to the CBD and home each day. The walk from the station on hot days would leave me sweaty and uncomfortable by the time I got to the office. When I arrived, I had to choose between keeping the coat off and letting everyone see me perspire through my shirt, or leave the jacket on to keep up appearances and turn myself into a walking sauna.
'A large group of member of the American Law Institute have written a letter in opposition to an upcoming vote that would vastly expand the definition of sexual assault in the legal system.
The letter, signed by nearly 120 members, including lawyers, judges and law professors, highlights several concerns regarding a draft model penal code that ALI members will vote to adopt on May 17. I previously wrote about issues with the draft, but was assured by an ALI member that many of my concerns have been addressed in the current version.
The ALI members who signed this letter have copies of the draft that will be voted on this month, and it turns out there are still dangerous issues that have not been addressed that will turn every sexually active American into a criminal overnight.
Last week, Harvard announced that they were cracking down on “privilege” within their student community by banning members of single-gender organizations from holding school leadership positions.
But when Harvard announced its new policy, it stressed that the sanctions applied to both male and female single-gender organizations equally, since both male and female single-gender organizations thrived on their “privilege.”
Harvard’s resident feminists claim that all-female organizations, while just as gender-biased, are beneficial to the school’s community, whereas all-male organizations are merely breeding grounds for the present and future perpetrators of sexual crime.
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