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'Former Oregon player Brandon Austin filed a $7.5 million lawsuit against the school and four administrators alleging they damaged his prospects of playing in the NBA.

Austin was among three Oregon players who were kicked off the team and barred from campus after a woman accused them of rape last year.

In the lawsuit filed Thursday in Lane County Circuit Court, lawyers for Austin say he was wrongly accused and was denied a chance to adequately defend himself in university disciplinary proceedings.

Lane County prosecutors declined to charge the players following the March 2014 incident, saying there was insufficient evidence. The players say the sexual encounter at an off-campus party was consensual.

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'Gillibrand and McCaskill are optimistic about their own legislation -- the Campus Accountability and Safety Act – will be included in a reauthorization of the Higher Education Act that a Senate committee plans to act on later this year.

McCaskill said the bill protects due process for those accused of sexual assault and addresses the same concerns the Salmon bill addresses without handcuffing colleges' ability to take swift disciplinary action under Title IX.

“The prosecution process is about depriving someone of their liberty, putting them in prison, labeling them a sex offender for the rest of their life,’’ she said. “The Title IX process is for campus safety and it is a much different kind of process and should be treated much differently.’’ Criminal investigations can be lengthy, she said. Title IX bars sex discrimination in education.'

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Philip Davies is a highly-regarded Conservative MP, and virtually unique among 600+ MPs for raising men's issues in parliament from time to time.

Also see: Labour MP Jess Phillips apologises for telling Diane Abbott to 'f*** off'

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'Selective Service for men has largely gone unnoticed, even while women have fought for equality in all other aspects of society. We have said — and proved — that "women can do anything men can do." Now we have to be willing to accept all the responsibility that equality brings.

As our society moves toward becoming more gender neutral, even at Target, the burdens that men have always shouldered should now become women's, too. That's equality.

Through Selective Service, our government operates on the idea that an unwilling male soldier is better than even a willing female one. Are feminists really okay with this?

• So you're in favor of Selective Service?

Actually, I'm not.

• So why do you want to force our daughters to do something that you don't even want your sons to do?

Selective Service goes under the radar because society and lawmakers are not ready to deal with the issue of drafting women. It's a political no-win. Asking the question alone creates all sorts of problems for the "war on women" argument.

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'A small advisory group called DACOWITS -- the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services -- makes regular reports on such issues directly to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, and has advised him to ask Congress to change the Military Selective Service Act to require women to register for the draft.

“I think [Congress] would either be faced with disbanding Selective Service and the requirement to register for the draft, or they would be required for women to sign up,” said Colorado Congressman Mike Coffman, who sits on the House Armed Services Committee.

Coffman, a volunteer soldier who served alongside draftees in the Vietnam era, favors getting rid of the draft altogether and introduced legislation to do that earlier this year.

But others advocate opening the draft to both genders.

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'A bill recently introduced in Congress would change the way sexual assault investigations are conducted at universities nationwide – including the University of Texas at Austin.

Supporters say it will strengthen the due process rights of students who are accused of sexual assault.

But many UT Austin students are voicing their concerns. Student Government passed resolution A.R. 14, in opposition to H.R. 3403, also known as the Safe Campus Act.

If the bill is passed, victims of sexual assault will have to decide whether or not they want law enforcement involved in their case. That decision could impact how or if their case is investigated at all.'

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'An extraordinary thing happened in the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday. A member of the seven-strong Backbench Business Committee burst out laughing at the suggestion that MPs should be allowed to debate a range of gender issues including domestic violence, suicide and premature mortality rates.

In an age when offending the sensibilities of anti-sexism campaigners can cause Nobel laureates to be sacked and drive astrophysicists with unfortunate dress sense to tears of redemption, it’s a miracle there hasn’t been another hysterical lynching in the court of public opinion.

At least it would be if it were a male politician caught on camera chortling at the suggestion that parliament should discuss issues like violence against women, breast cancer screening and eating disorders.

The reason the media hasn’t grabbed hold of SniggerGate yet, is that the sniggering MP is female and the gendered problems she appears to find funny are issues that disproportionately affect men and boys.'

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'A WOMAN with a personality disorder who made a false rape allegation against a man she was angry with has been given a suspended sentence.

At the end of a brief relationship Sarah Eastwood (34) had told the man: “You messed with the wrong person, I will get you sorted out.” She later alleged he raped her in a city centre pub toilet.

The man was never arrested but was interviewed by gardaí during an extensive investigation. He had not been in the city that night and recovery of large amount of CCTV disproved the allegation.

Eastwood, of Judge Darleys Hostel, Parkgate Street, Dublin pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to two counts of knowingly making a false report during garda interviews at Store Street and Pearse Street garda stations on dates between June and August 2013. She had no previous convictions.'

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'A newly-released video shows that New York students remain confused about the implications of a new affirmative consent law that dramatically changes how they are expected to act in sexual situations.

Under a New York law enacted last summer at the urging of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, all colleges receiving state funds are required to handle sexual assault complaints using the standard of “affirmative consent.” This standard, also known as “yes means yes,” means that a student commits sexual assault if they do not receive explicit approval for every sexual act they engage in, from kissing to intercourse. This policy stands in contrast to current criminal law (sometimes called “no means no”), where sexual assault occurs when a person explicitly refuses to consent and is ignored or overpowered.

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'Women, know your place. And that place is in the boardrooms of Britain’s biggest companies.

A new Government-backed report from Lord Mervyn Davies has called for a target of at least a third of boardroom positions at FTSE 350 companies to be held by women by the end of the decade.

Lord Davies, who has been championing gender equality in the boardroom, stopped short of calling for quotas for the number of women in directorships but he hailed the “near revolution which has taken place in the boardroom and profound culture change at the heart of British business”.

And it is indeed nothing short of a revolution, with 26 per cent of board members at leading companies now being of the female persuasion – more than double the figure just four years ago.
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If David Cameron genuinely believes that institutions benefit from having a balance of men and women working in them, then he would do well to look beyond the boardroom to the classroom.

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'In the four decades since Congress passed Title IX (the federal law against sex discrimination in education), the measure’s results have grown increasingly perverse. From its inception, the law started to weaken men’s athletics in the name of the great goddess Equality – despite the fact that sports matter much more to men than they do to women. After Obama’s election, the Department of Education began using Title IX to mandate date rape courts of injustice. And just this month, liberal groups have begun screaming “Title IX” to try to purge America’s campuses of speech that offends them.

Title IX has become a catch-all bludgeon for imposing feminist ideology on American universities. The threat of withdrawn federal funds – not to mention punitive damages – cows colleges into submitting, sometimes with great reluctance, to these socially destructive directives. But even conservatives seem to have forgotten that Title IX is just a law – a law like any other.

It’s time to repeal Title IX.'

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'Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) called out national fraternity and sorority groups for lobbying to support a bill that would limit college sexual assault investigations. 

Taking aim at the North-American Interfraternity Conference and the National Panhellenic Conference, the senators held a special phone call with reporters on Thursday to declare the groups' support of the Safe Campus Act "misguided." 

The Safe Campus Act would block colleges from taking action on reports of sexual assault unless the alleged victim also reports the attack to police. The requirement would not apply to any other form of misconduct.

"Keep in mind, they have only carved out this exception for sexual assault -- not any of the other violent crimes," McCaskill said. "So a young woman could be robbed at gunpoint, decide she wanted to just try to get that person off campus and go to their university ... but if she was raped, she would not be able to do that unless she went to the police."

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) posted a draft research plan on screening for prostate cancer. The draft research plan is available for review and public comment from October 29, 2015 to November 25, 2015. To review the draft research plan and submit comments, go to: http://bit.ly/1LEu5g3

The USPSTF is the organization responsive for the recommendation against prostate cancer screening.  Their May 2012 recommendation reads:

"The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends against prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-based screening for prostate cancer."

This recommendation has caused massive controversy throughout our health care system.  We ask you to post your comments on the USPSTF website, at: http://bit.ly/1LEu5g3

Whether you agree with their 2012 finding or not, our prostate cancer community needs to be heard.  This new research project gives all of us an opportunity to influence the outcome of prostate cancer screening in the United States.

Even if you don't know anything about research or the PSA test, it will be helpful to let the USPSTF know that prostate cancer patients and family members like you are keeping a watch on their work. 

There are ten questions for you to comment on, spread over ten pages.  For example, on page three, you are asked to comment, What are the harms of PSA-based screening for prostate cancer?  You can select a multiple choice response and have the option to write one or several sentences with your personal thoughts. It takes about ten minutes or less to run through the pages, so please go to: http://bit.ly/1LEu5g3

Please let us know if you commented and or if you have any questions. You can email me directly at darryl@malecare.org

Best regards,

Darryl Mitteldorf, LCSW 
Executive Director
Malecare
Men fighting cancer, together. 
www.malecare.org 

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'Until recently, the idea of consent was associated with acts that are voluntary, free of coercion or compulsion. As theOxford English Dictionary puts it, consent is a ‘voluntary agreement to or acquiescence in what another proposes or desires’. It is ironic, therefore, that advocates of so-called consent workshops in universities want to make them, well, non-consensual. As one supporter of consent classes said: ‘It’s crucial they’re compulsory or the people who need to go won’t go.’

It seems those demanding that consent workshops be made compulsory have little understanding of the idea of consent. But then, these workshops aren’t really about the meaning of consent. Rather, they are informed by a desire to police intimacy and to moralise about student behaviour.

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'Jay Cheshire was cleared of rape in June. Allegations made against the 17-year old were withdrawn by the complainant just weeks after being filed, resulting in the investigation being closed. Yet, two weeks after the teenager was acquitted of the charge - and with his adult life still ahead of him - Jay was discovered hanging from a tree in his local park.

According to coroner Grahame Short, Jay was a sensitive young man who had "found it difficult to cope with the police investigation" - a conclusion reiterated by the boy's mum, Karin, who said of the accuser: "She accused him of rape and said he was a sexual offender. He was absolutely distraught."

To prosecute an individual for rape - or indeed sexual harassment of any type - is notoriously difficult. However, since the tragic events surrounding the death of Jay Cheshire, thoseopposed to the current laws and practices concerning sexual harassment have become increasingly active in voicing their criticism of the system.'