Taxpayer-funded groups seek to deny due process to students accused of rape

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'Fraternity and sorority groups are paying a former high-ranking senator to help protect their members’ due-process rights in campus rape investigations.

Sexual-assault awareness groups and universities are lobbying to deprive them of due process, using taxpayer money.

The war of words is heating up over the Safe Campus Act, introduced in July by three House Republicans, who were joined in sponsorship by two Democrats in the past several weeks.

Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., and lawyer Cleta Mitchell, an adviser to two Chi Omega fraternity chapters, promoted the Safe Campus Act in aWashington Post op-ed earlier this month. Lott is lobbying for fraternities and sororities on the issue.

They wrote that the bill “would require that law enforcement authorities have a first look at claims of sexual assault on campus” and “provide interim measures to improve student safety, due-process protections for students and student organizations, and more education to prevent such crimes.”'

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"Feminism is over, the battle is won. Time to move on"

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'It would be easy to believe from the papers these days that women have never been more oppressed. From the columnist Caitlin Moran to the comedian Bridget Christie, a new creed is preached: that we are the victims, not the victors, of the sex war. Feminists claim we are objectified by the builder’s whistle, that a strange man attempting to flirt with us is tantamount to sexual assault. Suddenly, just as it seemed we women were about to have it all, a new wave of feminists has begun to portray us as feeble-minded — unable to withstand a bad date, let alone negotiate a pay rise.

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The Crucible, Now at a Campus Near You

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'"Believe the victim"—the mantra of today's feminist anti-rape movement—is a remarkably prominent theme in Miller's play. At one point, Deputy Governor Danforth, who presides over the trials, notes that unlike "an ordinary crime," witchcraft is by its nature invisible: "Therefore, who may possibly be witness to it? The witch and the victim. None other. Now we cannot hope the witch will accuse herself; granted? Therefore, we must rely upon her victims—and they do testify." Today, advocates for "survivors" of sexual violence argue that since such crimes virtually always take place in private, especially when victim and offender know each other,  it is imperative to believe those who come forward with accusations. 

Of course, "believe the children" was also the mantra of the child abuse trials of the 1980s and early 1990s. But in those cases, the children themselves were a somewhat passive presence, more victims of adult manipulation than active accusers. Not so the girls ofThe Crucible, whom Miller made older than their 10- and 11-year-old historical counterparts—more young women than children. (Danforth and other adult authority figures in the play often refer to them as "children"; but today's anti-rape advocates, too, often use language that infantilizes young people and young women in particular, sometimes explicitly insisting that college "kids" are not really adults.) 

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Double standard? Clinton must beware accusing Sanders of sexism

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'This time around, Clinton is fully embracing her status as woman. She is vocal about sexism, misogyny, and gender inequality. However, could she take her gender battle too far?

At the Democratic National Committee's Women's Leadership Forum, Clinton subtly accused Bernie Sanders of sexism. Senator Sanders (I-VT), the populist and progressive candidate, is actually more moderate than Clinton on one single issue: Gun control. Clinton has been referencing this issue heavily in the wake of recent mass shootings, including taking a dig at Sanders at the Democratic debate on October 13. Since then, Sanders has cautioned that candidates that "all the shouting in the world" will not improve gun laws.

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How Sexual Harassment Codes Threaten Academic Freedom

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'In its zeal to spread "gender justice," the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) threatens to stifle academic freedom and infantilize women, says feminist legal expert and New York Law School Professor Nadine Strossen. At a recent talk at Harvard's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, the former American Civil Liberties Union head warned that current campus policies to curb sexual harassment are overbroad and dangerous. And while "safety"-mongering students deserve some of the blame, bureaucrats are the biggest progenitors of this paranoid style in American academia.

"By threatening to pull federal funds, the OCR has forced schools, even well-endowed schools like Harvard, to adopt sexual misconduct policies that violate many civil liberties," Strossen said.

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Women’s Groups Urge Colleges and Government to Rein In Social Media

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'Seventy-two women’s and civil-rights groups on Wednesday announced a campaign to enlist the federal government in pressuring colleges to protect students from harassment via anonymous social-media applications like Yik Yak.

The groups have sent the U.S. Education Department a letter calling for it to treat colleges’ failure to monitor anonymous social media and to pursue online harassers as a violation of federal civil-rights laws guaranteeing equal educational access.

The letter says many colleges have cited "vague First Amendment concerns" to shirk their obligation to respond to harassment, intimidation, and threatening behavior via such applications. It calls on the department’s Office for Civil Rights to require colleges to fight such online abuse by taking steps like identifying and disciplining perpetrators and creating technological barriers to the use of social-media applications that harassers favor.'

But if you read the article, you will see that what REALLY upsets them is the hostile comments on feminism.

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Gynocentrism in Men's Rights Movement - Blessing in disguise or unwarranted hurdle?

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'In a world otherwise grappled with the thoughts of male-chauvinism and privileges of being a male, a movement that talked about the issues faced by men and the need for their rights was sensational in itself.
This sensationalism took the men's rights movement in India to a much elevated platform wherein, within a very short span of time, the men's rights activists were able to sensitize the Indian parliament about some of the issues that face men and get them thinking about those issues.
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At the same time, a parallel development was taking place. Many women, who were at the receiving end of feminism and Gynocentrism in the society, resorted to men's rights movement. They took up the cause and started talking about men and their issues.

And, this gave rise to a new phenomenon which even the mainstream media showed more keenness to highlight and that phenomena was - "Women in Men's Rights Movement for the sake of brevity.

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American Academia’s War on Due Process

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'We are still, for the most part, a nation of laws, except on college campuses.

At the Heritage Foundation recently, Samantha Harris, director of policy research at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), said that “students have complained about the lack of due process” at colleges. “In the last five years, thanks to unprecedented intrusion by the federal government…due process has gotten a lot worse,” she said. Too often, accused students are left “without a hearing or [cannot] confront their accuser” in court, Harris averred. By her estimate, “more than 60 students have filed lawsuits” of unfair treatment by colleges by withholding due process.

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Gloria Steinem’s laughable excuse for feminism’s bad rep

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'Countless women refuse to call themselves “feminists,” and Gloria Steinem knows why: It’s Rush Limbaugh’s fault.

And, no, it’s not funny.

The ur-feminist stopped by “CBS This Morning” on Friday to promote her new book. Host Norah O’Donnell began by noting that Meryl Streep “doesn’t consider herself a feminist. She says she considers herself a humanist. Why is it that the feminist label do you think has that —”

Steinem broke in, rushing to insist that Streep says she’s both — and, anyway, it’s Lim­baugh who’s given feminism a bad name, because he “talks about feminazis every day.”

Sorry, Gloria: The brand turned sour long before Rush ever launched his first rant — a victim of its own leaders.'

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The phony campus rape crisis

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'In August 2012, two rapes by unknown assailants were reported at Harvard University, sending the school into crisis. Police cruisers idled around the campus; uniformed and plainclothes officers came out in force. Students were advised not to walk alone. A member of the undergraduate council called for the closing of Harvard Yard. “I thought Cambridge wasn’t a dangerous area,” a freshman told the student newspaper. “It was Harvard—it was supposed to be safe, academic.” (In fact, Harvard still was safe. The campus authorities ultimately deemed at least one of the rape allegations baseless, judging by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports. Since Harvard never disclosed the outcome of either of its investigations, its findings regarding the other supposed incident remain secret.)
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Why the disparity between administrative talk and action? Harvard, after all, is not the only college capable of forcefully responding to alleged rape. In the fall of 2014, the University of Virginia doubled down on security after a student was abducted and presumed raped (the girl was later found to have been killed). If Drew Gilpin Faust and her fellow presidents really believe that they are presiding over a crime scene of what would be unprecedented proportions, they should at the least radically revamp their admissions procedures to prevent sex fiends from joining the student body, if not provide round-the-clock protection to female students.

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Feds Have Spent More on Origami Condoms, Fat Lesbian Studies Than on Benghazi Committee

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'The amount of taxpayer funding that has gone toward the investigation into the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, is less than the amount the federal government has invested in “Origami condoms” and studies on why lesbians are obese.
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) gave$2,466,482 to Daniel Resnic to develop three versions of the Origami condom, including the “first of its kind” anal condom. Resnic was later accused of wasting the money on full-body plastic surgery, trips to Costa Rica, parties at the Playboy mansion, and patents for inventions such as “rounded corners.”

The NIH has also given $3,531,925 to researchers to determine why lesbians are obese and gay men are not. Results have included: gay men have a “greater desire for toned muscles” than straight men, lesbians have low “athletic self-esteem,” and young men think about their muscles.'

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Mom charged with deprivation of parental rights in connection to missing daughters

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'The mother of two Lakeville girls who went missing in 2013 was arrested in Florida on Sunday.

Sandra Grazzini-Rucki, 50, was charged in August in Dakota County with three counts of deprivation of parental rights in connection with the disappearance of her daughters Gianna, 15, and Samantha, 17.

The charges were not made public until Grazzini-Rucki’s arrest by U.S. Marshals early Sunday.

Detectives have learned a network of people is taking the girls and keeping them in hiding, police said. They have made a list of “persons of interest” in the case.'

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Before you complain about 'patriarchy'

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'So last week, gay conservative writer Milo Yiannopoulos declared October 18 ”World Patriarchy Day.”

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Feminist Professor: Chemically Castrate Men Who “Harass” Women

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"Chicago Professor and cultural critic Laura Kipnis – whose work has been published by Slate and the New York Times – thinks that men who “harass” women should be chemically castrated and publicly executed.

If this is what influential college professors are telling young women, is it any wonder that we’re seeing an acceleration of the Sexodus? Men checking out of dating and relationships because they’ve completely given up on approaching women.'

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Suzanne Venker: What I wanted to tell students at Williams College

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'As you know, feminism is a large umbrella for an enormous range of topics — from its signature issue, abortion, to sex and relationships, women in the workplace, marriage, divorce, domestic violence, women in the military and work-family balance.

There isn’t a person among us who doesn’t have a stake in at least one of these issues.

But they are not “women’s issues,” as the media often claim. They are everyone’s issues.

Men have opinions on these matters as well, as they should, yet their voices are rarely heard.

Same goes for women who don’t consider themselves feminists — which, for the record, is most women.

We hear from feminists the most for good reason.

A. Feminists pride themselves on being the arbiter of all things female.

B. They have the microphone. Indeed, the feminist elite run the show.

The feminist elite is comprised of left-leaning professors, journalists, writers, psychologists, actresses and lawyers whose beliefs have seeped into the culture to such a degree that anyone who takes a non-feminist view of any topic is branded either sexist or a misogynist.

This group uses their clout to bully people into silence, and the result is a lack of reasonable dialogue.

Since people don’t wish to be attacked for simply questioning an idea, they say nothing — giving feminists free reign of the conversation.

I’m sure you’ve heard a lot over the years about liberal media bias, but feminist bias is an offshoot of that — and it’s far more toxic.

As former CBS News journalist Bernard Goldberg wrote in his book "Bias," “I know a few top male producers who would rather walk barefoot on cut glass while drinking Drano than have to face the Missus back home after giving the green light to a story on the excesses of feminism.”

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