Story here. Need I mention the what-if around the victims being girls and not boys? Excerpt:

'The victims of child-molesting priests are partly to blame for their own abuse, the bishop of Syracuse said in a sworn deposition that revealed his views on the church's sex abuse scandal.

Bishop Robert Cunningham testified in a 2011 deposition in response to a federal lawsuit filed by a man who said a priest in the Syracuse diocese sexually abused him as a child.

The man's lawyer asked Cunningham whether, in the eyes of the church, a child molested by a priest has committed a sin.

"The boy is culpable," Cunningham said Oct. 14, 2011, according to a transcript of the deposition.

His sworn testimony provides rare insight into the thoughts of the highest-ranking Catholic in Syracuse about one of the most troubling chapters in the church's history.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'The sex-and-drugs case of John Doe v. Reed College took a peculiar turn this week when a federal judge ordered the school to turn over nearly seven years of student disciplinary files to lawyers in the case.

U.S. District Judge Michael W. Mosman's five-page order Tuesday spells out specific records sought about current and former Reed students, including those accused of violating the school's Honor Principle, Sexual Harassment Policy, Discriminatory Harassment and Sexual Misconduct Policy or Alcohol and Other Drugs Policy.

It's not clear how many records that might include. But the school tallied more than 800 crime reports on campus for drug, alcohol and sexual violence during a three-year period ending in 2013, according to Reed's website.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Spenst Hansen knows better than to take his body for granted.

Born in the midst of his parents' divorce, the 24-year-old Salt Laker was, of course, a major sticking point in the split. More surprisingly, so was his circumcision status.

"My mother and her side of the family really wanted to get [the procedure] done—so much so, apparently, that they were threatening to get it done behind my father's back," Hansen says. "My father was very adamant and very passionate about letting me keep my whole and unaltered body. From what I understand, he actually put out a court-ordered cease and desist for every pediatrician in the state."'

Story here. Excerpt:

'PCSO deputies arrested 44-year-old Consuelo Gallegos-Bias of Mulberry, who is a PCSO deputy sheriff, and charged her with one count Battery Domestic Violence (M-1), one count Resisting Officer Without Violence (M-1), and one count Tampering With Evidence (F-3).

According to the affidavit, PCSO was contacted by Gallegos-Bias’ adult son after he heard an argument between his parents that occurred in the master bedroom. According to the son and two other family member witnesses who were in the home at the time, the suspect was verbally arguing with the victim in the master bedroom, which escalated into the two of them wrestling over a firearm on the floor. The firearm was discharged into a piece of bedroom furniture and nobody was injured. The suspect then battered the victim by hitting him in the head. The victim sought assistance from the witnesses, who called PCSO.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Some believe the service fired an opening shot in the battle on June 30,when it sacked the head of the recruit battalion at Parris Island, S.C., where all enlisted women are made into Marines. During her year in command, Lt. Col. Kate Germano irked her boss as she pushed for tougher standards for female recruits — and boosted their performance.

Before she was fired for what the Corps described as toxic leadership, abuse of authority and poor “playground skills,” Germano had lobbied for the dismantling of the service’s current system of gender-segregated boot camp instruction.

She thinks the Corps should reinstate its old methods that had men and women shoulder-to-shoulder during basic training, tackling the hikes, obstacle courses and classroom lectures together, as recruits do today in all of the nation’s other military services.

Article here. Excerpt:

'One in four.

That is the amount of women who are assaulted on college campuses. Look around you. Twenty-five percent of the women on Saint Joseph’s University campus could be a part of this statistic.

St. Joe’s, however, is trying to combat this staggering statistic. With an updated sexual misconduct policy and required faculty and staff training on the new policies, the university is taking steps toward preventing assaults on campus.

While this is a good step forward, it seems as though they are only implementing faculty training because they have to. An email sent out by the Saint Joseph’s Human Resources Office stated, “…to comply with what is now an expectation (rather than a suggestion) under recent changes in federal law, we will provide live training on these revised policies and procedures…” This statement makes it seem as though the university is none too enthusiastic about the prospect of this training.

Article here. Excerpt:

'“Don’t Be That Guy,” a new campaign from UW-Madison Police designed to grab young men’s attention and remind them that sexual assault is not OK, is getting mixed reviews on campus.

The campaign uses provocative images — like a passed-out young woman — on posters now dotting campus to drive home its message.

UWPD spokesman Marc Lovicott said the campaign, launched in August, is intended to move the focus of anti-sex assault messages from women’s behavior to men’s. A past campaign, for example, urged women to report assaults, he said.

“One thing we heard is that everybody always focuses on the victims," Lovicott said. "Why not focus on the perpetrators?”

The UWPD modeled the campaign after similar campaigns in Canada and the United Kingdom. Only a handful of police departments in the United States have experimented with a version of “Don’t Be That Guy,” said a department news release.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The other evening, I attended an excellent London Thinks debate on free speech – or rather, the apparent lack of it, through “safe spaces” – on British university campuses.

It was a night of much eyebrow-raising, but the sharpest intake of breath was reserved for a comment made by a certain Ms Bahar Mustafa.

Sharp-minded readers may recall how, last April, Mustafa, 27, the Welfare and Diversity Officer at London’s Goldsmiths University, Comment and launched the controversial Twitter hashtag #KillAllWhiteMen, which she later claimed was merely a joke.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Erin Buzuvis, director of Western New England University School of Law's Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Christina Hoff Sommers, author of several books and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, traded prepared remarks and answered questions about Title IX — the 1972 law that prohibits discrimination in federally funded education based on sex — as well as modern feminism and current campus issues.

The debate, sponsored by CNU's Center for American Studies, drew a near capacity crowd of students in Ferguson Center for the Arts' Music and Theater Hall. Since gaining its official holiday status in 2004, Constitution Day has required institutions that receive federal funding to provide educational programming related to the constitution.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Here’s my prediction – the facts that: a) men are underrepresented in graduate school enrollment overall (100 men were enrolled in 2014 for every 136.4 women), b) men received fewer master’s (41% of the total) and doctoral degrees (47.8% of the total) than women in 2014, and c) men were underrepresented in 7 out of 11 graduate fields of study at both the master’s and doctoral levels last year will get no attention at all from feminists, gender activists, women’s centers, the media, universities, and anybody in the higher education industry.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Harvard Law School professor Jeannie C. Suk argued at a forum in New York this week that the criminal court system, not campus resources, should investigate and adjudicate cases of alleged sexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape.

At the forum—hosted by Intelligence Squared Debates and titled “Courts, Not Campuses, Should Decide Sexual Assault Cases”—Suk and Yale Law School professor Jeb Rubenfeld argued in favor of the motion. Michelle Anderson, the dean of City University New York School of Law, and Stephen Schulhofer, a professor at New York University School of Law, argued in favor of university involvement in the contentious issue.

"What campuses are doing under pressure from the Department of Education is hurting the cause of gender equality,” Suk argued during an opening statement. “Campus tribunals use procedures that lack basic fairness and often reach inaccurate outcomes.”'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A federal judge on Thursday ordered Middlebury College to reinstate a student who had been expelled over alleged sexual misconduct during a study-abroad trip last year, the Associated Press reports, citing court documents.

The student, identified only as John Doe, was initially exonerated by the School for International Training, which ran the study-abroad program, in an unnamed foreign country, in which both John Doe and his alleged victim took part. Unhappy with the school’s findings, the victim, identified as Jane Doe, said she intended to file a complaint with the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, which is already investigating more than 100 collegesover their response to reports of sexual misconduct on their campuses.'

Thank you for telling U.S. Representative Jared Polis on Monday that it's wrong to expel innocence students.

As you may recall, Rep. Polis stated that a student should be expelled if there is only a 20% chance he is guilty.

He has since apologized! http://www.dailycamera.com/guest-opinions/ci_28818663/jared-polis-colleges-should-handle-sex-assault-cases

In his apology, however, he states that 1 in 5 female students in the class of 2019 will be assaulted or raped. Perhaps Polis likes the number "20%," but we know this number has been debunked: http://www.saveservices.org/sexual-assault/myths/

We want you to contact Rep. Polis again and tell him that he needs to look at facts before advocating for sexual assault policy changes. To do otherwise is dangerous and unprofessional.

Article here. Excerpt:

'A women’s and gender studies lecturer at North Carolina State University is docking her students’ grades for using “sexist language” in class assignments.

What’s sexist? “Generalized pronouns,” according to a portion of a syllabus obtained by The College Fix.

The directive is aimed at students in Nancy Bishop’s online class “Women and Poverty.”

“Thanks to evolution, generalized pronouns and other biased references are no longer acceptable in any class,” the syllabus reads in a section on “Non-Sexist Language.”

“You may NOT use ‘he’ or ‘him’ or ‘man’ to refer to both men and women,” it continues. Bishop tells students they can replace “mankind” with “humans” or “humankind,” and should write “she or he” instead of just “he,” though the syllabus is unclear on whether students should always lead with a female pronoun.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A 10-year-old boy in the Bronx, New York, was allegedly assaulted by a woman for having bad “manners.”

Mohammed Almontsire told WABC-TV that he went back into his father’s deli to get a bag that he had left there earlier. That’s where a woman, who police are now looking for, ordered the fifth grader to say “thank you.” But Almontsire refused.

“She slapped me two times. I punched one time,” Mohammed said.

The boy claimed the woman also used “bad words.”

Ibrahim Almontsir, the boy’s father, later saw surveillance footage of the incident and said it was “indescribable” to watch his son being “chased and beat up.”

“The way she punches him around, he was very helpless,” the father added.'