Article here. Didn't their plan also include murdering her husband? How soon we forget. And what a pathetic gender card approach to her rationalizations. Hope they toss the key. Excerpt:

'Joyce Mitchell, the upstate prison worker who aided the escape of two murderers in June, said she was going through depression and “got in over my head” when she conspired with the two men.

Mitchell, in her first public comments, told NBC’s Matt Lauer that she loves her husband, but got swept up in the allure of helping inmates David Sweat and Richard Matt, who she was believed to be having an affair with inside the prison.

“I know it’s hard to believe. But I do love my husband. And I’ve always loved my husband. I just– I was going through a point in my life — a lot of people go through depression,” Mitchell said, according to excerpts released Friday by NBC. “A lot of people go through that. And I just got in over my head. And I couldn’t get out.”'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A young man from Indiana who had consensual sex with a 14-year-old girl who told him she was older has been removed from Michigan's sex offender registry pending his resentencing.

Zach Anderson, a 20-year-old Elkhart, Indiana, resident, spent 75 days in jail after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor.

He was given a five-year probation that banned him from using computers or the Internet and also had faced 25 years on Michigan's sex-offender registry.

But the conditions of that sentence no longer apply due to last week's decision to order a new sentence for Anderson, Berrien County Trial Court Judge Angela Pasula said at a bond hearing on Friday.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Colorado Congressman Jared Polis' comments about expelling students merely accused of sexual assault weren't just an affront to the American justice system, they were also incoherent.

At his Washington Post blog "The Volokh Conspiracy," Eugene Volokh summed up Polis' view: "If there are 10 people who have been accused, and under a reasonable likelihood standard maybe one or two did it, it seems better to get rid of all 10 people."

Volokh, a professor of free speech law, wrote that while a "whiff of suspicion" may sometimes be enough to remove someone from his or her current position, he "just hadn't thought that being a college student would or should be one of them."

Polis had followed up his statement about expelling students with the claim that "We're not talking about depriving them of life or liberty, we're talking about them being transferred to another university, for crying out loud."

Article here. Excerpt:

'There has been a great deal of outrage over the past couple of weeks regarding the alleged discrimination between male victims of child sexual abuse and female victims.

The main argument seems to be that recent abuse against young boys only resulted in the abuser receiving weekend work detention. Abusers of young girls, in contrast, have received hundreds of years behind bars. This implies that the judicial system must not care about young boys.

But what if the gender discrimination is placed on the wrong side of the equation?

It was former Baltimore Ravens cheerleader Molly Shattuck's case that seemed to spark interest in this phenomenon. Shattuck was sentenced to 48 weekends at a work detention facility — spread out over the next two years — for statutory rape against a 15-year-old boy. Shattuck had performed oral sex on the boy, who was a friend of her own son.

Article here. Excerpt:

'We’re not new to studying women in science. Nor are we insensitive to the prejudice some women experience in academic science.

For the past decade, we have researched some of the challenges female scientists face that their male counterparts often don’t, such as balancing work and life demands like child care (see our 2012 article in American Scientist). Our guiding principle has been to follow the data wherever it takes us. We have found, for example, that women and men have comparable rates of success with grant and article submissions, and that affirmative action doesn’t lead to a preference for less-competent women (forthcoming), and that women have a harder time getting tenure in biology and psychology and are less satisfied with their jobs than men in the social sciences.

However, none of those findings have aroused the passions that our most recent research has. In a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we published an article on data from five national studies that took us to an unexpected destination. The data showed that, in tenure-track hiring, faculty prefer female job candidates over identically qualified male ones.

Because that finding runs counter to claims of sexist hiring, it was met in the news media and in academe with incredulity and often panic. We have responded to those criticisms in five pieces in the Huffington Post (parts one, two, three, four, and five), as well as another essay in American Scientist and one on the website of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Article here. Excerpt:

'For Sabrina Rubin Erdely, it’s all about her.

The disgraced author of a retracted Rolling Stone article about a gang-rape at the University of Virginia reportedly sobbed to one of her sources in the weeks after the story fell apart. But Erdely wasn’t upset because her 9,000-word piece, “A Rape on Campus,” had falsely accused a UVA fraternity of a gruesome gang-rape of a female student.

Instead, Erdely was worried about her career.

"She started bawling and said, ‘I am going to lose my job,'” Alex Pinkelton, a source of Erdely’s, told Vanity Fair in a new tick-tock about the fallout from the article.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Last fall at Oberlin College, a talk held as part of Latino Heritage Month was scheduled on the same evening that intramural soccer games were held. As a result, soccer players communicated by email about their respective plans. “Hey, that talk looks pretty great,” a white student wrote to a Hispanic student, “but on the off chance you aren’t going or would rather play futbol instead the club team wants to go!!”

Unbeknownst to the white student, the Hispanic student was offended by the email. And her response signals the rise of a new moral culture America.

Story here. Well it's "some justice," I suppose. Excerpt:

'A Sacramento federal judge ruled Wednesday that an early-release program for female inmates in California’s prisons is unconstitutional and must be expanded to include male inmates.

“When the state draws a line between two classes of persons, and denies one of those classes a right as fundamental as physical freedom, that action survives equal protection review only if the state has a sufficient justification for the classification. Here, the state does not,” U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. declared in a 35-page order.

The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation “shall immediately cease denying admission to the (Alternative Custody Program) on the basis that an applicant is male,” the judge ordered.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Are you a man who majored in business because it interested you or because you felt it would lead to a great career? That may be an unhealthy form of masculinity, according to a series of seminars coming next week from the Vanderbilt University Women's Center.

Yes, you read that correctly: A women's center seems to be telling men how they should and should not behave. Imagine the outrage if a male-dominated group attempted to tell women how they should and should not behave. You don't have to imagine, just remember all the anger that comes whenever a man speaks up about abortion. (Well, this actually happens only to the men who don't agree with feminists on abortion.)'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Benjamin Banneker Academic High School has an abundance of college-level classes and one of the highest graduation rates in the District. It’s also overwhelming female. Three out of four Banneker students last school year were girls.

Banneker is not the only high-performing District high school that serves mostly girls. Duke Ellington School of the Arts, which offers both arts and academic enrichment, was 67 percent female in 2014-2015, according to school data. And School Without Walls, where some students take classes at nearby George Washington University, was 60 percent female.

Article here. Excetpt:

'Young men considering college may want to look at safer pastimes, like race car driving. Colleges are hell-bent on penalizing the male gender.

So far their efforts have not held up in court, yet.

“In four recent cases, judges have overturned sexual assault findings by campus disciplinary committees,” Gina Lauterio of Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE) noted late last month. “In each case, the judges ruled the college proceedings lacked necessary due process protections. As the new academic year begins, these judicial decisions highlight the need for renewed focus on fairness in college sex assault cases, SAVE says.”'

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'People who perform an ultra-Orthodox Jewish circumcision suction ritual will no longer have to get parents to sign acknowledgements of potential health risks, the city Board of Health decided Wednesday, reversing a policy that pitted health officials against religious leaders over a practice that dates to biblical times.

The vote formalized a tentative policy shift Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration made in February. The city now distributes information about what officials see as possible risks of oral suction circumcision, but signed consent forms are no longer required.

"The Board of Health, from the start, aimed to ensure that parents had information so that they could make informed decisions," Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett said Wednesday, adding that the consent requirement "hadn't been that effective."

Article here. Excerpt:

'The University of California may explicitly recognize a right for students to not be offended, if a resolution under consideration is approved by the board of regents next week.
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"Articulating a view that people with various intellectual disabilities are incapable of various intellectual tasks, or people with various physical disabilities are incapable of various physical tasks, would be condemned by the authority of the University,” he writes. “Saying that illegal aliens (or noncitizens who are legally here) ought not be appointed to be, say, the student member of the Board of Regents — likewise condemned.”

Article here. Excerpt:

'Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has doubled down on his assertion that all combat jobs should be opened to women in the wake of a new study showing that all-male Marine control groups outperformed those with women in nearly every infantry task.

Mabus spoke to David Greene at NPR a day after Marine officials revealed findings from a nine-month infantry experiment that assessed the performance of male and female Marine volunteers during physically demanding ground combat tasks. A summary of data showed that mixed-gender teams completed tasks more slowly and shot with less accuracy, and that women sustained injuries at more than twice the rate of their male counterparts.

In his radio interview, Mabus suggested the Marines' study was flawed due to the caliber and mindset of the volunteer participants.

Article here. Excerpt:

'When Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., suggested yesterday that colleges be allowed to expel students accused of rape even when they were only 20 percent sure those students were guilty, he was applauded in the subcommittee hearing room.

The reaction outside of Rayburn 2261, though, was swift and vituperative. Perhaps the group with the most moral authority to rebuke Polis was Families Advocating Campus Equality.

Founded by three mothers of sons who were falsely accused of rape at their respective colleges, FACE has ample experience with campus disciplinary proceedings that are identified as “educational” by administrators but Kafkaesque by the accused and their loved ones.'