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'Kgosi Tumelo Puleng of Letlhakeng says time is nigh for men to shed their bad boy image of associating with undesirable practices in society and to learn to be more responsible.

Giving welcome remarks at the Kweneng West MenCare graduation ceremony in Letlhakeng on Saturday August 15, Kgosi Puleng said for a long time, men had been associated with societal ills such as abuse, rape, incest as well as drug abuse.

“This is even evidenced by the fact that men’s prisons are always filled to capacity as compared to women’s prisons,” he said. He said men were also known to be slow on issues of sexual reproductive health as well as advocacy for gender equality.

“Such concerns as the reluctance to test for HIV and AIDS as well as unwillingness to participate in initiatives meant to address societal ills like abuse gives the impression that they are the perpetrators. So it is up to men to stand up and clear their image by meaningfully participating in these initiatives,” he said.

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'Bryce Dixon, a football player who was expelled from the University of Southern California for sexual assault, should resume classes and might be able to rejoin the team, a judge has ruled.

On Wednesday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert H. O’Brien barred USC from carrying out the expulsion on the grounds that the university’s sexual assault adjudication process was miserably unfair to accused students.

Bryce’s attorney, Mark Hathaway, released the following statement:

“Judge O’Brien agreed with Bryce that USC’s Title IX sexual misconduct investigation was unfair and lacks due process.” said Mark Hathaway, attorney for Bryce Dixon. “USC’s investigator acts as police, prosecutor, and judge. There is no hearing, no right to counsel, no rules of evidence, no presumption of innocence, and no right to confront witnesses. Courts are beginning to recognize the injustice imposed on students.”'

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'Considering campus sexual assault disciplinary issues, courts and legislators are beginning to emphasize due process requirements, including fairness protections for those accused that conceivably contradict protections aimed at preventing sexual violence. In addition to pending federal legislation on campus sexual misconduct, including sexual assault, 29 states have introduced or passed their own bills on the topic; virtually all of this legislation includes some nod to fairness as well as prevention provisions, such as the “yes means yes” laws passed in California and New York. Balancing those due process and complainant protections requires careful navigation of legal requirements.

Three recent cases emphasize potential challenges, with favorable outcomes for student-respondents in California, Tennessee and Virginia.'

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'This case arises amidst a growing national controversy about the responses of colleges and universities to alleged sexual violence on college and university campuses.

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'This afternoon multiple bomb threats were called in to a Society of Professional Journalists debate about GamerGate. I’ve been passed the remarks my fellow panellist, AEI scholar and feminist academic Christina Hoff Sommers, was planning to make.

A video game journalist from Vancouver recently took to Twitter to draw attention to a Tweet sent by a gamer: The gamer had tweeted: “I fucking swear—they get rid of Huge Boobs, I’m gone.” For this journalist those 11 words captured the essence of the gamer crusade. The hypermasculine dudebro attitude–— the crude objectification of women. It’s all there. Or so it seemed to him. As he put it: “#Gamergate summarized in one impossibly perfect tweet.”

But as is often the case with media accounts of GamerGate– the facts don’t really fit the narrative. First of all, the author was not talking about video games, but rather efforts to censor images of buxom ladies on Reddit. But more importantly—the author of the tweet is a young woman named Alison. Alison is a lesbian gamer who apparently enjoys gazing at images of busty women. For me, it is the game journalist’s tweet, not Allison’s, that is emblematic. It is an impossibly perfect illustration of a serious flaw in contemporary journalism: the narrative matters more than truth. The Rolling Stone’s apocryphal story about a gang rape at UVA is frequently cited as the classic example of narrative over-reach. But the press literature on GamerGate is strikingly similar.

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'The Society of Professional Journalists’ debate on the GamerGate controversy had to be evacuated earlier today after the venue hosting the event was targeted by multiple bomb threats.

Police arrived at the venue shortly after 2pm, interrupting a panel discussing how the media should cover GamerGate, a movement calling for improved standards in video games journalism, as well as other amorphous online movements.

The afternoon panel featured Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos, Reason contributing editor Cathy Young and Christina Hoff Sommers, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Also present on the panel were independent game developer Derek Smart, Poynter Institute educator Ren LaFome, and prospective SPJ president Lynn Walsh.

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'An 81-year-old woman was killed with a hammer at the hands of her daughter after an argument Thursday in the Sunnyvale home they shared, police said.

Linde Adrienne Smith, 50, was arrested and booked into the Santa Clara County jail on suspicion of murder after the afternoon slaying at their home in the Plaza del Rey mobile-home park off Tasman Drive and Lawrence Expressway.

Smith was the person who called police around 12:50 p.m. to report what would soon be classified as the city's first homicide of the year, according to the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety.

Officers arrived, searched their home and made the gruesome discovery: the body of Anne Frances Smith with blunt-force injuries, alongside a hammer that is believed to be the weapon used, Capt. Jeffrey Hunter said.'

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'A national prosecutors’ group is backing a congressional proposal that would upend the handling of campus sexual assault cases, saying universities need to consult police before adjudicating and punishing potentially criminal offenses.

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'His public university’s orientation, for example, included “an interactive theater experience focused on diversity and inclusiveness,” comprising “four skits, each addressing a cardinal sin of the liberal perspective—racism, sexism, heterosexism, and class politics,”according to Dent, who detailed his experience in an essay for the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy.

“The skits set forth various scenarios,” Dent notes. “The first showed an Indian woman talking to a white friend, who unintentionally acted racist. In another, a man aggressively flirted with a woman who was clearly uncomfortable. The next skit showed two friends asking another friend of lesser means to go out to lunch and immediately assuming he had the means to do so. The final skit showed a gay man react with offense at the use of the word ‘gay’ as a derogatory term.”

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'Yvette Cooper launched a scathing attack on Labour leadership front-runner Jeremy Corbyn yesterday and claimed the party should no longer be run by ‘white men’.

The Shadow Home Secretary insisted she was the ‘real radical’ and made the case to be Labour’s first woman leader – saying the party needed a ‘feminist approach to our economy and society’.

She hit out at the prospect of ‘a Labour Party after a century of championing equality and diversity which turns the clock back to be led again by a leader and deputy leader, both white men. Who’s the real radical? Jeremy or me?’

Former minister Tom Watson is widely expected to win the deputy leadership under Mr Corbyn.'

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'A judge overturned the expulsion of Corey Mock—a University of Tennessee at Chattanooga student and star wrestler—after determining that UT’s administration had improperly required Mock to prove that he was innocent of sexually assaulting another student.

The decision is a significant blow to the concept of affirmative consent. According to Judge Carol McCoy, UT’s consent standard wrongfully shifted the burden of proof and violated Mock’s due process rights.

Mock’s expulsion stemmed from a sexual encounter with a fellow student, Molly Morris, during the spring of 2014. Morris and Mock had met online and quickly become friends; they hung out on several occasions and decided to attend a house party together. Morris had too much to drink—someone might have slipped her something, though no evidence established this—and went to the bathroom to be sick. Mock found her, took her to a bedroom, and they had sex.

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'This should terrify any parent whose son is about to head off to college or is presently matriculating anywhere in the Ivory Towers of academia.

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'It sounds like every new parent’s worst nightmare when sending their newborn son off to have a circumcision. An 8-day-old baby’s penis was reattached after a circumcision went wrong, reports Israel Hayom.

The publication calls the circumcision a brit, which is also termed the “Brit Milah,” according to Chabad. It’s a ceremony that represents one of the oldest and most revered practices of Judaism — practiced by those of Jewish heritage and also by certain Christians who don’t normally term it a “brit” or “bris” ceremony. Either way, circumcision usually only involves foreskin removal and holds a deep spiritual significance for those who view it as more than a surgery to help with genital cleanliness.

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'Are businesses that cater to women inherently anti-male?

Entrepreneur Stephanie Burns would say no. Burns runs Chic CEO, a startup that hosts networking events and provides online resources for female entrepreneurs.

But three men's rights activists didn't see her services as benevolent. They sued her for being denied entry to an event in San Diego.

The lawsuit cites a California law called the Unruh Civil Rights Act,enacted in 1959, which prohibits businesses from discriminating based on factors such as sex, race, religion and disabilities.

Burns told CNNMoney that men are allowed to attend her events, but that particular one was at capacity. But Chic CEO's promotional materials -- which all catered to women -- were fuel for the lawsuit. The event was described as a "fun, relaxed environment to meet up with entrepreneurs, mompreneurs, CEOs, directors, savvy business women."