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'Johnson is best known for his book analyzing the Duke lacrosse rape case with National Journal‘s Stuart Taylor, but you’d think he was Joe Pesci going up against a cartoonish Southern prosecutor to defend “two yoots” against Dixieland justice.

Two of the university’s student publications, The Post and The New Political, live-tweeted the circus around Johnson’s talk, including the heavy security presence.
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"As Johnson approached the podium, members of Student Union and F*ckrapeculture stood from their seats and turned to the crowd of around 70 people in the Baker Center. They wore hand-made shirts saying “RAPE IS REAL, THIS IS BULLSH*T”, and some members held signs saying “SEX WITHOUT CONSENT IS ALWAYS RAPE” and “1 in 5 women will be SEXUALLY ASSAULTED during college”.

The protesters sat down after some members of the audience audibly complained that they could not see Johnson and after a warning of their removal by the police."
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Johnson took it all in stride, telling The New Political after the lecture:

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'Harvard Law School to the rape-hysteria rescue!

Or, more specifically, Harvard Law School professor Janet Halley, who’s been a leading protestor against the university’s new sexual harassment policy, which—like that of all too many colleges and universities these days—not only tilts the on-campus legal procedure against the accused but defines as harassment a range of classroom and out-of-classroom speech, from jokes to mere generalized references to sex, which means that anyone can be a victim who feels like a victim.
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Paradoxically, Halley herself specializes in teaching gender and sex-related issues at the Harvard Law School. As a professor who knows whereof she writes, she probably has serious doubts about whether her fellow feminists in charge of enforcing Title IX will pay attention to her warnings. So far, they haven’t.'

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'Nearly one-third of the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Law School have criticized a new university procedure for handling sexual assault cases that they say undermines traditional safeguards for the accused and could lead to wrongful disciplinary actions against Penn students.

The procedure, adopted under pressure from the Obama Administration, establishes a new position at Penn - the Sexual Violence Investigative Officer - and became effective Feb. 1. The policy weakens standards for finding that a sexual assault has occurred while offering the accused only limited rights to a defense, the law school critics say.

Given examples of high-profile sexual assault charges that have unraveled under close scrutiny, notably the gang rape allegation at the University of Virginia reported by Rolling Stone magazine, the university must take steps to ensure its procedure for adjudicating sexual assault cases is fair, the faculty members say.'

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'KC Johnson [link added], co-author of Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustice of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case, will give a presentation titled “Abandoning Due Process: Campus Sexual Assault and Presumptions of Guilt” on Monday.

Johnson’s presentation, which is part of the George Washington Forum, will likely center around his core view that those accused of sexual assault on college campuses are not given the same rights of due process as those accused of other crimes.

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'Plans by Staffordshire University students to launch a “Men’s Rights Society” are being blocked – by its rival “Woman’s Network” group!

Student Vajra Dhatu made the suggestion for the new society when he posted his idea on the Student Union “better Staffs forum” page.

But now members of the Woman’s Network group at the university in Stoke-on-Trent have taken action against the proposal.
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She told StaffsLive: “If the Men’s Society is about ‘fathers for justice’ and issues treating men more fairly in court then that is fine.

“The statement written in the forum for the Men’s Rights Society was very male-centric and there was no mention of women.

“He was trying to raise the rights of men and lower the rights of females.

“It also talked about ‘the myth of the rape culture’, which is a very dangerous area to talk about.'

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'He went from convicted rapist to Innocence Project exoneree. He went 33 months between games, departing as an Oklahoma State starter and reemerging in NCAA Division II anonymity. He’s come from hopelessness to this new beginning.

“Going from being behind bars to being here, just being in a locker room, humbles me and makes me appreciate everything,” he says.
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With the help of the Chicago Innocence Project, Williams’ attorney had submitted seven grounds of appeal. The court only ruled on the first one — that at least two jurors had visited the scene of the party and discussed what they saw with other jurors — grounds for a mistrial.

Now the question was whether prosecutors would retry the case. On June 16, D.A. Lee released a statement saying he was dropping charges because the victims did not want to endure the trauma of retestifying.

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'Arizona

Check out this great picture of Tom Brady and his kids on the field in Glendale, Arizona after winning the Super Bowl. 

OK, OK, I’m from Boston and I love the Patriots and everyone else hates Brady and the Patriots, but seriously, as these photos and story make clear, Brady and his ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynahan have put aside their differences and are a great model of shared parenting. Speaking of models, Brady’s wife, Gisele Bundchen, is a supermodel. She and Bridget have done a great job of cooperating to help make shared parenting possible for Brady and Moynahan’s son, John.

Alright, full disclosure, I guess it’s a lot easier to get shared parenting, and to do it, when you make something like $16 million and your wife earns three times that!'

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'A man hitting a woman is wrong and so is knowing it’s going on and doing nothing about it .

This is the message the Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence is stressing in their Take The Pledge campaign, where men choose “to be a stand-up guy, not a stand-by guy.”

On Wednesday, a local community group called Men Of Action took the pledge along with donating food to the Haven House Family Shelter.

“I am beyond elated with this,” said Wendy Mahoney, executive director for the Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

Mahoney was in attendance and was also one of the keynote speakers at the program that was held at Fred’s Barber and Beauty Salon on Drummond Street —where the idea of Men Of Action began.'

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'A young British Columbia man who claims his life was ruined by gossip about a false rape claim has won the right to sue his accuser for defamation, in a rare case of a sexual-assault complainant being held legally liable for her statement to police.

Simon Caron, who works in the oil patch as a leasehand, was cleared of the rape claim when he showed he was hundreds of kilometres away at the time, and could prove it with receipts and other records. No charges were laid. But as he describes it in his defamation claim against the complainant, who is a minor represented by a litigation guardian, the rumour mill “is still circulating.”

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'Breaking up is hard to do. Especially if you’re trying to break up with Christina Lorena Reber.

The Indiana woman was sentenced two years in prison for tearing off her ex-boyfriend’s balls as payback for breaking up with her.

The 46-year-old was charged with felony battery after she attacked the 60-year-old victim in March 2012.

According to a police report, Reber flew into a rage after the man broke up with her a few days earlier, which prompted her to break into his house and start punching him in the head. (The big head, not the little one…at least, not yet.)'

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'A state Senate committee heard testimony Thursday for and against a bill that would prevent accused rapists from claiming parental rights over children conceived during an alleged sexual assault.

Under the Rape Survivor Family Protection Act, sponsored by state Senator Jamie Raskin, D-Montgomery, a court could declare that a man is not the legal father of a child he conceived from an alleged rape.

Maryland law currently allows a man accused of fathering a child through rape to weigh in on custody and adoption decisions, including potentially preventing the mother from putting that child up for adoption, proponents of the bill said.
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The bill outlines a “clear and convincing evidence” standard, common in state family law, for finding that the alleged rape occurred.

The state public defender’s office opposes the proposed law because it does not require a criminal rape conviction, which carries higher standards to prove guilt.

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'Last Friday, an incubator and coworking space for women only launched in downtown Dallas called The Kaleidoscope for Her.

The space will host events and courses for women, including one-month, two-month, and four-month programs to help them test their business ideas, get them off the ground, and grow. Depending on which option you select, membership is $150-350 per month.

According to founder Tilde Guajardo, the main difference from a traditional coworking space for both genders is that The Kaleidoscope for Her is built to be more collaborative.

“Studies have shown women are often more collaborative than men and more likely to share their voice when men are not part of the conversation,” she says. “We are not anti-men by any means, but creating a ‘safe’ and ‘non-competitive’ space for women to feel free to share is essential to maintaining an open and honest dialogue between our members.”
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As far as I know, no one has yet created a similar space for men.'

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'A couple of weeks ago, I found myself wandering through a fascinating exhibition called Snip It! Stances on Ritual Circumcision in the Jewish Museum in Berlin.

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'When feminist advocates on campus sexual assault “speak truth to power,” they speak for (and often as) victims and survivors. In that position, it’s perfectly fair for them to pick and choose the constituencies to which they give voice. They can and should specialize. But as feminists issue a series of commands from within the federal government about what the problem of campus sexual violence is and how it must be handled, and as they build new institutions that give life to those commands, they become part of governmental power. Now that they have the power to adjudicate cases and determine sanctions, they are facing the full range of cases. For those feminists — and I would argue they should include, by now, the advocacy branch — the days of specialization should be over. It is time to govern. The current moment is a classic opportunity to observe how advocates turn their rhetorical tools and social-movement protest into institutional government.
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'It’s time to put down the mattress.

Columbia student Emma Sulko­wicz, who claims her close friend and former sexual partner Paul Nungesser raped her, has been carrying a mattress around campus for months to symbolize her status as a victim and remind everyone her alleged attacker remains on campus. (The mattress was also earning her course credit for performance art, but never mind that.)

Sulkowicz, who has been pictured in newspapers across the country, was even a guest of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand at the State of the Union address last month. The New York Times referred to Sulkowicz as “a woman with a mattress, refusing to keep her violation private, carrying with her a stark reminder of where it took place.”

Way to reserve judgment, folks.