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The University of Virginia has reinstated all of its fraternities, pending their acceptance of a new agreement requiring, among other things, that at least three members be “sober and lucid” at all parties. The college announced the measure in a news release on Tuesday.
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The new agreement, which fraternities must sign by January 16, requires, among other things, that:

• At least three members be “sober and lucid” at each function.
• At least one of the sober brothers be stationed at each point of alcohol distribution, and one be at the stairs leading to the house’s bedrooms.
• The fraternity provide one additional sober brother per every 30 members of the chapter.
• At least three of the sober brothers be non-freshmen.
• All fraternities submit two risk-management plans to the college’s Inter-Fraternity Council.'

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'Lawyer Alan Dershowitz is fighting back against claims that he was involved in a prostitution ring that involved the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.

Dershowitz says that the claims are fabricated despite them appearing in a U.S. court document.
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Dershowitz is a professor emeritus at Harvard Law School and is one of the biggest names in U.S. law. Dershowitz helped negotiate the agreement with the government, which helped Epstein avoid federal prosecution.

A separate civil lawsuit claims that prosecutors violated the rights of Epstein’s victims when they agreed to a deal with him without their opinion.

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'Gotnews.com can conclusively prove that the photo of Prince Andrew with Virginia Roberts, the alleged underaged prostitute is a forgery.
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The key to investigation is the size of the pixels. You would expect a photograph to have the same pixelation throughout. And yet the sections with Andrew and Virginia have different sized pixels that become clear when you zoom in.

Our analyst writes:

“Virginia’s and Andrew’s facial photos were taken using different cameras, different shutters speeds; therefore; at different times. Pixels in the photo of the brunette and Andrew are a better match, yet not exact.”

“It is 99.8% likely that the photo of Andrew and the brunette [Jeffrey Epstein assistant Ghislaine Maxwell] were taken by the same camera, with the same shutter speed, at the same time.”

Story here. Mickey Mouse is next, so long as he has enough money to "settle out of court". Good grief, soon no one (male, that is) whose name ever appeared in a headline or has more than a cool mill in the bank will be safe. Excerpt:

'Unlike other celebrities and politicians who have allowed sexual assault accusations to ruin their careers, attorney Alan Dershowitz [link added] is fighting back early — and hard.

Dershowitz, a Harvard Law professor and outspoken critic of how colleges have been handling sexual assault, was accused of having sex with an underage girl by a former witness against billionaire investor Jeffrey Epstein.

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'It is a common practice of the left to stage an incident and then demand enormous legal changes to respond to their hoax.

Griswold v. Connecticut was a scam orchestrated by Yale law professors to challenge the state’s anti-contraception law. The case was a fraud: The law had never been enforced and never would have been enforced, until the professors held a press conference announcing they were breaking the law.
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Jamie Leigh Jones made fantastical claims about being fed Rohypnol, gang-raped and then held at gunpoint while working for KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton, in Iraq in 2005. Without considering the likelihood of a military contractor doing this to an American citizen, knowing she’d get back to the U.S. someday and be able to tell her story, our adversary media and well-paid Democratic senators believed every word out of Jones’ mouth.

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'Fresh off a victory in getting a law passed that regulates sexual encounters between students on college campuses, feminist activists in California are now pushing for instruction on sexual “consent” for children starting in kindergarten.

An activist group called Take Back the Night has joined with others to issue a set of “demands” to California colleges and public schools that it believes will help roll back “a culture of rape” on campuses.

“We recommend consent education in K-12,” the group said on its Facebook page. “College is too late for people to learn about bodily autonomy and respect.”

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'The debate over sexual assault on campus — how much it happens, how to punish it, how to prevent it — is in its early phases. There’s plenty of jumping to conclusions, lots of vitriol, but very little clarity on the numbers or what to do. Emily Yoffe’s controversial blockbuster in Slate, “The College Rape Overcorrection,” is a brave and useful volley in that debate. Yoffe starts with the story of Drew Sterrett, who was an engineering student at the University of Michigan in 2012. One night a woman known as CB invited herself into his bed, the two had sex, while his roommate tried and failed to sleep amid the din of their lovemaking in the bunk bed above.

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'Iowa State University’s decision to kick a basketball player off the team for alleged sexual misconduct should be upheld by the state Supreme Court, national groups representing rape victims and college administrators say.

The case of former Cyclone guard Bubu Palo has “critical implications” nationally for whether colleges can use internal disciplinary policies to enforce stricter standards in regards to sexual misconduct than criminal law, the groups told justices in a brief filed this week. Those policies are necessary to comply with federal law and to combat the epidemic of sexual assault on campuses, the Victim Rights Law Center and Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education argued.

Criminal charges against Palo were dropped, but Iowa State is appealing a judge’s ruling that found there wasn’t evidence that Palo violated its sexual misconduct policy. A decision is likely months away.'

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'A West Australian man has successfully sued his estranged wife for defamation over a Facebook post that suggested she was the victim of domestic violence, after a Perth court found she could not prove the statement was true.

Bunbury teacher Miro Dabrowski was awarded $12,500 in damages at the West Australian district court in December by Justice Michael Bowden.

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'A professor at the University of Virginia and his son, a third-year student, are requesting an apology from UVA president Teresa Sullivan, who suspended all fraternity activities after an article in Rolling Stone alleged that a female student was gang-raped at the school's Phi Kappa Psi fraternity in 2012.

The magazine has since apologized for a series of journalism failures in its reporting of the story, including failing to contact the would-be attackers and to probe inconsistencies in the account of the woman who said she was attacked.  

Writing in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, professor Robert Turner and his son, Thomas Turner, said they found the details in the story "implausible" but they were equally shocked by Sullivan's decision to suspend fraternities before conducting an investigation of the incident. 

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'In a brief filed this week with the Iowa Supreme Court, the state Attorney General’s Office has argued that District Court Judge Steven Oeth used the wrong evidentiary standard in his August decision to overturn a sexual misconduct violation against former Ames High School and Iowa State University basketball player Bubu Palo.

The brief, which requests an oral argument in front of the court, was filed on behalf of the Iowa Board of Regents, which in December 2013 upheld a decision by ISU President Steven Leath finding Palo in violation of the university’s sexual misconduct policy stemming from rape accusations against him and his friend, Spencer Cruise, the previous year.
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Citing numerous examples of case law, the Attorney General’s Office is arguing that both Priester and Oeth erred in their interpretations of the law — Priester by neglecting to apply ISU’s student conduct code in his findings and Oeth by reassessing evidence instead of determining whether Leath’s and the Board of Regents’ findings were supported by the evidence already established.

The brief points out that Priester referenced the Iowa Code’s definition of sexual abuse in his proposed findings, when it did not apply to the university’s sexual misconduct policy. State law requires guilt beyond a reasonable doubt — part of the reason why the Story County Attorney’s Office decided to drop the criminal cases against Palo and Cruise — while university misconduct proceedings are based on a lesser preponderance of evidence standard.

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'A rape culture dogma has been created in North America by politically-correct (PC) feminists who claim sexual assault against women is a systemic problem throughout society. It does not matter that rape is a heavily punished crime or that the mere accusation of it can destroy a man's career or life. Nor does it matter that both The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network – the largest anti-sexual assault organization in America – and the U.S. Department of Justice, National Crime Victimization Survey (2008-2012) agree: The frequency of sexual assault has fallen more than 50% since 1993. The dogma of a rape culture is immune to evidence.

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'Depressing similarities link the two highest-profile allegations of campus sexual assault in recent years -- the fraudulent gang rape claims against Duke lacrosse players in 2006, and Rolling Stone writer Sabrina Erdely’s multiply discredited portrayal in November of a sadistically brutal gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity.

Even more depressing is another comparison between the two cases. While campus journalists and many other students at Duke were refreshingly open to evidence and critical thinking as the case there unfolded, the vast majority of U-Va. students have been sheep-like. They have emulated -- or at least tolerated -- the anti-male prejudices of U-Va. academics and administrators. Some have even called for secret criminal trials in rape prosecutions.

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'One of America’s most prestigious law schools got a legal slap on the wrist on Tuesday, and many of its professors are unhappy. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced that Harvard Law School had failed to respond adequately to student claims of sexual harassment and assault and was therefore in violation of Title IX. The decision will see that the Ivy League law school revise its sexual harassment policies again, in addition to the university-wide changes announced earlier this year. The OCR cited two specific incidents where the prominent school failed to respond swiftly and appropriately to student complaints.

The problem, in the eyes of many Harvard Law professors, is that the decision and the changes it kicks off (a) are flawed and (b) fly in the face of the basic principles of law. In the current atmosphere, where rape and sexual assault on college campuses are believed to be epidemic, seeing colleges like Harvard Law forced into self-improvement could be understood as a welcome change. However, professors at the school, which has produced 20 Supreme Court justices, say the announcement could actually hurt the civil rights of students. They also see it as part of the federal government’s ongoing bullying of the nation’s institutes of higher education. And this isn’t a case of mansplaining to protect entitled male students—the Harvard Law professors who object to the judgment include several female academics."
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Story here. A good attempt at re-assessing the treatment of non-custodial fathers in today's world. Excerpt:

'One kind of family is the one in an old greeting-card picture: two parents, one or more kids, all under one roof.

But another kind of family has become more and more common over the last several decades. We tend to call it “single parenting,” but it is really better described as an unmarried mother and father living apart, their children, and the government whose laws regulate their relationship.

That set of laws is the child-support system, and it covers 17 million American children—about a quarter of them. But that system is nearly 40 years old, established during a different economy, and built on an old model where the mother was the caretaker and the father simply brought home the bacon. Today, a group of critics is saying the system needs an update, not only to be fair to adults but to avoid hurting the children whose interests it is supposed to serve.