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'Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Education wrapped up its investigation of Princeton University's sexual harassment and assault policies. The findings were unsurprising, though still striking: the government essentially accused the university of violating federal anti-discrimination law by extending too much due process to accused students.

Princeton had been one of the last hold-outs on the standard of proof in college rape trials. The university required adjudicators to obtain "clear and convincing" proof that a student was guilty of sexual assault before convicting him. That's too tough, said DOE. As part of its settlement, Princeton is required to lower its evidence standard to "a preponderance of the evidence," which means adjudicators must convict if they are 50.1 percent persuaded by the accuser."
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On the other side, Laura Dunn, executive director of victims' advocacy center SurvJustice, hilariously told InsideHigherEd that "ingrained male privilege" was the only reason for using a lower evidence standard. Thankfully, the federal government is beating that tendency out of colleges, she said:

"It's mostly at these elite schools that we see a real pushback,” Dunn said. “To put it bluntly, I think it's arrogance and ingrained male privilege, but I think they’re starting to get the message.”

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'Older men are much less likely than women to receive osteoporosis screening and treatment after suffering a wrist fracture, a new study reveals.

While osteoporosis is widely regarded as a disease that affects older women, as many as one in four men older than 50 will break a bone due to osteoporosis, according to the researchers. And, more than 2 million American men have osteoporosis, they added.
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The study found that men were three times less likely than women to undergo bone mass density testing for osteoporosis after a wrist fracture. In addition, men were also seven times less likely than women to begin treatment for osteoporosis after a wrist fracture.

Within six months of the wrist fracture, 55 percent of women and 21 percent of men began treatment with calcium and vitamin D supplements, the study found. Just over 20 percent of women -- but only 3 percent of men -- starting taking bisphosphonates, a common drug treatment for increasing bone mass, the researchers said.'

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'When you hear the phrase “lynch mob,” what image comes to mind? Most of us will probably think of tooth-free rednecks with pitchforks off to find themselves some darker-skinned folks to harass. Or we might cast our minds back to a time when angry, hungry people regularly rounded up eccentric old women, blamed them for causing crop failures and other local calamities, and then had them dunked or burned as witches.

I saw a different kind of lynch mob recently at Columbia University. There wasn’t a pitchfork in sight. No one started a fire. Yet this gathering of self-styled justice enforcers, who were loudly demanding the metaphorical scalp of an individual they suspected of doing something bad, nonetheless had the same scary moral righteousness and disregard for due process as every other lynch mob in history. It’s just that they were better dressed, better educated, far more middle-class than the usual fire-wielding dispensers of mob justice. It was an Ivy League lynch mob.
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A male student told me my insistence that individuals suspected of a crime must be fairly tried and found convincingly guilty before we ruin their lives — and being expelled from a prestigious university for rape would undoubtedly be life-ruining — was evidence that I had fallen for the “liberal paradigm” of justice, which tends to benefit white, well-off men. Apparently there is another “paradigm,” a better one, in which women who accuse men of rape are instantly believed and the men in question swiftly and severely punished.

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'And for a good reason. Recent neuroscience research shows that people with A.D.H.D. are actually hard-wired for novelty-seeking — a trait that had, until relatively recently, a distinct evolutionary advantage. Compared with the rest of us, they have sluggish and underfed brain reward circuits, so much of everyday life feels routine and understimulating.
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These findings suggest that people with A.D.H.D are walking around with reward circuits that are less sensitive at baseline than those of the rest of us. Having a sluggish reward circuit makes normally interesting activities seem dull and would explain, in part, why people with A.D.H.D. find repetitive and routine tasks unrewarding and even painfully boring.
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Consider that humans evolved over millions of years as nomadic hunter-gatherers. It was not until we invented agriculture, about 10,000 years ago, that we settled down and started living more sedentary — and boring — lives. As hunters, we had to adapt to an ever-changing environment where the dangers were as unpredictable as our next meal. In such a context, having a rapidly shifting but intense attention span and a taste for novelty would have proved highly advantageous in locating and securing rewards — like a mate and a nice chunk of mastodon. In short, having the profile of what we now call A.D.H.D. would have made you a Paleolithic success story.
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Some of the rising prevalence of A.D.H.D. is doubtless driven by the pharmaceutical industry, whose profitable drugs are the mainstay of treatment. Others blame burdensome levels of homework, but the data show otherwise. Studies consistently show that the number of hours of homework for high school students has remained steady for the past 30 years.
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'A male-led campaign to promote affirmative consent for sex at DePaul University – which is nominally Catholic but runs a “Queer Peers” mentorship program - has thrown in the towel.

Or rather, the T-shirt.

Selling shirts emblazoned with “Consent the D” – a play on the school’s basketball slogan “Fear the D” (the Demons mascot) that was widely interpreted as “dick” – came off as “flippant” to campus feminists, who didn’t take kindly to an alternative approach to their signature issue, Jezebel says:

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'The University of New Mexico women’s basketball team has indefinitely suspended its team captain Ebony Walker in response to a recent domestic violence arrest. Walker is accused of throwing a knife at her boyfriend after a fight with her boyfriend at an apartment in southeast Albuquerque on Tuesday night.

Lobo women’s basketball head coach Yvonne Sanchez addressed Walker’s arrest at a news conference on Thursday.

“When people put their hands on each other in an angry manner, it’s not okay. Either way, it’s not okay, and I don’t take it lightly, I take it very seriously,” said Sanchez.

Sanchez says Walker has been suspended indefinitely and won’t be allowed to practice with the team. Sanchez says the suspension will also include the team’s Sunday exhibition game, however, she says Walker has not been kicked off the team at this point.'

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'Nagpur: The annual gender gap report of World Economic Forum (WEF) has received flak from men's rights activists in the country who believe that it is biased towards women. They say the report is drafted in a way that would end up spreading misandry by blaming men for social issues caused due to poverty and bad governance, while completely ignoring various issues they face.

In the report, India ranked 114 among 142 countries, slipping from 101 last year. The ranking was given on the basis of factors like economic participation, health, educational attainment and political empowerment of women in society. Terming the report one-sided and unscientific, men's right activists said it not only openly acknowledges measuring gender gap only in one direction (for women), but also celebrates gender inequalities suffered by men.

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'It sounds like a radical idea: Stop incarcerating women, and close down women’s prisons. But in Britain, there is a growing movement, sponsored by a peer in the House of Lords, to do just that.

The argument is actually quite straightforward: There are far fewer women in prison than men to start with — women make up just 7 percent of the prison population. This means that these women are disproportionately affected by a system designed for men.

But could women’s prisons actually be eliminated in the United States, where the rate of women’s incarceration has risen by 646 percent in the past 30 years? The context is different, but many of the arguments are the same.
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If we can’t close down women’s prisons, we can at least slow down their expansion. Efforts to isolate women from their communities must be identified and opposed.

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'As Norway became the first NATO country to require women to register for the draft this month, it has American military analysts debating whether the US could be on the verge of taking the same step, too.

It was back in 1981 that the US Supreme Court ruled that requiring only men to register for the draft was constitutional, since there were US laws that banned women from fighting in combat. 

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'The first three women to successfully complete the Marine’s Combat Endurance Test (CET) have been asked to leave the rigorous, infantry officers training course for failing to meet the physical standards required.
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"They were physically disqualified from the training last week for falling behind in hikes while carrying loads of upwards of 100 pounds, says Maj. George Flynn, director of the Infantry Officers Course (IOC) at Quantico, Va.

Dan Bollinger's latest essay on genital integrity does the unthinkable: Compares MGM to FGM. Male circumcision removes just as much tissue and nerves, causes just as much pain, and results in about the same sexual harm as the most common form of female genital mutilation.I sometimes make this statement in order to shock people into understanding that male and female genital mutilation (MGM and FGM) aren't diametrically opposed, but that they have a lot in common and we should work toward abolishing both practices.

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Dan is Director of the ICGI.

Story here. What an insane idea! Placing the burden of proof on the state when trying a suspect for a crime, yet even rape! Well, it's just outrageous! Excerpt:

'Story here: http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2024910962_supremecourtrapexml.html

Reversing what it called “incorrect and harmful” earlier rulings, the Washington Supreme Court said Thursday the state cannot put the burden on rape defendants to prove that an alleged victim consented — a decision critics said will make it harder to punish dangerous sex offenders.

The court had previously ruled that when a defendant claimed the contact was consensual, it was up to the defendant to prove there was consent by a preponderance of the evidence. The rulings essentially made consent an affirmative defense to a rape charge, the way a killer can claim self-defense in a murder case.

We're taught as children to always tell the truth, but this lesson must have escaped NBA player Dante Cunningham's girlfriend and Hennipen County Attorney Mike Freeman.

Six months ago Dante Cunningham's girlfriend of eight months, Miryah Herron, accused him of beating her, and Cunningham was arrested by police. Three days later, Dante was charged with violating a protective order by calling and Skyping Herron from his hotel room. However, police found that Cunningham Herron had sent the messages to herself to frame Cunningham.

Despite finding the claims false, the county's attorney refuses to bring charges against Herron for a false police report, which would hold Herron accountable for her actions and clear Cunningham's name. Instead, teams are turning down Cunningham because of this; his model career-effectively ruined.

This isn't right, and is sending the message that partners can levy the weight of the criminal justice system against the other through lies, without consequences.

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'A California federal judge on Friday {5 September 2014} refused to throw out a proposed class action claiming an Allergan Inc. subsidiary concealed from consumers that its anti-aging creams derived from human foreskin cells pose a cancer risk, finding the products could be considered drugs that haven’t received government approval.

In an order mostly denying the defendants’ motion to dismiss, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter ruled plaintiff Josette Ruhnke’s complaint sufficiently alleged that the sale of SkinMedica Inc.’s line of “Tissue Nutrient Solution” products containing the compound “NouriCel”...'

The story's a bit dated but still current. For more information and with inquiries about the suit, including to join it, go here.