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'1. What protections will be in place to make sure the annually reported statistics won’t lead to more convictions based on political correctness?
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2. How will the student surveys solve the problem, instead of being used for political purposes?
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3. Who will have more authority, the colleges or local law enforcement?
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4. Will there be “support services” for the accused?

The bill will establish “university support for survivors of sexual violence.” Nowhere does it mention any kind of support services for those accused.

The “confidential advisers” designated to assist accusers will “perform a victim-centered, trauma-informed (forensic) interview” with the accuser. They will also inform the accuser of what they can do next, whether that be notifying campus officials or local police. The advisers may also assist accusers in reporting the incident.

Nowhere does the bill mention any services for the accused (note: accused means innocent until proven guilty). Will there be someone on campus providing them with information on what they can do to provide for their own defense? Will they be informed of their rights, and will those rights be under the law (due process) or under campus rules? Will they have the right to legal counsel in disciplinary proceedings?
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5. Who will pay for campus personnel training?
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6. Will the government detail a “uniform campus-wide process” for dealing with claims of sexual assault?
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Will this bill do anything for the accused by way of allowing them to defend themselves? Will the accused be able to obtain counsel or cross-examine the accuser? Why doesn’t this bill ensure all campuses allow the same defense procedures for the accused?

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'The federal government is suing Pennsylvania over a physical fitness test it argues unfairly and unnecessarily disadvantages women who apply to be state troopers.

Applicants to the Pennsylvania State Police Academy must pass a Physical Readiness Test that requires, among other things, jumping 14 inches in the air; running 1.5 miles in 17 minutes and 48 seconds; and performing 13 pushups. The Police Department maintains that each aspect of the test measures a skill necessary for the job: It says (PDF) pushups, for example, reflect on an applicant’s aptitude for “tasks including use of force, lifting, carrying, and pushing.”

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'Where would we be without the gender pay gap? With girls outperforming boys at school, outnumbering male students at university, and women experiencing no more practical hindrances than men to achieving anything they want in life, feminists have been forced to shift their attention to the more nebulous cultural sphere in order to prove that women remain victims of a patriarchal conspiracy. Often played out in the messy virtual world, feminism has been reduced to a question of lifestyle choice and personal identity, with the supporters of the Twitter hashtag #YesAllWomen hysterically pitched against those in the #WomenAgainstFeminism camp. So, apparent evidence that women really are disadvantaged in a way that can be counted and measured, through the pay gap, is greeted with an almost audible sigh of relief.
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But the above suggests that, for all the shrinkage of the pay gap, it is still the case that women are hard done by in comparison with men. Certainly, these headline-grabbing statistics about a smaller but still existing pay gap are used by politicians and campaigners in their handwringing over the plight of women and girls today. However, what is less well known is that such statistics are arrived at by conflating the earnings of women of all ages, all occupations, and those in part-time and full-time work. The reality is that for people aged under 40 and working full-time, the gender pay gap is around zero; since 2009 women aged 22 to 29 have actually earned more than men. Furthermore, evidence shows that as the pay gap falls first for younger people, this smaller differential sticks with each generational cohort as they age. So, if current trends continue, the pay gap should be a thing of the past in the space of some 20 years.

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'Sen. Barbara Boxer and Rep. Susan Davis, both California Democrats, on Wednesday proposed new legislation to address campus sexual assault, just hours after a broader bipartisan package on the same topic was unveiled.
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"Wherever a conflict exists between the university’s interest and the victim’s interest," a one-pager on the bill explains, "the advocate must side with the victim."

The advocate would be available to guide victims of sexual assault through reporting the assault; counseling; administrative procedures; medical, health and academic accommodations; and legal processes of the institution or local law enforcement. The advocate would be required to attend any university adjudications on the assault on behalf of the victim, if the victim requests. The advocate also would be required to "maintain the privacy and confidentiality of the victim.'

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'The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, a bipartisan, independent agency responsible for investigating civil rights issues, held a briefing on Friday to discuss the effects of recent federal guidance on Title IX sexual harassment law in schools, and whether that guidance might come in conflict with the First Amendment.

The hearing centered around the 2013 “Montana agreement,” a resolution reached between federal agencies and the University of Montana at Missoula after the university and local law enforcement were found to have failed to adequately address allegations of sexual assault and harassment. Failure to protect students from sexual violence and harassment is a violation of Title IX, a statute that protects students from gender-based discrimination, and violating Title IX puts schools in jeopardy of losing federal funding.

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'A woman in Alberta lied about domestic violence to bilk an Ontario woman out of $70,000, police said.

Mounties were alerted to a woman who went to TD and Scotiabank in the Spruce Grove and Stony Plain area, just west of Edmonton, with a forged identification of a woman in Ontario.

Cpl. Colette Zazulak says the suspect was very manipulative at the bank, telling employees she was fleeing an abusive relationship and all she had was her social insurance number.

The suspect somehow got hold of the victim's social insurance number and used it to get a photo ID.

Once the fraudster got into the victim's bank accounts, she used her line of credit and made fraudulent purchases.'

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'It’s also interesting to consider that despite all the requirements that the armed forces provide more equal opportunities for women soldiers, there continues to be no requirement that women register with Selective Service.

Equal rights would suggest that if the draft were reintroduced, women would be subject to being drafted and forced to serve in whatever capacity the military might dictate, meaning fewer men would be forced to serve.

This seems especially at odds with the Obama administration’s effort, announced in January 2013, to end rules that exclude female service members from direct ground combat.

No operation is mistake free and it’s understandable that federal agencies that deal with huge numbers are going to make the make mistakes that involve lots of people — but this seems just one more example of why so many are fearful when putting government in charge of more of our lives.'

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'Kevin Macfie owes more than $60,000 in child support, and he's spent most of the past three years at the Bergen County Jail as authorities have tried to get him to pay up.

His 871 nights and weekends behind bars have cost taxpayers more than $87,000.

During that time, he's paid less than $15,000 in child support, much of it garnisheed from unemployment benefits, which have long since run out. Homeless, jobless and struggling with alcoholism, there's little sign he will ever pay what he owes.

Macfie has had plenty of company in jail. Last year, more than 1,800 men and women were incarcerated or sentenced to home confinement with ankle bracelets in Bergen and Passaic counties for failing to pay child support. They and thousands of others statewide cycle in and out of a court system whose mission is to get money from people who claim they just don't have any.

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'A university professor accused of assaulting a pro-lifer on campus and stealing pro-life materials has pleaded no contest.

But the question remains, what will the university do?

Last March, two sisters were overseeing a pro-life display at the University of California-Santa Barbara when a professor assaulted one of the girls and instructed students to carry off the pro-life signs.

The pro-lifers videotaped the encounter with feminist Professor Mireille Miller-Young, showing the professor grinning as the upset teens followed her through the campus as two other students hauled away the signs.

"I may be a thief but you're a terrorist," the professor tells one of the pro-lifers on the recorded video (warning: foul language.)

One of the pro-lifers was seemingly shoved by Miller-Young as she tried to enter an elevator to retrieve the signs.

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'The oft-cited statistic that “one in five women is sexually assaulted by the end of her college career” has become a battle cry for those pushing for strict and severe sexual assault campus policies.

The statistic that 20 percent of all coeds will be sexually assaulted or raped before they leave college was taken from a 2007 study conducted by the Justice Department, and it paints a truly horrifying picture.

The problem is, the statistic is flimsy and unsubstantiated at best – and maliciously manipulated as a means to an end at worst.

The study was a web-based survey of 5,446 undergraduate women at two large public universities. Yes, the survey pulled from all of two universities, both of them large public schools.

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'ESPN host Stephen A. Smith apologized today for his comments about domestic violence, but he also found a defender today in Whoopi Goldberg, who went off on The View today agreeing with the point he was making. Goldberg said that if a woman hits a man and then he hits back, she shouldn’t be surprised by it.

Smith had said late last week that women should not to anything to “provoke” men into striking them. Goldberg agreed with this point and cried, “If you hit somebody, you cannot be sure you are not going to get hit back!”

Jenny McCarthy and guest co-host Sunny Hostin pushed back against Goldberg’s argument, with Hostin telling Goldberg she’s blaming the victim. Goldberg insisted she wasn’t, saying no one should hit anyone, period. However:

“If you make the choice as a woman who’s four foot three and you decide to hit a guy who’s six feet tall and you’re the last thing he wants to deal with that day and he hits you back, you cannot be surprised!”'

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'Writing in the Guardian, feminist blogger Jessica Valenti scorned the anti-feminist movement, calling their actions “a betrayal”. I agree that there has been a betrayal here but this betrayal has been on the side of the feminist movement. The intimidating and hostile nature of certain factions of the modern day feminist movement, including their support of misandry and unwillingness to engage in open debate, is pushing women away from feminism towards communities such as Women Against Feminism.

Contrary to what the members of Women Against Feminism appear to have been told by the unwelcoming misandry-pushing feminists they have encountered online or in their schools and colleges, feminism is and always has been about equality. The problem is that, in the words of feminist writer and Vagenda blogger Grace Chapman, “The crucial argument ‘you’re a feminist if you believe in equality between the sexes’ just isn’t being heard clearly enough amid the noise”.

The experiences of the members of Women Against Feminism paints a picture of feminism as a bullying and aggressive force that you can disagree with at your peril. They have experienced feminism as an isolating clique who dictatorially enforce one radical party line on matters feminist and political and who brand those who disagree with them as bullies and traitors. Unfortunately, this too has been my experience of feminism at university.

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'Today’s feminist rhetoric seems to have shifted from a focus on self-empowerment to a few-good-men mentality. Men are not only not the enemy; they’re our last, best hope. According to Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In,” “the single most important career decision that a woman makes is whether she will have a life partner and who that partner is.” Last year Xerox CEO Ursula Burns advised ambitious women to “Marry someone 20 years older.” And according to at least one feminist nonprofit, “Men ... have a critical role to play in creating inclusive workplaces … Without the avid support of men, who are arguably the most powerful group of stakeholders in most large corporations, significant progress toward ending gender disparities is unlikely.”

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'Mansplaining is a habit — maybe even a vice — that I've engaged in for years, talking with those closest to me using little packets of conversational density that can sound long-winded and lecture-y to anyone on the receiving end. I've always figured it was the journalist in me, that talking in AP inverted-pyramid was a charming occupational hazard. And besides, I'm just so goll-durned smart, it would selfish not to share that brilliance, right?

Turns out it's a guy thing, and people who live with guys are getting kind of tired of it. Once the term entered the cultural mainstream, I vowed to my wife that I was going to cut back on the mansplaining. I've said exactly nine words to her since June, five of them "OK."
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Women, however, are not the only ones who have to put up with toxic mansplaining. Younger men and teenagers get it from older men all the time. In the new coming-of-age film "Boyhood," young Mason is getting chewed on constantly from stepdads and male teachers. I had the chance to interview Ellar Coltrane, the young actor playing Mason, and he said one of the few things he had in common with the character he played on screen was the experience of often having to tolerate some resentment-fueled when-I-was-your-age harangue from an older male authority figure.

Still, it's wives, girlfriends, daughters, dates and female subordinates on the job who are most often downwind to mansplaining, which by definition is freighted with the unspoken assumption, "I know more than you do."
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OK, any given man may indeed know more than any given woman. But the opposite is true about half the time. Mansplaining is a vestige of a past when men did know more than women due solely to the privilege of education and experience, a privilege imposed by men.

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'Raichur: Beware male teachers! Your every activity, both inside the class rooms and outside, is being watched by the vigilant eyes of the police.

The recent spurt in sexual harassment and rape cases all over the state, especially in schools and colleges, has prompted the Raichur police prepare a dossier on all male teachers in the district.

Besides initiating a number of measures to curb sexual harassment cases, Raichur Superintendent of Police M.N. Nagaraj has directed the Deputy Director of Public Instruction to furnish a list of all male teachers working under his jurisdiction in the district.