Article here. Excerpt:

'A Virginia Beach middle schooler was suspended for sexually harassing his teacher, but the boy and his mother claim the school has twisted an innocent compliment into something “sick.”

For months 10 On Your Side has reported on controversial discipline cases inside the Virginia Beach City Public School System – and this is one of them. It’s all about a compliment the school system claims went too far, and a student’s family who claims the school system went too far.

“I said, ‘you look nice today, Ms. ******.’ That’s all I said, and I said it just like that,” said a 7th grader, who met with WAVY.com, along with his mother, at a Virginia Beach park.

Both the mother and son do not want to identify themselves, and WAVY.com will not identify the teacher by name. We will mention that the teacher refused to comment on this case. We got that denial through the school system’s administrative office.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A Hamilton public swimming pool is considering "women only" sessions to try to encourage more into the water.

The controversial move by Hamilton's Gallagher Aquatic Centre is seen as "separatist" by some, but women's groups say it's a great idea.

The aquatic centre is planning to shut its door to men to give women a few hours a week on their own.

"I think it's great because after I've had so many kids I'm a bit body-conscious. Actually having a women's-only session would be really good," ONE woman swimmer in the pool told ONE News.

Hamilton City Council say the move is all about water safety and encouraging more women to swim.

"It's important for us that we provide those opportunities for women who otherwise would probably feel intimidated at coming into a public swimming pool," says Mathew Bayliss, the council's swimming and recreation manager.'

I've been trying to get MPR (Minnesota Public Radio) to allow comments that are counter to their decidedly feminist bias. In a recent story two "experts" were interviewed on the "campus rape culture." Both "experts" were advocates for the idea of "rape culture". The was no balance from civil rights advocates or others, who see this issue as an Obama administration political ploy. I've now been banned from commenting on any MPR story. I've asked for an explanation, but have gotten no response. Excerpt:

'The federal government last week named 55 colleges under investigation for suspected failure to deal adequately with sexual assault.

Reports of campus rapes are up significantly, but it's unclear whether those higher numbers represent more crimes or simply a greater willingness to report them. Research cited by the White House shows that 1 college woman in 5 experiences sexual assault, but that only about 12 percent of survivors file a report.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Keyshawn [Johnson] just issued a statement saying ... "I am pleased that law enforcement acted quickly and that this matter has been fairly resolved."

"The quick decision results from the fact that I should not have been arrested because no crime was committed. I did not and would not touch, grab or strike a woman -- any woman."

"Though Jennifer and I are both pleased that this matter is over, we very much resent the fact that I was ever arrested in the first place. I apologize to my friends, family, fans and colleagues for this matter."
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Law enforcement sources tell us ... the L.A. County District Attorney has rejected the case ... after cops determined the arrest was an overreaction by someone who was speaking on the phone with Keyshawn's baby mama.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Count actress Alicia Silverstone among those Jews advocating against circumcision.

In her new book, “The Kind Mama: A Simple Guide to Supercharged Fertility, a Radiant Pregnancy, a Sweeter Birth, and a Healthier, More Beautiful Beginning,” the celebrity explains her personal decision not to circumcise her son, Bear, according to the website Beyond the Bris: News and Views on Jewish Circumcision.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A trip to the mall ended in a deadly dispute when a pregnant woman fatally stabbed her boyfriend after he bought gifts for everyone, except her, police say, according to the Daily News.

Police say Miata Phalen, 24, fatally stabbed the father of her unborn child, Larry Martin, 28, on April at the apartment they shared. She is seven months pregnant, the report says.

“This is what you get for messing with me,” the woman allegedly said while standing over her lover’s bleeding body, the Daily News reports.

The incident began after the woman spiraled into a rage when Martin reportedly bought gifts for his 8-year-old son Lavelle and Martin’s 25-year-old cousin, the report says. She began chastising Martin, calling him “selfish,” Glen Runk, an assistant State's Attorney, told the Chicago Tribune.
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She reportedly greeted him at the door with a knife when he finally made it home and allegedly stabbed him in front of his son, the News says.

Petition here. Excerpt:

'Due to Parental Alienation, all over the world there are millions of children displaced from their parents, grandparents and family.

There are numerous publications of studies, research and parents' narratives detailing the dire consequences of PARENTAL ALIENATION to children, targeted parents and society. The mental and psychological injuries inflicted on children and parents tend to be irreversible and last for years or even a lifetime.
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We the undersigned are requesting the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to urgently add PARENTAL ALIENATION to the Agenda of the 63th session of the Commission on the Right of the Child to:

As I understand, unless this school supports a program to help boys in reading, or allows boys to enter this summer camp, then they are in violation of Title IX. It does not matter if it supported by a private grant; it is happening on the campus.

So here is the report on which Obama based the new rules.

Go to page 42. In the top of the middle column, sexual "coercion" is defined as "sexual violence". Now go to the table on the top of page 43. I will quote from the footnote on "sexual coercion":

'³Sexual Coercion: Pressured in a non-physical way (includes, for example, threatening to end the relationship, using influence or authority).'

So if a man ends a relationship due to lack of sex, that is a sexually violent act. Welcome to 1984.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A second-grader said a school security guard put him in handcuffs because he was misbehaving.

“Some of the kids were messing with me,” Kalyb Primm Wiley told KSHB-TV.

Kalyb told the station that kids were teasing and taunting him but nothing got physical. A teacher was unable to calm him down and he was taken to the principal’s office by a school security guard.

“We were halfway down the hall, he put handcuffs on and twisted my wrists a little,” Kalyb added.

“I don’t think any 7-year-old should be put in handcuffs unless he was armed with a weapon, or violent,” Kalyb’s mother, Tomesha Primm, told KSHB.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Geneseo campus has given a lot of attention to sexual assault in past weeks, with both national Sexual Assault Awareness Week and the report of a sexual assault taking place on campus. University Police posted an update to its investigation of the alleged assault on Monday April 28.

The update read: “The University Police Department conducted a thorough investigation of the reported assault, and according to Interim Chief of University Police Tom Kilcullen, after speaking with alleged victim, UPD was able to determine that no sexual assault occurred.”

This information comes after UPD has made several steps to increase safety in the area where the alleged assault took place.

“When the incident was reported, we needed to be responsive to the community,” Kilcullen said in a phone interview.

Article here. Excerpt:

'On Tuesday, the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault unveiled its first report. Created after a record number of complaints filed by students against universities about their handling of sexual assault on campus, including complaints against Harvard and Tufts, the task force made recommendations to colleges on how they can better prevent and address sexual harassment and assault. Unfortunately, students’ rights to due process and fundamental fairness have been lost in the shuffle.

One of the first questions many people ask on this issue is, “Why are colleges holding rape trials anyway?” Good question. They do so because they are required to under Title IX, the 1972 federal law banning sex discrimination in educational programs. But don’t bother looking at the text of Title IX, which makes no mention of rape hearings at all. The requirement instead comes from mountains of federal regulations and piecemeal statutes that hold colleges to standards that are nearly impossible to meet or even comprehend.

Article here. Excerpt:

'This statistic is derived from a 2007 study, The Campus Sexual Assault Study, which was conducted for the Justice Department’s National Institute of Justice. The researchers, led by Christopher Krebs of RTI International, also surveyed men, but the statistic cited by the administration focuses on women so we will look carefully at that part of the study.

In the Winter of 2006, researchers used a Web-based survey to interview undergraduates at two large public universities, one in the Midwest and one in the South. A total of 5,446 undergraduate women, between the ages of 18-25, participated as part of a random sample. The survey was anonymous and took about 15 minutes to complete. (Participants received a $10 Amazon.com certificate for participating.)

Story here. Excerpt:

'University police have determined that the report of a sexual assault at the Garland Avenue parking garage was untrue.

At 10 p.m. Sunday, University police received a report of a sexual assault in the Garland Avenue parking garage. The communication led to an investigation and an alert to the campus community.

After a consultation with the prosecuting attorney, University of Arkansas police arrested Julia Garcia, 18, on a charge of filing a false police report.

Police said Garcia told authorities she was attacked from behind and forced against a rail between the first and second-level stairwell. Police said Garcia claimed the assailant was 6 feet tall and wore a black stocking cap, dark shirt and dark pants.

Article here. Excerpt:

'"There is a level of absurdity in making universities handle serious sexual violence cases," Lisak says. "We wouldn't ask universities, of course, to handle a homicide. We don't even ask them to handle serious aggravated assaults."
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In many ways, colleges have less power than law enforcement. They can't subpoena evidence or witnesses, for example.

In other ways, colleges have a lot more leeway. For example, while prosecutors routinely drop criminal cases that would be hard to prove "beyond a reasonable doubt," campuses have a lower bar. They need only a "preponderance of the evidence," which means that an offense was more likely than not to have occurred.

Also, in the courts, the onus is on the accuser to prove a crime, but campuses can put the burden on the accused to prove they actually had sexual consent.'