Members of Congress push for sexual assault reform on campuses

Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2014-02-07 06:06

Article here. Excerpt:

'The letter lays out various requests. “We urge (the Department of Education) to be more transparent about its own investigations and enforcement actions against colleges and universities regarding campus sexual harassment and sexual assault,” wrote Maloney and Speier in the letter. They urge the Department to push for a centralized database of all universities’ records. As of today, they argue, students and their families have a difficult time accessing information on a school’s safety, including the campus history of Title IX-related compliance issues, sexual assault incidents, statistics and policies.

The representatives also seek to require schools to conduct surveys and exit interviews regarding campus safety. These surveys could provide a more accurate picture of the scope of sexual assault on campuses, giving students a better idea of how safe their school is.

In addition, the Congressional letter requests that Title IX be expanded to include protections for transgender students and address issues of same-sex violence on campuses. It cites a study by the American Association of University Women, claiming that over 70 percent of LGBT students are confronted with some form of sexual harassment while in college.'

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Colleges like to sweep anything likely to reduce enrollment/applications under the rug, like any other business. This is why they want student misconduct (alleged, proven, even disproven) and staff misconduct (likewise) handled internally even if in the rest of the world, it'd be something for authorities designated by law to handle. Bad press leads to headaches, etc.

But as MRAs know, modern campuses in the western world have become hazardous for males. Efforts like these tend to arise with an ulterior purpose: ridding campuses of male students. Perhaps because they contribute to their income, colleges (i.e., college admins) are concerned that too much male-puging/dissuasion is affecting income. So there's a limit. Sensing this, I think as they usually do, campus feminists, like non-campus ones, are heading to the gov't to be their muscle. It's a tried and true tactic. Elected officials seem incapable of not placating whatever demand-du-jour feminists have.

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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2014-02-08 16:17

I guess the reports from the existing system don't come out high enough to match the desires of the rape-hype industry. Most universities report the number of rapes in the low single digits per year with the current system. Now they want to move on to surveys, which are notoriously subject to bias and hype.

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Submitted by charlie on Sat, 2014-02-08 16:59