Lawmakers want to prevent campus assaults

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2014-05-21 02:08

Article here. Excerpt:

'WASHINGTON — College officials often aren’t clear about how they must report cases of campus rape and sexual violence, and victims often feel they don’t have the support they need to hold assailants accountable, Sen. Claire McCaskill said Monday following a Capitol Hill roundtable.

The discussion focused on the Clery Act, which requires colleges and universities to disclose campus crime statistics. Some of the participants who met with McCaskill and Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., said that schools report the crimes differently and many don’t provide the training needed to investigate the attacks.
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A former sex crimes prosecutor in Kansas City, the Missouri Democrat said the changes to the legislation that she and Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., are working on will include a requirement that schools annually conduct anonymous surveys to learn more about sexual assault cases on their campuses.

The surveys are needed because current law does not provide good data, McCaskill said. While some schools have complained about the costs of conducting the survey, “many universities are going to be reluctant to shirk away from the responsibility of finding out exactly what the problem is on their campuses,” she said.

The legislation also will set penalties for violations of the crime-reporting law and mishandling of cases under civil rights legislation. The penalty is loss of all federal financial aid money, but it’s so extreme that it never has been imposed.

McCaskill said lawmakers were considering fines based on a school’s size, as well as rewards for good training programs and reporting, such as special consideration on grant applications.

She said she also wanted to include a requirement that schools use the “preponderance of the evidence” standard in grievance procedures that involve sexual misconduct. That standard requires that it is more likely than not that sexual harassment or violence occurred, according to guidelines from the Department of Education.'

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Also see: Senate Warning on Sexual Assault

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It amounts to this: A quota. Based on feminist theory, X percentage of males on a given campus are rapists/sexual assailants. So any college or uni that is doing its utmost to nab these bastards will have X-Y percentage of cases wherein a female student was assaulted/raped/etc. by one of these monsters. (The "Y" is the number that of course you can't catch because they were just so slick at it that they managed to convince the victim that she actually liked going to bed with him even though she said yes or even if it was her idea. Now THAT'S slick!)

Anyway, given there is some kind of magic formula out there, they will insist that some number of sexual assault incidents had to have been at least reported per number of female students v. number of male. And if reported, the outcome is foregone: Guilty even if proven innocent.

In short, they want their pounds of flesh. A pound isn't enough.

Failing to provide evidence that enough of these terrible monsters known as college men have been summarily dealt with risks the uni losing federal funding.

Beginning to feel like East Germany yet there on college campuses? Or perhaps life during the Red Scare? What else? Take your pick, there have been so many eras like this not just in human but merely American history that it's hard to keep them all straight. Today's bugaboo group: college boys. Find a men's college and go there instead, guys. After all, if merely dating a college girl could get you into hot water, why bother going to a co-ed vs. a single-sex school in the first place? Granted, there are co-ed colleges of such quality that you may not want to pass them up (M.I.T., etc.). However if you plan to go to college for a typical major, ultimately, aside from the price tag, what's the difference?

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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2014-05-23 04:54