Dem Rep. on Campus Rape: Better to Expel More Students, Even if 80% Are Innocent

Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2015-09-10 19:10

Article here. Excerpt:

'During a House Education and Workforce Committee hearing, Democratic Congressman Jared Polis said that even if a whopping 80% of accused campus rapists are innocent, it was still better to kick them all out of school.

“I mean, we’re talking about a private institution,” he said. “If I was running one, I might say, ‘Well you know even if there’s a 20-30% chance that this happened, I would want to remove this individual.”

Freedom for Individual Rights in Education policy director Joseph Cohn responded by telling Polis that the sort of standard he was discussing would be highly unlikely to pass the due process requirements that public universities must legally abide by.'

Contact info for Rep. Polis is here. Feel free to let him know what you think of his position.

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If they are 20% sure a woman is falsely accusing someone of rape, does she get expelled?

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Submitted by Kris on Fri, 2015-09-11 22:19

Great question.

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Submitted by el cid on Sat, 2015-09-12 13:54