A Bizarre Report on Campus Rape

Article here. Excerpt:

'As "rape culture" activism heats up, reporters are demonstrating a startling credulity on the subject. One case in point is the Chronicle of Higher Education's recent investigation of Title IX complaints from 2003 to 2013. The piece, entitled "Promise Unfulfilled?," illustrates the faulty assumptions driving many journalists who cover campus sexual assault.

The nearly 3000-word article, by Jonah Newman and Libby Sanders, advances the following thesis: the fact that only 10 percent of Office of Civil Rights complaints filed in the past decade led to settlements is evidence of "a process that...can be fraught with confusion and conflicting expectations, and often brings unsatisfying outcomes." It makes that argument, however, in an unusual fashion.

First, and most obvious, the article never mentions--not even once(!)--the OCR's 2011 "Dear Colleague" letter which demanded that colleges lower the threshold for convicting accused rapists , even as the piece addresses the years both before and after the OCR unilaterally, and dramatically, reinterpreted federal law. This oversight is particularly baffling given that many Title IX accusers wish to force adoption of new policies that increase the likelihood of colleges branding some of their students rapists. A pre-2011 complaint (when the OCR still respected due process on sexual matters) would obviously yield a different outcome than a filing made after 2011 filing, the period in which the agency has all but declared war on due process.
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If, however, colleges need to "step up their response to rape," perhaps the more appropriate question might be one left unasked by Newman and Sanders. None of the accusers in their article appear to have filed a complaint with the police. Is there something wrong with college culture that is discouraging victims of violent crime to seek support from law enforcement? Perhaps colleges should address this issue first.'