Civil rights complaint filed against university after students dropped from basketball team after sexual misconduct allegation

Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2014-05-16 20:53

Story here. Excerpt:

'Former Eugene City Councilor Kevin Hornbuckle has filed a civil rights complaint on behalf of three University of Oregon students who were kicked off the basketball team in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations.

Hornbuckle said he submitted his Title IX complaint against the UO on Monday through the website of the ­ Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education . Hornbuckle said he filed the civil rights complaint without the players’ knowledge. He said the issue is wider and affects all UO students.

“The basic problem is that rape accusations are effectively forever,” Hornbuckle said Tuesday. “And the University of ­Oregon as well as the media have gravely harmed these three players, probably for the rest of their lives.”

In failing to defend the three players, and by “publicly impugning their character and morals,” the UO administration “participated in generating a climate of hysteria,” Hornbuckle wrote in his complaint.
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Hornbuckle accused the UO and its athletic department of violating the players’ right to privacy and their right of assembly by condemning the sexual encounters of the three ballplayers and a female student.

“This complaint is on behalf of all students at the University of Oregon who expected the president and every other administrator to keep their prying noses out of their sex lives,” Hornbuckle said.

“You would find in the sociological literature of young adult sex, reams of evidence of all kinds of exotic sexual activity at that age. It’s part of being human and being young,” he said.

The complaint highlights the bind the UO finds itself in: take action against the players and be accused of caving in to political correctness, or take no action and be accused of condoning a campus culture of rape.'

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... in an actual gang-rape or it's caving to political correctness by pandering to a female student who, once it became known she had a 4-way with three b-ball players, got embarrassed as hell over it, then said it was non-consensual, that she tried to resist but was not able to.

Well, can't say I know the details of timelines here, but I do know this: if the girl was gang-raped, the university has far from served their own or the typical person's idea of justice by merely expelling the players from the team. After all, if they really thought his was a genuine gang-rape but a hard-to-prove one (hence the DA is doing nothing), then they are surely under-serving their students by allowing these three predatory MONSTERS to remain among them.

However if their behavior reflects a fear of campus feminists and so they feel pressure to find a way to punish the boys by appearing to go along with the girl's explanation for why she was doing the horizontal (and maybe vertical, too) mamba with three guys at once (i.e., but non-consensually, i.e., she was being gang-raped), then they are behaving in a grotesquely craven and cowardly fashion.

So which is it? Indifference to student safety from sexual predation or simpering, pusillanimous rolling over and stomach-showing surrender like toy poodle puppies in the presence of a 100-lb. alpha-male wolf pack leader?

Or is it both?

Take your pick. Either way, it is not their finest hour, yes?

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Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2014-05-19 04:50