Washington throws the book at 'campus rape culture'

Article here. Excerpt:

'For people my age, the freedom to get drunk or high and then have sex with someone was a right guaranteed by the sexual revolution of the Sixties.

A great number of my friends (both genders) vigorously exercised that right, knowing it was not something our parents or their parents were especially free to do, particularly the women.
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The Obama government in fact insists upon that more stringent approach, telling educatorsin a special White House report to use a "more likely than not" test to decide whether sexual assault or harassment has occurred.

That is a much looser measure than the previous standard of "clear and convincing," and certainly far more likely to produce a guilty verdict than the "beyond a reasonable doubt" test applied in a criminal courtroom.
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Further, the White House now recommends that schools should adjudicate cases without allowing any cross-examination of testimony.

Presumably, the government has decided that the need to avoid further traumatizing victims trumps an accused's right to question the accuser.

The intent behind all this is laudable. I say that as the father of a daughter who just graduated from university.

But what the universities are doing is also frightening, and I say that as the father of a son who is going into his senior year.
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Not only are universities all over America substituting their administrators for police and courts, they are attempting, with the best of intentions, to parse and regulate human behaviour down to the least gesture and syllable.'