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'But if this becomes law, the ramifications might not be so funny. The bill essentially turns all sexual behavior into a potential sexual-assault unless there is a clear, affirmative series of “stop and consent” moments. (It seems to have been penned by someone with only a textbook understanding of how such relationships usually unfold.)

There’s a big difference between a romantic tryst that lacks the requisite affirmative approvals (and perhaps later results in remorse and recrimination) and an assault where one person proceeds against the other person’s will.
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The right law, Manly adds, would halt state funds to any colleges that systemically covered up such abuses, but he doesn’t think legislators have the courage to take on powerful lobbies. The state has still not enacted a law making it easier to remove sexual predators from K-12 schools two years after a horrific case in a Los Angeles elementary school. And that’s a more clear-cut matter than this one.

So, instead of confronting the problem directly, critics say the Legislature is advancing a bill that blurs the distinction between an assault and consensual sex and is likely to lead to more confusion and allegations about some decidely intimate moments. This bill may be hypocritical, but that may be the least of its problems.'

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What's happening here isn't robbing Peter to pay Paul. It's Peter (the colleges) colluding with Paul (the *gubmint*) to hush up allegations of criminal activity such as rape (however the college admin'n currently defines it) so as to keep already-overburdened gov't services such as DAs' offices from having to deal with "these cases". So together, they are happy to shift the entire matter to the colleges and wash their hands of seeing actual justice served. Expediency over rights, convenience over fairness. Far more expedient and convenient for Peter and Paul both to toss the accused under the bus and either placate the accuser (if the accusation be false) or relieve her of the chance to see her assailant punished (if the accusation be true).

I'm SO glad I don't go to or work at anything like a college these days. They sound like they've become utter nuthouses, and very pricey ones at that.

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