We've reached peak absurdity when it comes to campus sexual assault

Article here. Excerpt:

'An autistic student, previously expelled from his college for mistakenly hugging a stranger, has been reinstated.

Brian Ferguson, a 20-year-old with autism attending special-needs classes at Navarro College in Texas, had been expelled for sexual assault. But what he did that constitutes sexual assault will leave you scratching your head.

Ferguson is 6’5” and gives hugs to his friends with a kiss on the top of their head since he towers over them. A week ago, that got him expelled. The problem arose when Ferguson thought he saw a woman he recognized and gave her one of his trademark greetings — except that the woman was a stranger.

"And then [the school] labeled it 'sexual assault' because of the kissing,” Ferguson’s mother, Staci Martin, told NBC. “They said a kiss is considered an assault."
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When she found out that Ferguson had been expelled over the incident, she thought it was "ridiculous."

Bruton and Ferguson met this week and exchanged gifts. They even hugged.

"You can give me a hug,” Bruton told Ferguson. “It’s OK.”

Colleges have not only been ineffective in adjudicating sexual assault, but they seem to be uniquely lacking in common sense when the issue arises, as Ferguson's story illustrates. Luckily, sanity prevailed in his case. It doesn't always, though.'