College blocks man from housing access for reminding student of her rapist

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2015-02-18 10:36

Story here. Excerpt:

'... She discovered a essay recently authored by Professor Janet Halley in the Harvard Law Review that should boil the blood of anyone concerned with quaint notions like justice and due process.

"I recently assisted a young man who was subjected by administrators at his small liberal arts university in Oregon to a month-long investigation into all his campus relationships, seeking information about his possible sexual misconduct in them (an immense invasion of his and his friends’ privacy), and who was ordered to stay away from a fellow student (cutting him off from his housing, his campus job, and educational opportunity) — all because he reminded her of the man who had raped her months before and thousands of miles away. He was found to be completely innocent of any sexual misconduct and was informed of the basis of the complaint against him only by accident and off-hand. But the stay-away order remained in place, and was so broadly drawn up that he was at constant risk of violating it and coming under discipline for that."

“When the duty to prevent a ‘sexually hostile environment’ is interpreted this expansively, it is affirmatively indifferent to the restrained person’s complete and total innocence of any misconduct whatsoever,” Halley noted.'

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Wait...is this a real news report or not?? The name of the college is not even identified, and I am not familier with this news source.

Edit: so this is one of those 'articles about an article'. If you click on the link to The Harvard Law Review, you get to the original article written by Janet Haley reflecting on some legal cases she has come across in her past (I am not sure if Ms. Halley is/was an actual practicing attorney or if she is a legal journalist.) There are no dates for the incident other than it says it happened over a decade ago. The college is not identified. The male and female subjects are not identified. It does not even say how the man was ordered to stay away from the girl (was it a court order? and what were the details of the order?)

It even says this: "...[he] was informed of the basis of the complaint against him only by accident and off-hand"

I would like more details beofore I take this at full face value.

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Submitted by Kris on Wed, 2015-02-18 18:26