More Men Fight College Allegations of Sexual Assault

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'A former undergraduate student sued Cornell University, alleging the Ivy League school wrongly accused him of forcing himself on a female student.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday by a man referred to as John Doe, is the latest to be brought against a school amid a crackdown on campus sexual assaults. It contends Cornell violated his due-process rights when the school concluded he raped a fellow student after a party in December 2013 and then withheld his diploma.

The suit says the Ithaca, N.Y., university “cherry-picked witness statements,” “ignored important…statements” and judged the credibility of witnesses “without any ascertainable rationale or logic.”

A spokesman for Cornell declined to comment.

Since the start of last year, more than two dozen men have sued colleges and universities over such cases, largely alleging that the schools’ disciplinary processes are stacked against them. The number is a dramatic jump from just a few years ago.

Last week, a Boston College graduate sued the school, saying it failed to give him a fair hearing after accusing him of sexual assault.
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According to the lawsuit filed Thursday, Cornell decided to withhold the accused man’s diploma for two years after he finished his coursework. The punishment has made it difficult for the former student to find a job, said his lawyer, Andrew Miltenberg.

“The false allegations made against him and the resulting failures by an institution that he trusted continue to wreak havoc on his life,” said Mr. Miltenberg.'