Editorial demands stop to Title IX inquisition “insanity”

Article here. Excerpt:

'So far, 2015 looks like a pretty bad year for Title IX — and mainly because it has finally turned on the academic class that wielded it for their own purposes. The recent experiences of Professor Laura Kipnis, as well as the Rolling Stone hoax on the subject of “campus rape” and the use of ludicrously inflated statistics to feed what Kipnis calls “sexual paranoia” on campus, have put the moral panic in stark relief. An essay by a pseudonymous untenured academic on Vox underscored just how badly “higher education” has Bowdlerized itself in attempting to survive the latest witch hunt...
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The New York Daily News has had enough of Title IX enforcement on speech, calling the result “thought crimes on campus.” The editors blasted the Obama administration’s guidances on Title IX that demanded low standards of proof for administrative review of allegations, and the star chambers that have erupted as a result. It’s time for Congress to intervene to put an end to the “insanity,” they write:

"Madness has been unleashed on college campuses — not by drunken frat boys but by the White House.

A wildly mishandled Obama administration campaign to combat student sexual assaults has morphed under a federal gender-equality law into a nightmarish weapon against free speech and academic freedom."'