Don’t be stupid and pretend Title IX requires colleges to police off-campus conduct

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The University of Kansas isn’t getting any love from its rival, in a legal fight that tests whether colleges must police the off-campus conduct of their students under Title IX anti-harassment policies.

As The College Fix previously reported, KU is defending the propriety of its expulsion of a student whose alleged harassment of his ex-girlfriend took place over the summer, off campus. The student also called his ex a “psycho bitch” on Twitter, though he blocked her from his feed.

KU pointed to the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) “Dear Colleague” letter from 2011 as justification for its punishment of the student, as the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) notes.

Kansas State University filed a friend-of-the-court brief arguing against KU, pointing to Title IX language that bars discrimination “under any education program or activity” – meaning the school must have “substantial control” over the harasser and “the context in which the known harassment occurs.”'