A ‘scarlet letter’ for students implicated in sex assaults: D.C. bill sparks debate

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'No one said this was an easy issue. As people considered a bill from D.C. Council member Anita Bonds aimed at preventing campus sexual assault, in part by requiring colleges to permanently mark the transcript of a student found responsible by school officials for a sexual assault, they tended to look at the extremes.

They talked about cases in which a student attacked another, got expelled and transferred easily to another college — only to assault another victim.

And they talked about cases in which a student was falsely accused, unable to assert his innocence in a campus investigation, then branded as a rapist.
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Stuart Taylor, an author who has written extensively about campus sexual assault, said a permanent mark would be appropriate if there were a criminal conviction.

“The problem with the college proceedings is they’re wildly unreliable, wildly inconsistent with the presumption of innocence and due process,” Taylor said. They’re incapable of being fair, he argued, without the resources to fully investigate evidence, without the power to subpoena witnesses, without the standards of a criminal proceeding."'