Advocates want black mark on college transcripts for campus sexual assault

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'One group pushing for more college involvement in campus sexual assault accusations wants to make sure there's a black mark on the transcripts of any student punished for assault or harassment.

This suggestion by the Association of Title IX Administrators might be a good one if today's campus climates were different. As matters stand, not one in which students who probably didn't commit acts of sexual violence are routinely punished anyway.

To brand someone a rapist based on colleges' preponderance of evidence standard — that is, based on 50.01 percent certainty the assault happened — is a dangerous precedent in itself. To brand someone for life in this way, effectively making transfers impossible, is even worse. I get where ATIXA is coming from, but if we're going to try and keep a student from having a future, we probably need more certainty that he deserves it.

Currently, young college men are being expelled based on accusations without evidence, thanks to federal rules from the Department of Education. Many of these young men are fighting back by suing their universities for denying them due process. Colleges and universities are incentivized to punish students based on accusations alone, rather than to conduct a fair hearing that might result in a finding of "not responsible" and bring down federal pressure.'