Campuses Under Federal Review Over Sexual Assault Investigations
Article here. Excerpt:
'The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has opened three investigations this year into Texas universities — Texas A&M University, the University of Houston and Trinity University — over how they handled allegations of sexual violence on their campuses, documents obtained by The Texas Tribune show.
Such federal inquiries have generally been spurred by accusations that universities didn’t do enough to punish students accused of rape or harassment.
But at least one of the Texas campuses currently under review — Texas A&M — is being investigated for the opposite: a claim that administrators went too far when they suspended a male student accused of assaulting a female classmate.
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The male student denied abusing the female student; a police investigation resulted in no criminal charges. But after a university disciplinary hearing, the male student was suspended for seven months. He complained to the school — and later to the Department of Education — that A&M’s system for investigating allegations of sexual violence was “flawed” and that he was penalized based on “lies.”
Those kinds of complaints from male students are increasingly common at universities, said Wendy Murphy, a professor at New England Law who specializes in sexual violence. Many men who have been suspended or kicked out of school over accusations of rape have sued their universities over claims of gender discrimination, she said.
“It’s not rare for a man to claim discrimination,” Murphy said. “It’s not rare for them to say that they want some kind of redress because they did not feel they were treated fairly.”'
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ah yes
the old tried and true false accusation ploy. it works in divorce court, it works in real court, why wouldn't it work in a kangaroo court?
wonder how many thousands of man-years of prison time (and who knows what else) can be chalked up to women holding grudges about a breakup, or trying to make a husband/bf jealous, or feeling bad the next day about giving in too easily, or a hundred other insane reasons?
its a good thing there are so many manginas around to enforce their insanity.