Title IX Investigations Are a Total Mess

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'Let's get this out of the way early: anyone with a functional brain is in favor of equal treatment under the law and everyone is against rape. Just like everyone is against murder and assault and any other crime that injures another human being.

Now that this is out of the way, let's ask a big question that never gets asked: why are universities responsible for investigating rape accusations? The answer is because they're required to conduct investigations under the auspices of Title IX. It's a well intentioned application of federal law -- premised on the idea that sexual assault on campus is a problem that needs to be treated seriously -- but it creates as many, if not more, problems than it actually remedies. Because it sets up two different simultaneous investigations with different standards of proof and different consequences while also creating two divergent potential outcomes.
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If a serious crime happens on campus just about everyone would say that it's the job of local police to investigate that crime. That's because we understand that conducting criminal investigations is time consuming, difficult, and freighted with the obligations to implement that investigation consistent with applicable state and federal law. No college or university has an adequate investigatory staff to determine who committed a murder and assess guilt or innocence. Moreover, the very idea of a college conducting a hearing based on whether a murder happened and applying its own standard of proof and rules of evidence and confrontation rules in that case is laughable.

So why is Title IX being applied to require colleges to conduct investigations into sexual assault?'