Well meaning, but out of control

Article here. Excerpt:

'The 22 senators say in their letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee that OCR has gotten busier, with a lot of complaints to investigate. Of course it has.

After one investigation, OCR told the University of Montana that sexual harassment should be more broadly defined as “any unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature.” The university’s requirement that the conduct create a hostile environment, OCR said, was too limiting: the university ought to intervene, OCR said, before a hostile environment appears.

What?

A preemptive strike against harassment? You cannot get broader than that.

If we take seriously the idea that all unwanted speech with a possible sexual implication is harassment, anyone who asks a classmate on a date runs the risk that the invitation will be defined as harassment.

In just the past two months, four students who sued their universities over the way they treated them when they were accused of sexual misconduct have won victories at one stage or another in their cases, according to Inside Higher Ed. And now, Reason magazine reports, a student who received a multiyear suspension for what his “victim” consistently said was consensual sex has sued not only his school, but OCR too.

In its well-intentioned zealotry to defend women not only against real threats but against potential ones, the OCR has abandoned the concept of due process of law. It needs to be reined in.'