1 in 5 women get raped?

Harvard Law School violated federal law by giving more rights to accused students than to accusers in sexual harassment and assault cases, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights announced Tuesday.

that the scales hace veen stacvked against the accusers, NOT the attackers.

Faculty at the school criticized the policy in an October op-ed in the Boston Globe for a lacking "the most basic elements of fairness and due process," and being "overwhelmingly stacked against the accused."

the accusers got FEWER due proc4ess rights than the accused. //that's actual documented fact, snd Harvard has copped to it and changed.

Next in a real legal system the accuse who is facing possible punishment is the one with due process rights not the accuser.

Of course if there was any solid evidence of misdeeds that would come near the legal standards then the accuse would be facing a real criminal court.

The Federal mandated Kangaroo "courts" is an end run around such small problems to allow any male to be punish on only the word of a female with no real evidence needed.

As I say hyoud rather rant than look at the facts.

2014 Was the Year Colleges Finally Had to Answer for Rape on Campus
By Natalie Kitroeff
December 30, 2014

It has been three years since the government issued new guidelines for how colleges must handle sexual violence, but this was the year we learned just how badly our institutions needed them. Stories of sexual assaults on campuses—and mangled responses by colleges—made rape a dominant issue for American colleges and universities. Meanwhile, in response to those who criticized the coverage as sensational or downright overblown, a growing number of women revealed their own experiences of sexual assault at college. Here are the stories that fundamentally changed the way we think about sexual assault this year:

New York magazine chronicled the crusade of Emma Sulkowicz, a Columbia University student who began carrying a 50-pound mattress everywhere to represent the burden she carries after the university cleared the senior man she accused of rape. The alleged perpetrator, Paul Nungesser, told the New York Times this month that he has been unfairly maligned and humiliated thanks to Sulkowicz's allegations.

At the University of Virginia, a Rolling Stone article describing a supposed gang rape at a fraternity spurred broad criticism of the way the school deals with sexual assault allegations and prompted an ongoing effort among administrators to fix their approach to campus rape. Rolling Stone later retracted the article, after the Washington Post found deep factual irregularities in the account.

The New York Times detailed Hobart and William Smith Colleges' botched response to a student's claim that she had been raped by several members of the school's football team. The student body rallied around the woman and the college's board vowed radical changes to the school's culture and policies, BuzzFeed reported.

My colleague Claire Suddath documented the grassroots campaign to bring colleges to account for failing to properly adjudicate students' claims of sexual assault. A group of female students are filing complaints with the Department of Education, charging that the colleges violated women's rights under Title IX. In the process, Suddath reported, the student activists are "changing the way discipline occurs in the quiet, self-policed world of the college campus."

Bill Cosby has long faced accusations of sexual assault, but as the claims gathered momentum in recent months, several colleges severed ties with Cosby, a longtime benefactor and perennial commencement speaker. Of particular note: Cosby stepped down from his position on the board of trustees at Temple University, ending an unusually close relationship between the comedian and his alma mater. Spelman College, the historically black women's college and the inspiration for the Cosby Show spinoff A Different World, suspended an endowed professorship funded in part by a $20 million gift made by Cosby and his wife, Camille, in 1988.

These news stories, and the controversy over the Rolling Stone article in particular, prompted many women to tell their personal stories of rape on campus. Here are five:

Rachel Dodes Wortman, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who now works at Twitter, described being drugged and raped when she was a senior at Cornell University. "There are a series of blurry images, like a movie montage: us kissing on the couch, him carrying me to his bed, and then choking me while we had sex. I don’t remember saying 'No,' but I also think the issue of consent, in this particular instance, is not really applicable," she writes.

Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, wrote on Jezebel this month about having dinner with a "nice Jewish boy" who tried to rape her during the summer between her junior and senior years at college. She told her story, she said, because she was worried that the retraction of the Rolling Stone story would erect a "curtain of silence, where young women feel too afraid to share their truth."

Abigail Hauslohner, the Cairo bureau chief at the Washington Post, told the story of visiting a family friend at his college 14 years ago, going to a fraternity party, and being raped by the friend afterward in his dorm room. She recalls "my head lolling to one side and then my body falling back onto the mattress," before repeatedly saying "No."

In an essay in her book, Not That Kind of Girl, Lena Dunham wrote about being assaulted by a fellow Oberlin College student after leaving a party drunk and high. In a BuzzFeed post this month, Dunham described the backlash she faced for recounting the incident, including having her "character and credibility questioned at every turn" and being "attacked online with violent and misogynistic language."

Susan Dominus, a reporter for the New York Times Magazine, uses column space to chronicle an episode in her senior year of college, where she drank unidentified liquid from a red cup at a party and was later assaulted by the man who filled the cup for her: He pressured her, "until, under the influence, I stopped resisting."
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-30/2014-was-the-year-colleges-finally-had-to-answer-for-rape-on-campus

http://www.npr.org/2014/09/03/345312997/some-accused-of-campus-assault-say-the-system-works-against-them


Some Accused Of Sexual Assault On Campus Say System Works Against Them
SEPTEMBER 03, 2014 3:31 AM ET
Tovia Smith 2010
TOVIA SMITH

After years of criticism for being too lax on campus sexual assault, some colleges and universities are coming under fire from students who say the current crackdown on perpetrators has gone too far.

Dozens of students who've been punished for sexual assault are suing their schools, saying that they didn't get a fair hearing and that their rights to due process were violated. The accused students say schools simply are overcorrecting.

More than 70 campuses are under federal investigation for violating the civil rights of alleged victims, and some students say schools are running so scared that they're violating the due process rights of defendants instead.

"Right from the start, they treated me like I was the scum of the earth," says one young man, who was a sophomore at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst this past fall when he was told he was being investigated for sexual misconduct — and had just hours to move out of his dorm.

It started at a party. He says a classmate invited him to her room, asked him to bring a condom, texted her girlfriends about it, gave no signs of being drunk and repeatedly indicated that she wanted to have sex.

So, he says, they did.

"Then we kissed and fooled around for a few more hours, and then eventually she told me her roommate was coming back at some point and that I should leave, but that she had a lot of fun," he says.

In her version of events, according to a university report, she started to "freak out" shortly after he left. She began to feel pain throughout her body, and realized that something had happened, but she didn't know what. She told the school she had been drinking and had no memory of most of the night — until a day later when she remembered "him having sex with me and holding me down."

She told a friend, who told a dorm adviser, and two days later the school launched an investigation that he says was rigged from the start.

"They were going through the motions," he says. "I felt like I was just trapped in the tidal wave."

Dark Days

This student is one of several dozen now suing. He filed as John Doe, fearing damage to his reputation, and agreed to talk on condition of anonymity. The lawsuit identifies the victim as Jane Doe.

Some Accused Of Sexual Assault On Campus Say System Works Against Them

BillRM wrote:

Some Accused Of Sexual Assault On Campus Say System Works Against Them

Well they would, wouldn't they?

In a mild way I almost feel sorry for the universities as on the one hand they are being force to set up an unfair court systems under the threat of losing federal funding and on the other hands they are going to be more and more sued by the victims of those court systems in real courts for many dollars.

Of course my main concern is not the universities but the victims of these kangaroo courts.

Students Are 'Deluding Themselves'

Attorney Colby Bruno, who represents victims, says that just because a lot of young men are suing their schools doesn't mean the process is actually unfair — only that it suggests some students are having trouble adjusting to the changing norms on campus sexual assault.

"I don't have sympathy for the guy who assaults somebody and thinks he's been railroaded," Bruno says. "The cases where students are deluding themselves into thinking that what they did wasn't rape and sexual assault? I think those are 85 percent of boys coming forward saying, 'I was railroaded.' "

While numbers are hard to come by, she says there are still far more perpetrators getting away with a slap on the wrist than innocent students being wrongly expelled. She says false accusations are rare; far more often, real crimes go unreported.

http://www.npr.org/2014/09/03/345312997/some-accused-of-campus-assault-say-the-system-works-against-them