Actually, @shawnspenser you are mistaking me for another poster on this thread and your “mansplain” falls a bit short. There are plenty of reasons to report a false accusation - I’ve personally known of a few myself, and we’ve seen some high profile ones in recent years with legal consequences for the particular schools and the news media. And you might start to look up a few accurate stats on some basic things like male vs. female success rates in school, the gender gap in college enrollment, incarceration rates by gender, incidence of violent death, etc. to better understand just how frightening it would be to raise a girl. Hint: It’s not. And I say that as a mother of both.
As for the disgusting behavior of our leaders in media and entertainment (how thoughtful of you to point out the only two men of color who stand accused or convicted while conveniently skipping over the dozens of white men in the same - or worse - boat), their behavior should put all of them away for a long time. How mysterious it is that so many powerful women leaders who were as aware of these “open secrets” as so many seem to be at UChicago about the DU episodes actually chose not to speak out for years. In MN we watched Sen. Amy Klobuchar squirm while her colleague - Sen. Al Franken the Breast-Squeezer - defy calls to step down before Kristin Gillibrand finally said “Enough” and then face other women turning on her for speaking out. There is no excuse for men’s criminal sexual behavior. There is no excuse for anyone - least of all women - to enable it.
@JHS - the simple distinction is that the Maroon is supposed to be known for reporting the news, not for warning all the daughters on campus against nefarious frat boys. That role is relegated to “mom” and “dad”, not “editor” and “journalist”. Admire your chivalry, though I do question the cheerful twisting of journalistic standards to defend the virtue of the 1st and 2nd year women. Do keep in mind that, according to “the news”, these rumors were already widely known so not sure how much good the Maroon did - other than to drag a name through the mud in case something else might stick to it. So you believe that the Maroon should spend its resources that way? Seems a bit lazy. I thought news people used sources and checked facts and so forth. We don’t want “fake news” to define the Maroon.
Incidentally, my kid was far too busy with her studies to be attending DU parties this past year and we are glad to notice that her college experience is reflected in her GPA and growing wisdom, rather than an obsession with the frat scene (which @DunBoyer has convinced me isn’t just on the side of those enjoying the parties). I would hope most of the women on campus make choices more similar to hers than to the bizarrely-behaved examples you provided in comment #18.