Title IX & civil rights on campus.

mini
Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:27:59 +0000

“Dressing it up in obfuscatory terms doesn’t change anything–any more than using a different standard of proof than the one they say they are using does.”

Title IX is clear. It doesn’t mention rape or sexual assault once. You are the one who criticized the schools for dishonesty, not I. (I think that for the most part they use pretty good discretion, though clearly they have not investigated nearly enough cases. But that’s true of police and prosecutors as well.)

If the students feel they have been mistreated - such as the ones expelled from my alma mater - they can sue. All they’d have to show is that, by a preponderance of evidence, they were treated unfairly. The paucity of such suits speaks volumes. And, unlike before, under Title IX they are now guaranteed due process. (Wish that were true for cheating or plagiarism.)