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| 2015-06-03 |
| h/t Instapundit Madness has been unleashed on college campuses -- not by drunken frat boys but by the White House. A wildly mishandled Obama administration campaign to combat student sexual assaults has morphed under a federal gender-equality law into a nightmarish weapon against free speech and academic freedom. The statute, called Title IX, obligates colleges to act on sexually related complaints to protect students from a hostile environment. But enforcement now encompasses any member of a college community deemed by an accuser to have prompted discomfort in connection with his or her sex. IMO, this is a bit more serious than ISIS. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #3 I'm much more cynical on this. As Obama has personally continued to push this process with "stats" that are known to be pure BS, he is personally invested in this. It hasn't "morphed"into anything it wasn't designed to be: a govt funded experiment in crushing due process rights. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2015-06-03 14:31 |
| #2 John, she has already been accused, had her day in Kangaroo Court, been charged by two other female students with "retaliation" and been found not guilty. She was denied any semblance of due process to the point of being denied access to the charges against her and being denied an attorney at the inquisition. She was allowed a "support person" who was the charged by the two students. I don't have a lot of sympathy for her as she was part of the Femminist movement that |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2015-06-03 09:25 |
| #1 Kipnis had criticized the ban for casting professors as all-powerful predators and female students as helpless damsels, thus denying students experience navigating the complex realities of sex. OMG, Kipnis better be careful, she might get sent to some left-wing gulag to get her head shrunk to pea size for her Title IX offense. Maybe she should look into Hillsdale College as a possible job opportunity. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-06-03 08:05 |