[JohnKreese]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/educ...story.html

Quote:

The new federal list of 55 colleges and universities with open “sexual violence investigations” includes some of the biggest names in higher education

Quote:

The list, released Thursday, continues the federal push to shine a spotlight on campus sex assaults in response to questions raised in recent years about how prominent colleges have handled rape allegations and related issues. This week, a White House task force released a report aiming to help colleges prevent sex assaults.

The first thing that jumps off the page is that the list is mainly comprised of elite schools, liberal arts colleges, and flagship institutions from places other than the South. Thoughts?

[Kingsley Davis]

Meh, a scheme to shore up female votes for the upcoming mid term elections.

[darklightdispatch]

Why should colleges "handle" rape investigations, anyway? Campus aren't like sovereign city-states. College students are supposedly adults, right? If a crime occurred, let the police investigate it and courts try it like any other alleged crime on U.S. soil.

[MrLemon]

This is a classic American witch hunt. Think McCarthyism, but actually worse since it's aimed squarely at boys in their sexually confused years.

55 universities translates into thousands of universities, since all universities are going to be watching this and acting accordingly.

It's a wholesale attack on young men's sexuality. Any father or mother who has a boy has to consider that it literally is no longer safe to send them to a university in the US. One felony sexual assault accusation can destroy their lives...forever, since felons cannot get jobs anywhere, any time. Even a plea bargain to avoid felony translates to adding your name to a sex criminal list, which also means shunned for life.

Step by step, men are being shoved into the underclass, with sexual assault as the leverage.

[Brodiaga]

(05-01-2014 06:14 PM)MrLemon Wrote:  

Step by step, men are being shoved into the underclass, with sexual assault as the leverage.

This is just another reminder for us men that the modern Western world is basically an ATM. Make your money and get the fuck out.

[mbare]

Never thought it would blow up the way it has in the military. Wow.

[ColSpanker]

How nice to see the wolves turn on each other. The Ivory Tower, which has been the source of so much bullshit, is now getting attacked by the very people it put in power. I can't wait for the tribunals and the college professors writing out a list of their sex crimes. I live for the day when Yale is shut-down and placed under control of a revolutionary council of the transgendered.

[Renzy]

(05-01-2014 04:13 PM)darklightdispatch Wrote:  

Why should colleges "handle" rape investigations, anyway? Campus aren't like sovereign city-states. College students are supposedly adults, right? If a crime occurred, let the police investigate it and courts try it like any other alleged crime on U.S. soil.

This was my thought as well. I honestly don't really understand how things like this can be handled by the university alone. If a crime has been committed why would the university not be letting the police investigate it? Is sexual assault the only area where universities handle things internally, rather than let the police do their jobs?

If there was a murder on campus I sure wouldn't expect one of these kangaroo courts to handle it ("he's been accused, he must be guilty!") so why is it any different for other crimes? Anyone with a legal background want to chime in here?

[iknowexactly]

(05-01-2014 07:24 PM)Renzy Wrote:  

(05-01-2014 04:13 PM)darklightdispatch Wrote:  

Why should colleges "handle" rape investigations, anyway? Campus aren't like sovereign city-states. College students are supposedly adults, right? If a crime occurred, let the police investigate it and courts try it like any other alleged crime on U.S. soil.

This was my thought as well. I honestly don't really understand how things like this can be handled by the university alone. If a crime has been committed why would the university not be letting the police investigate it?

I'm not a lawyer but I work in health care with some similar "higher standards" than regular law.

The college administrators want to have a lower bar to hurdle to call something sexual assault. So in an extreme case if you look at a girl's dorm room window as you walk by they can expel you for harassment.

They want to be able to punish things that the cops would not take action on because the cops would either see it as :

1) Not a crime

or

2) A possible crime for which there is not enough evidence to prosecute.

These college administrators think they are way smarter than the cops and the courts, who in the best case have a centuries-old tradition of focusing on provable material facts and getting to the truth.

[Jukes]

Damn , college is getting monitor like public schools now .

[RawGod]

(05-01-2014 07:43 PM)Jukes Wrote:  

Damn , college is getting monitor like public schools now .

Ain't that the truth. College students are no longer adults, they are infants subject to arbitrary rules and punishments. Well, at least the boy children are.

[Laurifer]

Saw this on Al-Jazeera America tonight. It also mentioned the statistic that 1 in 5 women will be sexually assaulted during their time in college. However, one of the issues that contributes to this rape hysteria is the shifting definition of sexual assault.

I guarantee these broads are claiming that they're victims for as little as a guy that goes in for a kiss and is rejected, while over the weekend shes at a party grinding her ass up against some stranger while Tyga is playing.

How is a young male in-coming freshman supposed to feel welcomed and excited for his college years when he is being viewed by others as a potential rapist and safety threat?

To me, this is sexual assault:



Not this:

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

The title made me think that the colleges were under investigation for their trampling of human rights of the accused and eliminating any semblance of due process. I smiled and thought: "finally"!

I was so naive.

[Slim Shady]

Funny thing is that some of these schools, my alma mater is one of them I think, have some of the biggest kangaroo court type systems for the sexual assault accused. These are the same places that are punishing men left and right at the first whisper of regret.

And when the appropriate vengeance has not been achieved, the same girls will push to higher powers and bring the hammer of the federal government onto the school for title 9 violations. The administration is now doubly scared and gets even more abusive against men, and social justice warrior types, who were never satisfied with even a single accused walking, are even more justified in their claims that sexual assaults are unfairly dealt with [which ironically, they are, but in the exact opposite way than what these cunts think]

[lurker]

(05-01-2014 07:24 PM)Renzy Wrote:  

If there was a murder on campus I sure wouldn't expect one of these kangaroo courts to handle it ("he's been accused, he must be guilty!") so why is it any different for other crimes? Anyone with a legal background want to chime in here?

They would absolutely 'handle it' in the same way they handle sexual assault cases: as a disciplinary measure for violation of the school's code of conduct. The reason we don't see these tribunals for murder should be obvious: murders are exceedingly rare on campuses, especially those featuring college students as both killer and victim. Murders also don't lend themselves to the same degree of factual determination as sexual assaults; you'll never see a college girl go out drinking, meet a charming young dormmate, mutually agree to let him shoot her in the head, and then decide weeks later after losing her tingles and talking extensively to the Women's Center feminists that she really regrets being dead and maybe it wasn't consensual after all.