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Kirsten Pabst

By 2014, OCR was investigating 90 colleges for possible Title IX violations in their handling of sexual assault complaints. Campuses were in full panic mode—with calls for censorship and trigger warnings for sensitive material. At last count, 56 young men found responsible for sexual misconduct were suing their schools, alleging that they were denied due process and fair treatment in star chamber proceedings.

When Rolling Stone published its apocryphal article about a sadistic and premeditated fraternity gang rape at the University of Virginia, many who should have known better took it seriously. It was a Gothic fantasy nurtured by specious statistics, poorly designed studies, and panic. The writers and editors at Rolling Stone are to blame for publishing the story. But it was the investigative journalists at NPR and the Center for Public Integrity who made it all seem real.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/23/the-media-is-making-college-rape-culture-worse.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 
Wow, 57 lawsuits and counting by young men against Universities based on the lower standard of proof approved by our own Engstrom by putting his signature to a document he later admitted he had not read violating the rights of the students he ostensibly was hired to protect.

http://www.avoiceformalestudents.com/list-of-lawsuits-against-colleges-and-universities-alleging-due-process-violations-in-adjudicating-sexual-assault/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/opinion/sunday/the-best-way-to-address-campus-rape.html?_r=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
What explains the nearly universal lack of confidence in these proceedings? Universities share some of the blame, but there’s another culprit too: the United States government. People often wonder why college administrators try to adjudicate these fiendishly difficult cases, rather than putting them in the hands of the criminal justice system.

The reason is that the Department of Education has very forcefully told schools to handle sexual grievances themselves and given them very detailed instructions about how to do so. A report last year from a White House task force on campus sexual assault underscored the importance to a university of following that advice. Even though the D.O.E.’s instructions are presented as recommendations rather than law, its Office for Civil Rights can put any school that fails to follow them on the list of colleges under investigation and even take away its federal funding.
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Thanks to our very own RE.

Meanwhile, false accusations continue to put men in jail. http://www.newschannel9.com/news/top-stories/stories/man-cleared-rape-charge-speaks-nc9-exclusive-15657.shtml#.VP5D9p-fcqM.twitter" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 
Department of Education regulations forcing colleges and universities to create pseudo-court systems to handle campus sexual assault are interfering with schools’ core mission to educate, according to a bipartisan report from a task force for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

The report was designed to offer solutions for easing regulatory burdens on colleges, which have exploded in recent years.

“Over time, oversight of higher education by the Department of Education has expanded and evolved in ways that undermine the ability of colleges and universities to serve students and accomplish their missions,” the report said. “The compliance problem is exacerbated by the sheer volume of mandates — approximately 2,000 pages of text — and the reality that the Department of Education issues official guidance to amend or clarify its rules at a rate of more than one document per work day.” . . .

Regulations relating to Title IX, the report says, have only been formally implemented three times: in 1975, 2000 and 2006. But since then, the Department’s Office for Civil Rights, which oversees Title IX compliance, has been creating new regulations stemming from the infamous 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter regarding campus sexual assaults.

“While OCR strenuously maintains that the letter does not add requirements to applicable law, the reality is that these standards impose serious additional responsibilities and break new policy ground,” the report said.

These new requirements are for colleges and universities to adjudicate accusations of sexual assault — a separate justice system that has been labeled a “kangaroo court” — which has led to lawsuits from both accusers and the accused that the system is biased.
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Thanks to our very own RE.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/bipartisan-group-calls-for-education-dept.-reform-regarding-campus-sexual-assault/article/2560493" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 
As I noted over two years ago, the University of Montana campus was one of the safest places female students could be. Engstrom refused to say that.

http://blogs.reuters.com/data-dive/2015/03/25/tracking-rape-on-and-off-campus/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 
The damage is done, even at the prestigious University of Virginia, Jefferson's University, when its President acts complicit in false allegations of rape, instead of defending her Institution.

"No one wants to attend a rape school."

http://www.mrctv.org/blog/video-uva-students-upset-rolling-stone-magazines-rape-allegations#.iy7dvi:fnEW" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone, concedes that the accuser was "a really expert fabulist storyteller."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/business/media/rolling-stone-retracts-article-on-rape-at-university-of-virginia.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Indeed, the reason she was so successful was that, like at the Missoulian, she found an arrogant reporter, willing to be complicit seeking the specific story to make "her" name, possibly win a Pulitzer Prize, who believed she was smarter than everyone else, and who claimed she had a "finely tuned bullshit detector and when it goes off I pay close attention because it doesn’t tend to go off without a reason. I’m not a person who assumes that everything is bullshit. If something strikes me as being off I tend to question more deeply about that thing.” Except in this case, where she apparently discovered the Reverse Gear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=C53aSufU02I" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Missoulian's version now teaches at the UM Journalism School. She teaches a course called, "Reporting," which is surely only an intended, ultimate irony.

These people consider themselves "the smart ones."
 
Meanwhile our student population continues to slide down... and again thanks to Royce.

Florio is beyond safe jokes around the U. I can even smell the hate way up in Northern Canada!
 
http://suzannevenker.com/the-truth-about-the-so-called-rape-culture/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

There is no rape culture on campus. (Note I didn’t say no one’s ever been raped on campus.) What there is is an awful lot of gray between the sheets. And this phenomenon exists because, for one thing, two people are drunk—which is a problem in itself—and because women are under the impression their libidos are the same as men’s. They are not. When women have sex, it isn’t recreational. It’s significant. That is why women sometimes lie about having been raped. They’re distraught over the previous night’s (or previous year’s) events.

Yes, women lie about rape. (If this upsets you to hear, you have an undeniable bias against men. Your knee-jerk reaction is that men are inherently bad and women are inherently good.) They lie because not many women are able to have sex for fun and walk away unscathed. That’s why they’re almost always drunk when the sexual liaison occurs.
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75 U R right on.

As mentioned earlier I will do my best behind the scenes. I doubt if I can influence RE etc. but I plan to give it a go...
 
UMGriz75 said:
http://suzannevenker.com/the-truth-about-the-so-called-rape-culture/

There is no rape culture on campus. (Note I didn’t say no one’s ever been raped on campus.) What there is is an awful lot of gray between the sheets. And this phenomenon exists because, for one thing, two people are drunk—which is a problem in itself—and because women are under the impression their libidos are the same as men’s. They are not. When women have sex, it isn’t recreational. It’s significant. That is why women sometimes lie about having been raped. They’re distraught over the previous night’s (or previous year’s) events.

Yes, women lie about rape. (If this upsets you to hear, you have an undeniable bias against men. Your knee-jerk reaction is that men are inherently bad and women are inherently good.) They lie because not many women are able to have sex for fun and walk away unscathed. That’s why they’re almost always drunk when the sexual liaison occurs.
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hey, let's all play the stereotyping game! you are showing your age, 75. it is 2015, not 1950. umissus will look into it behind the scenes to verify.
 
statler & waldorf said:
...said the 13 year old girl with her grownup computer.

"I never did give them hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell." - Harry Truman.
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how ironic, i was just remarking to my cat how much you and harry truman are like two peas in a pod. on a related subject, it seems to me that you and the woman quoted by 75 must have self-images nearly as conflated as the clown posting on jezebel.com. you all have much more in common than you want to admit.
 
argh! said:
UMGriz75 said:
http://suzannevenker.com/the-truth-about-the-so-called-rape-culture/

There is no rape culture on campus. (Note I didn’t say no one’s ever been raped on campus.) What there is is an awful lot of gray between the sheets. And this phenomenon exists because, for one thing, two people are drunk—which is a problem in itself—and because women are under the impression their libidos are the same as men’s. They are not. When women have sex, it isn’t recreational. It’s significant. That is why women sometimes lie about having been raped. They’re distraught over the previous night’s (or previous year’s) events.

Yes, women lie about rape. (If this upsets you to hear, you have an undeniable bias against men. Your knee-jerk reaction is that men are inherently bad and women are inherently good.) They lie because not many women are able to have sex for fun and walk away unscathed. That’s why they’re almost always drunk when the sexual liaison occurs.
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hey, let's all play the stereotyping game! you are showing your age, 75. it is 2015, not 1950. umissus will look into it behind the scenes to verify.
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Yes, popular white college Quarterback. Let's stereotype why he was so important to the "story" .... whereas wealthy Muslim assailant in multiple violent sexual assaults, ... not so much.
 
UMGriz75 said:
argh! said:
UMGriz75 said:
http://suzannevenker.com/the-truth-about-the-so-called-rape-culture/

There is no rape culture on campus. (Note I didn’t say no one’s ever been raped on campus.) What there is is an awful lot of gray between the sheets. And this phenomenon exists because, for one thing, two people are drunk—which is a problem in itself—and because women are under the impression their libidos are the same as men’s. They are not. When women have sex, it isn’t recreational. It’s significant. That is why women sometimes lie about having been raped. They’re distraught over the previous night’s (or previous year’s) events.

Yes, women lie about rape. (If this upsets you to hear, you have an undeniable bias against men. Your knee-jerk reaction is that men are inherently bad and women are inherently good.) They lie because not many women are able to have sex for fun and walk away unscathed. That’s why they’re almost always drunk when the sexual liaison occurs.
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hey, let's all play the stereotyping game! you are showing your age, 75. it is 2015, not 1950. umissus will look into it behind the scenes to verify.
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Yes, popular white college Quarterback. Let's stereotype why he was so important to the "story" .... whereas wealthy Muslim assailant in multiple violent sexual assaults, ... not so much.
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my issue is mostly with the author's stereotyping the behavior of men. while indirect, she pretty clearly advances the stereotype of men having a greater proclivity to have sex for "fun" than women. my experience is that few people, male or female, have sex for nothing more than fun/recreation, i.e. without emotional attachment. which is probably too bad for all of us.
 
As it turns out, people like sex. And even though our popular culture is inundated with sexual imagery and innuendo, in television, films, music, visual arts, advertising, etc., we perpetuate all these double-standards about sex. Which helps explain why men and women aren't very good at talking about sex. I blame religion, porn and politics. We're way too awkward and repressed and hypocritical and backwards. It's time for humans to evolve.
 
argh! said:
UMGriz75 said:
http://suzannevenker.com/the-truth-about-the-so-called-rape-culture/

There is no rape culture on campus. (Note I didn’t say no one’s ever been raped on campus.) What there is is an awful lot of gray between the sheets. And this phenomenon exists because, for one thing, two people are drunk—which is a problem in itself—and because women are under the impression their libidos are the same as men’s. They are not. When women have sex, it isn’t recreational. It’s significant. That is why women sometimes lie about having been raped. They’re distraught over the previous night’s (or previous year’s) events.

Yes, women lie about rape. (If this upsets you to hear, you have an undeniable bias against men. Your knee-jerk reaction is that men are inherently bad and women are inherently good.) They lie because not many women are able to have sex for fun and walk away unscathed. That’s why they’re almost always drunk when the sexual liaison occurs.
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hey, let's all play the stereotyping game! you are showing your age, 75. it is 2015, not 1950. umissus will look into it behind the scenes to verify.
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A socialist plus an ageist , stunning combination.
 
spsyk said:
argh! said:
UMGriz75 said:
http://suzannevenker.com/the-truth-about-the-so-called-rape-culture/

There is no rape culture on campus. (Note I didn’t say no one’s ever been raped on campus.) What there is is an awful lot of gray between the sheets. And this phenomenon exists because, for one thing, two people are drunk—which is a problem in itself—and because women are under the impression their libidos are the same as men’s. They are not. When women have sex, it isn’t recreational. It’s significant. That is why women sometimes lie about having been raped. They’re distraught over the previous night’s (or previous year’s) events.

Yes, women lie about rape. (If this upsets you to hear, you have an undeniable bias against men. Your knee-jerk reaction is that men are inherently bad and women are inherently good.) They lie because not many women are able to have sex for fun and walk away unscathed. That’s why they’re almost always drunk when the sexual liaison occurs.
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hey, let's all play the stereotyping game! you are showing your stupidity, 75. it is 2015, not 1950. umissus will look into it behind the scenes to verify.
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A socialist plus an ageist , stunning combination.
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you are right, i was being ageist. i edited to remove the prejudice.
 
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