This is the kind of change that we conservatives were looking for when they voted for Trump (and remember things would have gone even further in the other direction under Hillary).
It’s stuff like this along with Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and a friendlier approach to small business that make the tweets tolerable.
#keepingoureyesontheball.
Love and affection,
Baron
Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/title-ix-reforms-are-overdue/569215/
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Two can play that game.
The Atlantic always does a nice deep dive into subjects. I think they did a fair job on this one.
I like the development with regard to Title IX. I think the pendulum had swung too far and this pushes it back toward the middle. I have no problem with that. Just because Trump himself is Satan's "Fredo" doesn't mean there aren't some things the gazillion professionals around him can't occasionally fix.
I haven't read this piece yet, though.
As I said, it seems like a good thing. After all, I was poised to vote Republican until the Donald got the nomination. Obviously, when he does fairly centrist "Republican" stuff, it's more or less what I was looking for. This is one of those things.
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I can give you the stats for one school, which is probably typical. I know the person who runs the Student Affairs division here that handles this.
Every year, well over a hundred female students seek counseling for sexual assault and/or rape. Most go unreported.
12-15 move forward with charges. Half of those result in convictions.
It is not the case that there is some sort of rush to judgment on the males. The evidence has to be clear.
This is just nonsense, aimed a problem that exists only in right-wing imaginations.
You know, like most things you worry about.
Joseph Roberts, Kojo Bonsu, Amherst's John Doe, Alphonso Baity, Jordan Brown, Penn's John Doe, Austin Van Overdam.
There may be more true accusations than false ones - I don't doubt this. But the mere presence of any false accusations is why due process can't be tossed out the window in favor of the hyper-aggressive Obama policy or the angry mob-and-pitchfork mentality of the Me Too crowd.
What does exist is a bunch of university administrators trying to figure out how to adjudicate this issue, and how best to act in loco parentis here, while the usual suspects battle this out in the court of public opinion and try to win political points.
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There are predators out there, though. I bet we all knew some in college, the guys who you would not let your female friends be around under the wrong circumstances. A real small % of guys can screw up a lot of lives if they are never confronted.
Hillary, among others on the left, has recently had this "believe all accusers" mantra. Which culminated into "it's just a job interview, due process doesn't apply, Kavanaugh has no rights, etc.". Okay sure, fuck Kavanaugh, whatever. But shouldn't college students deserve a level of presumption of innocence where their futures are at stake?
I am not exposed to academia, but I'd be surprised in the "safe space" climate if Tulane and other universities aren't heavily leaning towards the lower end of standard of proof when it comes to sexual assault.
What standard of proof does Tulane apply to these cases? What due process exists?
Your McStats, don't prove a thing and you intentionally avoided my question and the content of the article.
As to your specific question, I dunno. I know that false rape accusations are rare - it is MUCH more common - by orders of magnitude - for rapists to get away scot free than for innocent people to be convicted.
The gray areas come into play when both sides were drunk (which is often the case). Those cases don't generally go anywhere, despite the few high-profile exceptions you hear about.
But no private university is beholden to the same standards of evidence that exist in a courtroom. They get to decide what punishments are appropriate, and how to judge guilt.
Not even the mythology from the teacher's lounge?
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For our sons during the Trumpo age. Not our daughters.
My wife is worried about our sons being falsely accused in the modern liberal age, in which there is a presumption of guilt, not innocence. That's something for liberals to be proud of...installing a Stalinesque system to handle these issues.
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Respeck.
I want to make their reading experience as wonderful as possible. See...I couldn't even do this one without an edit.
(Often I post a title quip, and then start adding body to it after that. I should probably slow down.)
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