I agree with you on this. There is a real problem with campus sexual assault, but how schools go about investigating it is haphazard and without due process. I used to work in higher education in my twenties and was involved with one sexual assault “investigation”. It was an embarrassment. Investigation started due to…

What about a person accused of a single sexual assault with no physical evidence beyond the victim’s testimony of lack of consent, who has not been convicted in a court of law? ... Would allowing that person on campus be a breach of the university’s duty to the safety of their other students?

When someone brought up teaching sexual consent at the very young age, my initial thought was “You can’t teach sex education to 5 year olds.”

The rights of alleged rapists? When did we start convicting people before they were actually convicted? An alleged anything has all the rights of you or me. Its when they are no longer alleged that they should lose their rights.

I agree with everything you’re saying, but from a practical point of view do the rights of alleged rapists to have a clean transcript trump the safety of other students? If a serial rapist transferred to my university after raping 12 women at another school. There’s no way that a school would be allowed to know his…

we need to teach people how not to be victims as well as teach people not to be predators

I don’t think colleges do necessarily do criminal background checks. In any case, an offense that was handled on campus, rather than by outside law enforcement, wouldn’t show up on a criminal check. Nor would a student have been convicted of a crime, so he or she could legitimately answer no to any application…

i guess what i mean here is that from a young age, children are taught that hurting someone, stealing, killing, drugs, etc.. are wrong and illegal.

Why are schools investigating them at all? They are a criminal matter. The police should be handling it. If convicted, there is a permanent record. If acquitted, then the person is not guilty. Or is that just too logical?

For the life of me I entirely don’t understand why American Universities can investigate and try sex assaults in some weird thing that exists outside of the criminal justice system. o.O

Would this open up even more legal action for the lack of due process colleges show when adjudicating issues of sexual assault?

I love paper, I love writing, I have tons of books - but man, I love the Paperwhite. So light and convenient, battery lasts forever. I honestly keep mine in my backpack every time it’s not being read or charged.

As a bald woman your use of “hair trigger” triggers my triggers.

To be clear, the problem is not that Rachel Dolezal implied that a light-skinned student’s white privilege precluded her from being a legitimate participant in a discussion on racial discrimination. That belief is shared by most of the “respectable” commenters around here. The problem is the hypocrisy of her doing so…

White Hispanics are every bit as “ethnic” as darker-skinned Hispanics. People really need to stop using “ethnic” as a synonym/shorthand for non-white. Believe it or not, even white folks have ethnic backgrounds. This makes no sense.

Very white hispanic here. That would’ve been super awkward. I would’ve replied in Spanish with some insults here and there and then asked her if I was hispanic enough now

You’re both playing identity politics. Just stop. Being more disadvantaged than someone else doesn’t give you any moral high ground. this is exactly why this crazy lady became black. Because it gave her power in the weird identity politic world of a modern university.

Wow.

WHO CARES!

I think he means in the sense of (similar to Fury Road) how Furiosa is kinda the one that is the main plot of this movie. Pratt’s character doesn’t really “evolve” or have a real arc. He is brought into the story by Bryce. Having seen the movie I would agree. Pratt is DEFINATELY the focus of commercials and trailers…