With you 100% on that. I also feel that Assange and Snowden shouldn’t be mentioned in the same breath. One is a whistleblower; the other is a self-righteous information broker with no sense of proportion and delusions of Godhood.

The court case documents are online for public view, and actually, yes, a lot of people have read them. I suggest you do the same, because they’re not only horrific but also pretty damning, and you might change your tune re: Parker’s innocence. The friend was only acquitted because the victim didn’t want to testify…

If you actually looked at the court case you would see he was let off because the girl had oral sex with him the night before. Rape culture got him off. His co-rapist was found guilty.

Yes—there are a lot of wtf absurdities going on here, but one of them is Trump pretending to care about women being sexually assaulted. Since when do you care Trump, since when?

Seems pretty murder-y to me.

These are matters that should be handled by police departments, bottom line.

Because the police are so well known for taking sexual assualt seriously.

Not everyone wants to go to the police, often because of what they are subjected to as a result. It’s odd that you would mention the university trying to shame the victim without acknowledging that the police often do the same thing.

Cheating on an exam is not against the law, but most schools will have some process to expel students for cheating. Student gets accused, student defends him/herself in front of a committee, committee decides if the evidence is bad enough for expulsion, and if so, bye bye. Police investigation has nothing to do with…

Nope. Title IX guarantees equal access and opportunities to women. They must provide a safe educational environment free from sexual assault or harassment. The fact that the campus doesn’t have clear policies on how to proceed in these situations is the problem as sexual assault is hardly a new campus phenomenon.

OK, so let’s say we do. Do you know how long it takes for a rape case to go to trial? Do you know how many actually even make it to a courtroom rather than getting dismissed for lack of evidence/police douche-baggery? Do you know what the conviction rates are?

You don’t need a conviction to expell someone from a school.

I wish that were the answer. In SO many “college towns” (all of mine, at least), the city cops worked very clearly in collusion with the college in order to, essentially, keep the students happy because...............yummy tuition dollars and local business interests. White males were especially happy.

You know you can report to both the police and a school’s Title IX officer, right? it’s not either/or

Well, that’s not what the Department of Education says. Under Title IX, schools (all schools . . . K-12 and above) are REQUIRED to investigate allegations of sexual harassment—with rape considered a form of that harassment. If schools do not investigate and act, federal funding (think: student loans) can be removed…

Should workplaces be required to not fire sexual harassers?

Well there are tens of thousands of high schools and junior high schools you should get this message out to as well because they’ve been suspending and expelling students for years for things that aren’t even crimes.

If your first step is telling victims what to do, you’re already going down the wrong path.

Sure they are. But whether a student reports to the police or not, he or she should have someone to report these things to on campus. Victims shouldn’t have to drop out of school or face being confronted with their rapist every day, and remain in danger of being attacked a second time. Colleges have a responsibility…

...And yet, they nonetheless have a responsibility and obligation to ensure equal access to a safe learning environment for their students. If your rapist is on campus, you don’t have that, and you shouldn’t be the one who loses out.