No feminists say it explicitly, but in my experience if you listen to an anti sex work feminist talk long enough on the subject they’ll get around to how commercialized sex is damaging to all women, not just the women engaged in sex work. And the reasoning really does boil down to — legalized prostitution floods the…

The history of Yale’s punishments are irrelevant here. Yale isn’t a law enforcement agency, who knows what their motives are for why they did what they did. To simply say, “well they punished him, so he must have done something wrong” is giving way too much credit to an institution that you just stated had a lousy…

Someone else has already pointed out the fact that being given the chance to appeal is not the same as requiring the appeal to be heard.

You underestimate institutional overreaction, no one has any facts about this case, but please continue to assume something bad must have happened because he was punished.

“Also, even in real courts, you are still only entitled to file a motion for an appeal, not to have the appeal heard. Motions for appeal get denied far more often than not.”

Has there ever been a study on the efficacy of anti-sexual assault training? I feel like it wouldn’t work. As someone who has no interest in raping people, I would find it a waste of time, but I assume the kind of people who rape people would find it a waste of time for the opposite reason.

This is a nice gesture, but people who commit sexual assault already know what they’re doing is wrong, so I’m not sure if it will help. Hopefully I’m wrong.

My dad used to joke that he would get spammed with ads for Viagra and for penile enlargement but no one ever offered a bigger hand.

Yes, but they didn’t follow them by refusing to even hear the appeal.

The point that you can not seem to grasp is that sexual assault is a criminal offense, and affords the defendant a group of rights that a defendant in a simple plagiarism case does not enjoy, and therefore when you strip those rights away, refuse to even hear an appeal, you are probably violating a student’s civil…

Give him an appeal for starters.

Some due process, such as an appeal, should be granted in any disciplinary process.

Not to stereotype or anything but dating bartenders is usually a bad idea. And if you must, don’t expect anything more than a good time and be sure to USE CONDOMS.

ahh yes....assume its true because it was written on a bathroom stall. Good detective work there genius

Privacy goes both ways and I think activists need to stop having tunnel vision when it comes to issues of privacy and freedom of expression. Those same laws that prevent them from doxxing rapists found guilty in the school system, also protect the privacy of victims, and you can’t have one without the other. And in…

Boom....nailed it! No appeal??.....wtf is this world coming to? He has a right to defend himself.

So he’s a sure thing?

Yeah, they handled this very poorly.

Honestly, it sounds like feminist organisations at Yale (and in general, because this isn’t the first time arguments like this are made) want it both ways - they’re against freedom of expression and want it curtailed when they don’t like what’s being said, and against privacy and confidentiality clauses when it means…

Blake Thomson ’16, a childhood friend of Montague who said he knows the facts of the complaint and subsequent case, wrote in a statement to the News that he believes the UWC’s policies have multiple “flaws and controversies.”