I don’t understand why her friends let her leave alone, despite the argument. When I was in my “wild house party” days, my friends and I were like the Marines—never leave a person behind. We came as a group, we left as a group. This did lead to some awkward walks home and a few bitchy conversations, but I can proudly…

If the friends were drunk, they may not have been in a state of mind where they’d recognize a danger.

That’s what I was thinking! I went to college in Iowa. The winter of my sophomore year was a horrifically cold winter – it broke all sorts of all-time cold records and stayed that way for weeks. My friends and I only went out when we had to, but we had an unwritten rule that no one went out without a thick coat,…

I’m sure some of it is the administration and some, of course, is the victims deciding not to go through with the complaint. But I also would be willing to bet that some of those victims who decided not to go through with the complaint chose not to because of the administration. They may have seen how the…

boobs bad, dudes head butting each other into concussions good.

I’d make a face if someone whacked me in the arm too - no idea why this was such a big deal.

I wish I could star a million times.

I had a professor once tell me a very simple, very revealing thing. The law is not there to aid victims, it’s there to punish the guilty.

Not entirely. In general, a witness in a civil proceeding can’t invoke the Fifth. It’s referred to as “drawing the conjurer’s circle” (kind of like trying to place the cone of protection around yourself) and it’s very rarely upheld. If there is a reasonable expectation that you are going to be prosecuted for what you…

Yup, life by the sword, die by the sword,

Juries don’t declare mistrials. That’s what the judge is for.

Well fuck gang, that is why we should have moved the trial out of bmore.

Hell, I was answering work emails at the zoo last week. I miss not even knowing someone called until you got home and saw the blinky light on the answering machine. Damn technology.

Honestly though! The threat was at the school. They were at home. You're probably not dying.

I don’t know either. I think though it’s what happens when the judicial process is so politicized - you end up with longer, harsher sentences and less discretion for judges.

See, it’s not like the second court is going to find someone guilty who was declared entirely innocent in the first court - and again, almost always they just send it back down to the lower court to be retried. And the same appeal protections that cover plaintiffs, also cover defendants (I just realised I may have…

Much like omertà, in the mafia.

When your first instinct is a fight or flight response and you’re stacking trauma on top of it, the memory becomes a VERY faulty thing. It’s every tragic for the friend but it can happen.

I have a friend who actually was mugged while walking with his brother. The brother actually ran further towards danger to hide…

I think this campaign only truly makes sense if college is affordable, which it simply is not. If university were free here, cool! If community college or state college were completely affordable and could get you to where you wanted to be, cool!

My brother went to trade school to become an electrician and now makes more money than anyone else in the family by a wide margin.

While I support college (obviously, I went to one), these kinds of campaigns always make it seem like if you choose NOT to go, then you’re stunting your growth. Trade schools and…