You’re assuming the university didn’t have damning evidence against him, in which case character witnesses wouldn’t be necessary. Additionally, part of a university’s investigation usually involves talking to the student’s professors. It’s safe to assume a student in good standing with the university would be found…

Maybe, but if she were white, I doubt the police would have gotten a key from her landlord and entered her home to serve an arrest warrant for a traffic violation.

Assuming everything the police say is true (that she was armed and threatening the police), I still take issue with the fact that they entered her home using a key obtained from her landlord. I’m not sure if that’s legal (and would really appreciate some insight, if anyone knows more about the law than I do), but I am…

While I genuinely don’t know what to think at this point, I can say with some confidence that had this couple been white, the police would not have been entering their home with a key obtained from the landlord, which I’m fairly certain is illegal.

I’m gonna stop you right there: raping one of Columbia’s students is a violation of the code of conduct and is absolutely an offense against Columbia. Universities have every right to suspend/expel students that violate their code of conduct.

And he wasn’t expelled. He was suspended. He hasn’t been blacklisted…

That’s “threat of violence,” not coercion. You use these words, but I’m seriously beginning to doubt you actually know what they mean.

If you need a dictionary, let me know. You can borrow mine.

Those modifications don’t work at all. The woman accusing this man of rape is not the owner of Colombia University. The University is not an all-female one, in fact, the staff is predominantly male. And this man is not banned from all universities; he has been suspended from the one at which he was found guilty of…

“even though sexual coercion is not illegal or necessarily immoral.”

Legally, sexual coercion is sexual abuse. Morally, sexual coercion is reprehensible. Any form of coercion, for that matter, is immoral. Coercion = bad.

I cannot believe you would suggest otherwise.

This is a false equivalency. It would actually be more like this: a white man is accused by a black man of shoplifting in a Walmart. The black man claims to have seen him shoplift, but his full statement is sealed, along with any evidence Walmart might have found (they might even have caught him on camera, we don’t…

It is up to the victim whether or not she wants to pursue legal charges. It’s a terrible, lengthy process that fails victims more often than not. And if victims don’t want to get police involved, they should still be able to expect their school to keep them safe, preferably by expelling their rapists and banning them…

He wasn’t being denied due process; the school found him guilty of breaking their code of conduct, and took punitive action against him. It’s no different than when a school suspends a student for cheating.

I truly love how people get so up in arms about spoilers, demanding spoiler warnings, and yet many of those same people are the ones that refuse to even consider using trigger warnings.

....they were charge with negligence as well, which they’re obviously guilty of. But those charges didn’t stick either. Imagine that.

Not true. Sometimes they order Chinese from that pancake place.

I think those skins are fine, so long as the character is actually Native (I honestly have no idea whether she is or not), but they’re also not supposed to be a specific sacred deity, which makes those skins a little different.

For the record, my school is listed, and it doesn’t have any sports team. It’s an extremely liberal and rather small art school. Just goes to show that this happens everywhere.

Is it though? Had they not tried to sue the theater, they wouldn’t be in this situation.

I don’t know. This guy raped two women, and is clearly a threat to society, but he will not spend any time in jail, nor will he have to register as a sex offender for the charges he plead guilty to. He’s basically getting off free, with his actions practically legitimized.

Which pisses me off even more. It’s like the…

I could not agree more. I have absolutely no faith in the police here in Baltimore, and fully believe that they are directly responsible for Gray’s death, but sadly I am not surprised that the second degree murder charge didn’t stick. But being acquitted of the negligence charges is an outrage.

The defense argued that Gray moved from the position that he was put in (which could have easily been a result of being shackled in the backseat without a fucking seatbelt), and therefore put himself in a dangerous position.