If this is all some BIG issue...fine, let’s fix this. Remove colleges from handling this, and just hand the rape case over to the local prosecutor and let them use real state laws to handle the situation. The idea that college chancellors are somehow in the middle of this? No. Let the legal system handle what it’s built to handle. Same way with the military rape reports....hand it over to state prosecutors, and federal prosecutors overseas.
The way they (no doubt activists, teachers, elected officials) got local high school students to come out and march on the University of VA campus after the publication of the Rolling Stone story, tells me this framework is (if it isn’t already to some degree) heading to high schools, junior high schools, elementary schools, etc.
Exactly right. Rape is a very serious crime. Colleges are not equipped to deal with it and are not the right venue for it. Rape victims should call in the police and the DA. This is what we pay taxes for. If there are rapists on campus they should go to prison. But its not for a college to decide. It is for the courts.
Exactly.
And you know what? There should at least be the option of more supervised freshman dorms, such that 18- and 19-year-olds can have structure to mitigate the risks for both men and women.
Hand over our troops to foreign legal systems?
If the alleged offense takes place off base they already have jurisdiction. If on base are you nuts?