Due process on campus needs a congressional champion

Washingtonexaminer ^ | APRIL 16, 2015 | BY ASHE SCHOW

[yuffy]

It's a sad day in America when due process rights granted in the Constitution need protection, but here we are.

On college campuses across the country, students — particularly male students — are learning the hard way that they have little if any due process rights should they ever be accused of sexual assault. Indeed, an accusation is all that's needed to destroy or severely alter their future.

The reason for this comes from the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, which has reinterpreted Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to view sexual assault as a form of gender discrimination instead of a crime. It therefore must be treated as a disciplinary matter, more closely aligned with plagiarism than the felony crime it actually is.

And since Title IX and OCR's subsequent, infamous "Dear Colleague" letter recommend inadequate due process rights for those accused, following those guidelines has been shown in at least one instance to be an acceptable excuse for subverting the Constitution. For instance, although Title IX theoretically requires a fair hearing for the accused, it also requires a Title IX officer to oversee the investigation of sexual assault complaints and be a victim's advocate, thereby placing the power of the office behind the accuser and against the accused.

[nathanbedford]

I recently watched a rerun of Blue Bloods and the episode is instructive for how the left controls the media and in turn dominates our politics.

In this episode, the commissioners daughter, and assistant District Attorney, is appalled that fictional New York City Hudson University has dismissed the allegations by a coed that she was raped. She becomes further incensed when she comes to believe that the university acted to cover up the crime. The entire episode is portrayed as a situation in which the coed was the victim who could not get even the most basic hearing or due process out of an arbitrary University system dominated by a very unlikable female Dean.

In the end justice was served by the public humiliation of the Dean and her arrest on charges that she withheld evidence. Nothing could be further from the current state of affairs, indeed, the episode is precisely the opposite of what is the norm on our college campuses. Yet, this episode of Blue Bloods, by Hollywood standards a reasonably conservative show, conditions the public to the opposite of the truth.

When a Republican runs for the Senate and utters the phrase, "legitimate rape" the public has been well instructed by the media in how to react and in the event the public has not paid attention to it's lessons, the media dutifully re-instructs them. When shows like conservative Blue Bloods contributes to manipulating the public mind against reality, we can begin to understand why conservatives lose election after election on the national level.

[Does so]

Project Veritas has this same situation with Miami's Barry University presently.