doesn’t matter- once the accusation is out there the accused can be tarnished forever...does the Duke lacrosse case bring back any memories?? there was a story posted on Freep last week; a female Columbia student accused another student of rape...the accused was exonerated after an investigation....didn’t matter to the accuser as she’s protesting by carrying a mattress (rather ironic) around with her from class to class until she gets revenge, i mean justice...
I agree. However, it also works the other way. The girl in the Steubenville rape case will forever be a slut. It doesn’t matter that she was raped and her rapists were convicted. To the locals she will always be a slut.
I’m not trying to say that there is a solution to the issue, just that there are two sides to every issue. I hope the Duke lacrosse boys own who slandered and libeled them. I also hope that true victims who are blamed find peace as well.
Proof and Campus Rape: Standards for Campus Disciplinary Proceedings
http://www.thefire.org/proof-and-campus-rape-standards-for-campus-disciplinary-proceedings/
““Preponderance of the evidence” means that if a school thinks there is as little as a 51 per chance that the accused is guilty, the accused must still be disciplined.”
And the student can be barred from campus, lose scholarships, denied a graduation, have a horrible record - even in cases where the police didn’t pursue rape charges but the school punished him.
Unfortunately, the Justice Department is altering the already low standards for students charged with rape on campus to an even lower standard.
“The mere existence of harassment by students isn’t enough for liability under Title IX. More is required. The school’sown actions in response to the harassment must be culpable. As the Education Department admitted in its 1997 “Sexual Harassment Guidance,” “Title IX does not make a school responsible for the actions of harassing students, but rather for its own discrimination in failing to remedy it once the school has notice.” (62 FR 12034 (1997)). So to violate Title IX, an institution’s own actions must be proven culpable under a “preponderance” standard — not the mere occurrence of harassment.”