CAMPUS SEX PANIC UPDATE: Feminist lawyer denounces handling of campus sexual assault cases. “Shatz describes what some of us already know: That school disciplinary panels handling sexual assault cases are throwing out due process in order to appease the Obama administration, which has demanded that college administrators crack down on the offense. . . . ‘As feminists, we should demand better than knee-jerk reactions from the government intended to appease anti-sexual assault activists without truly addressing their demands, and poorly designed university policies intended merely to protect the school’s federal funding at the expense of our core democratic values of fairness, due process, and the presumption of innocence.'”
In doing this — let me be clear, as they say — schools and their administrators are betraying their duty to their students in the service of lucre. It’s cowardly, self-serving, and a repudiation of what higher education is supposed to stand for. Naturally, they are rushing to submit with barely a word of protest.