[QUOTE=The Hill]Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is expected to make an announcement on the department’s enforcement of federal sex discrimination laws at George Mason University on Thursday.
The Education Department announced Wednesday that DeVos will give a “major policy address on Title IX enforcement” at the university’s Arlington, Va., campus beginning at 12:15 p.m.
Citing event insiders, BuzzFeed reported earlier this week that DeVos is expected to announce what the Education Department will do regarding Obama-era directives on campus rape.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/349501-devos-to-make-title-ix-enforcement-announcement[/url]
Based on what I've been hearing, Devos is going to rescind Obama-era Title IX rules regarding sexual assault and rape on college campuses "to protect the accused".
I'm sure whatever she'll announce is good thing.
And I will spontaneously sprout wings and fly off.
Logic tells me to not judge the day before dinner but about every alarm in my head went off when I read the name "DeVos"
[QUOTE=zizzleplix;52658205]Based on what I've been hearing, Devos is going to rescind Obama-era Title IX rules regarding sexual assault and rape on college campuses "to protect the accused".[/QUOTE]
Brock Turners of the world will be happy, I'm sure.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;52658229]Brock Turners of the world will be happy, I'm sure.[/QUOTE]
Stop bringing up Brock Turner as an example. He already told everyone how he's [I]veeery sooorry[/I] ;(
Really though, I'm from Grand Rapids where the DeVos family is a big name. I used to think well of them, but Betsy quickly made a name for herself being selfish scum. I don't expect anything good from this.
[quote]The day before, Candice Jackson, who heads the department’s civil rights division, inflamed critics when she reportedly told The New York Times that accused students' rights are often ignored in Title IX cases across the country and that “both parties” involved in a sexual assault case were usually drunk or under the influence of drugs at the time. [/quote]
So, IOW Candice, because both parties are under the influence then neither of them can be raped or sexually assaulted.
I'm baffled, I genuinely didn't think I could hear a more asinine statement in my life. Really glad we have people like this heading our Department of Education. Under the guise of "protecting the rights of the accused" they're pushing away actual victims that much further from wanting to come forward and report those incidents.
TBH there is issues with Title IX ENFORCEMENT not the entire thing.
My school had a pretty big Title IX enforcement scandal where one dude raped a girl and no action was taken until she started a media campaign condemning the campus for protecting her rapist. The guy's dad hired a private investigator to basically dig up whatever dirt they could on the girl, trying to brand her as a slut in a really transparent attempt to protect the guy's image and dismiss the accusation.
The guy transferred to a school in another state and never experienced any legal or institutional punishments.
I would rather have sexual assault cases handled by already existing legal institutions, rather than academic institutions. But the problem there is that, in some cases, victims of sexual assault don't want to go on a vengeance spree and totally ruin the life of the person who assaulted them. A lot of victims just want to avoid the perpetrator - sometimes that means expelling them, sometimes that means restraining orders, and sometimes that just means they shuffle rooming/classes around so they don't have to come into contact with each other. My ex was assaulted by a (former) friend, and I was one of the few people who encouraged her to report it to police, not just the school. She did neither, instead, because my school has a terrible reputation for totally botching Title IX enforcement and she's worried it'd just end up inciting him to act violently. When enforced poorly, it disguises rape and actively encourages victims not to report assaults. My ex is [I]scared[/I] to be on campus with this guy - she's just more scared of the fallout that could happen if she reported it and they fucked up on enforcing Title IX rules.
Strong Title IX enforcement is incredibly important. DeVos isn't interested in cleaning up Title IX - she wants to dismantle it as much as possible. She will actively cause sexual assault and drastically increase people's fear to report sex crimes.
Nazis and rapists seem to be good friends of this administration, I wonder why.
while the obama regulations were not great, congress refused to do anything to actually deal with the issue. obama knew he was at the edge of his authority.
Didn't the announcement already happen at the time of OP's post? Or am I getting my events mixed or timezones confused?
[url]http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/349647-devos-to-change-obama-era-campus-sexual-assault-policy[/url]
[QUOTE=.Isak.;52658353]My school had a pretty big Title IX enforcement scandal where one dude raped a girl and no action was taken until she started a media campaign condemning the campus for protecting her rapist. The guy's dad hired a private investigator to basically dig up whatever dirt they could on the girl, trying to brand her as a slut in a really transparent attempt to protect the guy's image and dismiss the accusation.
The guy transferred to a school in another state and never experienced any legal or institutional punishments.
I would rather have sexual assault cases handled by already existing legal institutions, rather than academic institutions. But the problem there is that, in some cases, victims of sexual assault don't want to go on a vengeance spree and totally ruin the life of the person who assaulted them. A lot of victims just want to avoid the perpetrator - sometimes that means expelling them, sometimes that means restraining orders, and sometimes that just means they shuffle rooming/classes around so they don't have to come into contact with each other. My ex was assaulted by a (former) friend, and I was one of the few people who encouraged her to report it to police, not just the school. She did neither, instead, because my school has a terrible reputation for totally botching Title IX enforcement and she's worried it'd just end up inciting him to act violently. When enforced poorly, it disguises rape and actively encourages victims not to report assaults. My ex is [I]scared[/I] to be on campus with this guy - she's just more scared of the fallout that could happen if she reported it and they fucked up on enforcing Title IX rules.
Strong Title IX enforcement is incredibly important. DeVos isn't interested in cleaning up Title IX - she wants to dismantle it as much as possible. She will actively cause sexual assault and drastically increase people's fear to report sex crimes.[/QUOTE]
And yet I've heard other stories of Title IX enforcement that's led to people being expelled over false accusations by people they've never met or have had hardly any contact with, and it was only when they sued the school that the school was forced to issue an apology for expelling the students after "investigations" that started with the assumption that the accused was guilty and that they deliberately obstructed every attempt from the accused to prove they didn't rape anyone, including ignoring any alibis and refusing to allow the accused to have a lawyer or any witnesses present at the school's hearing. In this case, no criminal charges against the accused were ever levied either, which shows that there was no real evidence for a criminal rape charge, else the school would have had local LEOs charge the person as well as the school expel them. Some of the stories from [url=https://www.facecampusequality.org/our-stories.html]FACE,[/url] a group founded by mothers of boys falsely accused under Title IX and punished, sometimes without any semblance of due process, are tragic, and it's downright disgusting that these people had to go through those experiences over these false accusations.
I'm really confused as to why this happened at our Arlington campus. Basically the only thing there is the Law school and that "campus" consists of a whole 3 buildings. There is no student housing on the Arlington campus. It seems rather out of touch when we have many halls large enough in Fairfax, where all of the on-campus students live, to host this event.
[editline]7th September 2017[/editline]
Actually, I've just checked my email and apparently this was a private, ticketed event hosted by one of our student organizations.
Apparently Trump is looking to rollback the Obama administration's sexual assault guidelines. Don't know if this is new reports or a repeat of this. I ask because a recent petition has come up about standing by Title IX.
[video=youtube;zdrK2u6Wocg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdrK2u6Wocg[/video]
Man, one would think Obama bedded Trump's wife and daughter, what with Trump's hate boner for your former president. What if things are exactly as they seem, and every single rollback of Obama-era policy is just another part of this degenerate manchild's extended, petulant tantrum?
[QUOTE=archangel125;52666887]Man, one would think Obama bedded Trump's wife and daughter, what with Trump's hate boner for your former president.[/QUOTE]
If you imagine Trump's mentally still in kindergarten,everything he does makes a lot more sense.
[QUOTE=archangel125;52666887]Man, one would think Obama bedded Trump's wife and daughter, what with Trump's hate boner for your former president. What if things are exactly as they seem, and every single rollback of Obama-era policy is just another part of this degenerate manchild's extended, petulant tantrum?[/QUOTE]
Worse, Obama made fun of him and anyone else who is a birther.
[QUOTE=Lambeth;52666985]Worse, Obama made fun of him and anyone else who is a birther.[/QUOTE]
Worse. Obama is a black man. A successful one at that.
Trump doesn't exactly have a good history when it comes to not being a racist shitheap.
[QUOTE=hexpunK;52667067]Worse. Obama is a black man. A successful one at that.
Trump doesn't exactly have a good history when it comes to not being a racist shitheap.[/QUOTE]
A successful black man who is unequivocally a superior man to this orange lardass in every conceivable way, and since that truth is immediately apparent to everyone who compares the two, including Trump himself, he can't stand it. Given that Trump is incapable of condemning Nazis, and the fact the man was a birther, as well as all this admin's dogwhistling, one may easily conclude that Trump is a closet white supremacist. It's hardly a wonder he's trying so hard to erase Obama's legacy. The truth staring him in the face every single day must be difficult to bear.
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