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SAVE Statement on the Proposed Title IX Regulation

SAVE STATEMENT ON THE PROPOSED TITLE IX REGULATION November 16, 2018 The purpose of campus disciplinary committees is to impartially investigate a complaint of sexual misconduct, determine the truthfulness of the allegation, and impose appropriate sanctions when indicated. The procedures that are followed to assure an accurate determination and just outcome are referred

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Betsy DeVos releases sexual assault rules she hails as balancing rights of victims, accused

Betsy DeVos releases sexual assault rules she hails as balancing rights of victims, accused By Laura Meckler November 16 at 5:30 PM Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Friday released her long-awaited rewrite of rules governing campus sexual harassment and assault allegations, narrowing the cases schools must investigate and giving the accused more rights. The proposal

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Lawsuit: Purdue accused of ‘chilling’ retaliation on women who reported sexual assaults

Lawsuit: Purdue accused of ‘chilling’ retaliation on women who reported sexual assaults Dave Bangert, Lafayette Journal & CourierPublished 4:39 p.m. ET Nov. 14, 2018 | Updated 10:09 p.m. ET Nov. 15, 2018 In a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday, two former students claim they were kicked out of school after Purdue couldn’t find enough evidence in their

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Investigation: Charges for Iowa State Title IX litigation top $416,000

Investigation: Charges for Iowa State Title IX litigation top $416,000 By K. Rambo, k.rambo@iowastatedaily.com, @k_rambo_ Nov 11, 2018 Updated 21 hrs ago Editor’s Note: This is part three of an investigation to track the amount of money charged in recent Title IX cases against Iowa State. Part one was published Feb. 16, 2016, part two was published May 29, 2018. More

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SAVE PR – Surging Public Support for Due Process and the Presumption of Innocence

Surging Public Support for Due Process and the Presumption of Innocence WASHINGTON / November 12, 2018 – Several non-partisan, national surveys point to widespread public concern about the erosion of the presumption of innocence and due process in our country, the problem of false allegations, and a pressing need to reinvigorate these bedrock principles of fairness

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New Education Department Rules to Change Procedures for Campus Sexual-Assault Cases

New Education Department Rules to Change Procedures for Campus Sexual-Assault Cases By Michelle Hackman Oct. 31, 2018 6:37 p.m. ET WASHINGTON—New federal rules governing campus sexual-assault cases will require that accused students be allowed to cross-examine their accusers, according to people familiar with a draft of the rules. The requirement marks a shift from an

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OTL: College athletes three times more likely to be named in Title IX sexual misconduct complaints

OTL: College athletes three times more likely to be named in Title IX sexual misconduct complaints http://www.espn.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/25149259/college-athletes-three-s-more-likely-named-title-ix-sexual-misconduct-complaints Paula LavigneESPN Staff Writer COLLEGE ATHLETES IN recent years were about three times more likely than other students to be accused of sexual misconduct or domestic violence in complaints made at Power 5 conference schools, according to an

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Cornell pays accused student $125,000 to settle double-jeopardy suicide lawsuit

Cornell pays accused student $125,000 to settle double-jeopardy suicide lawsuit GREG PIPER – ASSOCIATE EDITOR •OCTOBER 2, 2018 It will pay attorney’s fees as well, once they are assessed Title IX proceedings sometimes traumatize accused students so much they attempt suicide. This happened to a male student at Cornell University, who formally accused his sex partner

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Just Days After Cornerstone Caroline Incident, EVAWI Doubles Down on ‘Victims’

SAVE October 23, 2018 A few days ago, a woman known as “Cornerstore Caroline” called the cops on a 9-year-old boy for allegedly sexually assaulting her. But the surveillance video revealed the boy’s backpack accidentally and momentarily grazed her buttocks — there was no assault: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7goQ7r_xRQ The video went viral, and incident has provoked a national

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Due process reflects human nature and it is our best chance for fairness

Due process reflects human nature and it is our best chance for fairness BY WENDY MCELROY, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 09/30/18 07:00 PM EDT According to a recent Reason headline, proposed changes to the Department of Education’s (DOE) Title IX require “due process protections…for individuals accused” of sexual misconduct on campus. A CNN article on Kavanaugh-accuser Christine Blasey Ford states