Day: June 16, 2014

‘Presumed Guilty: Due Process Lessons of the Duke Lacrosse Case’

Our friends at FIRE has just released a video explaining why the 2006 Duke lacrosse case is still relevant. It features frequent Minding the Campus contributor KC Johnson, who wrote the definitive history of the case. Check it out here:

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Anti-Liberalism at Vassar: Will the Professors Please Stand Up?

Last month, the Vassar chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine posted a Nazi propaganda poster on its Tumblr site. The poster depicted, among other things, a big nosed man carrying a moneybag. The SJP had previously posted material from an anti-Semitic magazine, using the classic “fifth columnist” trope to describe Israel’s American defenders. At that time, […]

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Not So Credible Analysts of Campus Rape

One striking element of the debate over sexual assault on campus is the almost complete lack of credibility for those whose predictions or observations have failed to stand the test of time. Two examples: The first came in a piece from anthropologist Barbara King, a blogger for NPR. King delivered a pretty standard “rape culture” posting, […]

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Who’s Suing Their Colleges for Improperly Adjudicating Sexual Assault?

Posted by A Voice For Male Students 1. John Doe at Occidental College 2. Andre L. Henry at Delaware State University 3. Benjamin King at Depauw University 4. Edwin Bleiler at College of the Holy Cross 5. John Doe at Williams College 6. Drew Sterrett at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 7. Kevin Parisi at Drew University […]

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