Last Saturday, Yale Law professor Jeb Rubenfeld had an important op-ed in the Times discussing the issue of how colleges respond to campus sexual assault. His argument? “Forced by the federal government, colleges have now gotten into the business of conducting rape trials, but they are not competent to handle this job. They are simultaneously failing […]
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There have been two major developments in the past week in the fight against racial and ethnic preferences in university admissions. First, last week, in Fisher v. University of Texas, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied further review of a panel decision that had rejected the challenge to that school’s use […]
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The“Truthy” project at Indiana University should have set off alarm bells right at the start. Described as a research project to study how memes spread on social media, it was created in 2010 by university computer science professor Filippo Menczer, and began tracking “suspicious memes,” and “false or misleading ideas” on Twitter. So far it […]
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The New York Times has followed the issue of campus rape for a number of years without mentioning the shaky procedures and lack of due process in college hearings on sexual assault. The first acknowledgement we have seen in the Times that these hearings are basically unfair came in a Sunday Review opinion piece November […]
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