Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the California Globe on August 4, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. In 1871, over five years after the establishment of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Ohio Republican Congressman Samuel Shellabarger introduced the KKK Act as “An Act to […]
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Too often on campus, the best chance for a wrongfully accused student to achieve justice involves a lawsuit after the campus tribunal has done its worst. A system that uses the lowest standard of proof, allows accusers to appeal not-guilty findings, lacks mechanisms for mandatory discovery of exculpatory evidence, denies meaningful (or any) representation by […]
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