The L.A. Times reports:
For the last four years, a little-known civil rights office in the U.S. Department of Education has forced far-reaching changes in how the nation’s colleges and universities police, prosecute and punish sexual assaults on campus.You'll notice Comrade Lhamon mentions the highly discredited one in five figure. We encourage anyone falsely accused of rape , in front of a campus star chamber, to get legal counsel before hand. Is your college becoming a racketeering enterprise to deny you your basic Fourth Amendment rights? You might read the assholes a Miranda warning reminding them that anything they say in a campus forum against you will be held against them and they could be liable for breach of contract , defamation of character and more. You might also remind them yelling rape without a conviction in court can put them in legal jeopardy.
With a strong mandate from President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, the office's lawyers have redefined campus sexual assault as a federal civil rights issue, changed the standard by which allegations must be judged and publicized the names of a growing number of schools under investigation for allegedly failing to respond properly to complaints of sexual misconduct.
"This is the first administration to call sexual violence a civil rights issue," said Catherine E. Lhamon, a former ACLU lawyer in Los Angeles who, as assistant secretary of Education, heads the Office for Civil Rights and has brought the style of an aggressive litigator to the once-staid education post.
"We don’t treat rape and sexual assault as seriously as we should," she said, citing surveys that found one-in-five women say they were victims of sexual assault or unwanted sexual contact in college. There is "a need to push the country forward."
