Duke, Grossly Unfair Again, Is Back in Court

Few universities are less well-suited to adjudicate sexual assault cases than Duke. The university’s president and judicial affairs staff remains the same as 2006-2007, when their egregious mishandling of events in the lacrosse case resulted in an approximately $6.7 million legal settlement with each of the three falsely accused players. The hostility to due process in the campus environment was best seen in the activities of the Group of 88, who proudly affirmed that something “happened” to false accuser Crystal Mangum based solely on the word of Mangum and rogue prosecutor Mike Nifong.

Nor has Duke’s internal campus process inspired any more confidence. Shortly after the lacrosse case, Duke revised its campus disciplinary rules to hold that a rape could occur even after seemingly consensual intercourse, because of unintentional, perceived power differentials between the parties...Amidst strong criticism from FIRE and others, the university quietly dropped the new definition after a year, but didn’t reconsider the assumptions that could have led the school to have adopted such a rule in the first place. And to start the 2013-4 academic year, under pressure from “activists,” Duke changed its policy again, to have a presumption of expulsion when the school (under very due process-unfriendly procedures) deems a student culpable of sexual misconduct.

That policy change has now led to Duke facing a new lawsuit, filed by a male student expelled on what seems like questionable grounds. (The student was expelled three days before taking his final exams in his final semester.) Indeed, this seems to be precisely the sort of case to which due process skeptic Brett Sokolow had referred when he noted that colleges are increasingly branding students rapists on the basis of incomplete or non-existent evidence.

Duke University Porn star Belle Knox to host racy reality show

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/05/30/porn-star-belle-knox-to-host-racy-reality-show/

Porn star Belle Knox has branched out. The Duke University student who was outed as a porn star will be hosting a new porn reality show called ‘The Sex Factor.’ It will feature eight men and eight women who will be competing for a $1 million prize.

According to Hollywood Life Knox will be joined on the judging panel by Lexi Belle, 2014 Penthouse Pet of the Year, Tori Black, 2011 AVN Performer of the Year, Remy LaCroix, 2014 AVN Best Actress and Keiran Lee, whose insured certain body parts for $1 million.

Belle Knox shot to fame in Feb. 2014 when she was outed by one of her porn-watching classmates. She initially tried to stay under the radar, writing under a pseudonym, but it was no use — her real name was revealed as Miriam Weeks.

She has been outspoken about her position as a feminist despite the rough sex films that she stars in —she once wrote at XO Jane that “To be a feminist is not to say that everything ‘submissive’ should be rejected … Feminism means I can take ownership of what I enjoy sexually. …

“Whatever choice a woman is making and she is the one deciding to do — reclaiming the agency behind the decision to do, even if it is a degrading sexual act — is absolutely feminism.”

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