Posted on 03/20/2015 12:47:49 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Ithaca, N.Y. — A new lawsuit filed Thursday against Cornell claims the university wrongly expelled a male student for what was “clearly consensual” sex.
The former student, a senior at Cornell, was found guilty of sexual misconduct by the university’s judicial system after an encounter with a female student in December 2013, according to the lawsuit. There is no indication criminal charges were ever pursued.
The male student is referred to throughout the lawsuit under the pseudonym “John Doe.” He was expelled in May 2014, shortly before his graduation, and has had his diploma withheld and his reputation “tarnished” as a result, according to the lawsuit.
In a 53-page complaint, the student’s attorneys launch a wide-ranging critique of both Cornell’s handling of the specific case and the overall framework of the university’s judicial system.
The lawsuit also assails the university’s decision in 2013 to lower the burden of proof for sexual assault cases from a “clear and convincing” standard of evidence to the much-lower “preponderance” standard of evidence.
But Cornell failed to administer even this lower standard of evidence fairly, the lawsuit contends.
“Cornell has created an environment where an accused male student is fundamentally denied due process by being prosecuted through the conduct process under a presumption of guilt,” the lawsuit states.
“By allowing the (Judicial Office) to take on the role of ‘judge, jury and executioner,” there were no safeguards or checks and balances in place along the way to ensure that the JA’s ultimate conclusion was objective and sound.”
A Cornell spokesperson said in a statement that the university does not comment on ongoing litigation.
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City of evil bump
Conservative love is illegal?..
Colleges should not have their own courts, cops or laws.
Male student. Female student.
Yes, I see the problem right there.
Sexual consent forms used to be a joke; now more and more they’re looking like a necessity.
No, really: http://www.loveologyuniversity.com/Images/DrAvaResourceFile/Resource_168_Sexual_Consent_Form.pdf
There are also apps that serve a similar purpose.
Academic sharia but with a different set of rules.
I’d sue to own the college, and then Palmer Raid the joint.
The result of having feminazis in control.
Let’s see, eyewitnesses said she wasn’t drunk, he wasn’t a predator, and that she took her bra off in front of everybody as a prelude to initiating contact with the John Doe.
Annnd he was expelled anyway, throwing his future and reputation into the crapper.
I hope this guy is able to nail Cornell to the wall. This is just garbage.
They should be both expelled. Consensual sex is another Orwellian oxymoron. Do I say when I go eat on a date that I consent for her to eat and me to eat? It is disgusting if one thinks about it.
Feminazi, prudity for men, not for women. it is like a church punishing people for having sex, well, only guys, that is, because the cop-judge power that be loves to punish the guy and control the progenitor of life, woman,that is.
“Colleges should not have their own courts, cops or laws.”
Although it clearly seems that in this case the male student was treated horribly and unfairly, and has had his life substantially altered, from my own very personal experience universities tend to bury this stuff, and pretty much anything when it comes to protecting income-generating faculty. My experience is that they would tenure and protect Charles Manson if he brought in money. They most definitely don’t have a track record of protecting women, or men, from predators - again particularly when the predators generate income for them.
In this case, expelling a student doesn’t cost them anything, at least unless they lose a lawsuit - and most universities already have bevies of lawyers on their payroll.
If he was gay, well, he would have been the victim... Or something like that. In fact he would have never been removed, or he would have a huge bisexual lawsuit case.
Too weird for words.
“Colleges should not have their own courts, cops or laws.”
Appears that straight males will now require an attorney and notary to come along on his date, err hookup.
What’s getting really confusing (at least for us normal people) is that now “men who identify as female” are going to traditional women’s colleges. All this “gender-bending” is getting real interesting, especially when the trannies come up against the feminazis, etc. They’ll have to start eating their own, and they can’t sweep it all under the rug forever. Especially considering what big loud mouths the feminazis and the homos have, and how they love to whine loudly and often about what victims they are.
The same thing that happens when Starbucks baristas start offering advice on race relations.
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