Posted on 11/27/2017 6:52:26 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
A male graduate is suing Cornell University in federal court, claiming that he was treated unfairly and unlawfully during a University Title IX investigation.
It is the third lawsuit of its nature in seven months, and the second time in the same period that a student or former student has claimed the University’s behavior gave him suicidal thoughts.
The newest complaint, filed on Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, accuses Cornell’s Title IX coordinator, Sarah Affel, of discriminating against a former student, “John Doe,” based on his sex, religion and ethnicity.
The man, who is Muslim and originally a citizen of a South Asian country, was accused of and found to have committed a sexual assault, according the complaint. The male student denies that he committed sexual assault.
Doe also alleges that the investigation was unfair and that Cornell and Affel failed to consider the results of a polygraph test he voluntarily took and reportedly passed.
Doe graduated from Cornell in May 2017, but only after serving his suspension, which remains marked on his transcript, he says.
After Doe denied the allegations both in a two-hour interrogation and in a “controlled phone call” — a recorded phone call between Roe and Doe in which Roe tried to get Doe to incriminate himself, the complaint says — and after Doe agreed to take a polygraph test, which he passed, CUPD closed its investigation and Doe was not charged with a crime.
The University’s Title IX Office, at that time still under the Office of the Judicial Administrator, then conducted its own investigation and found Doe responsible for sexually assaulting Roe.
Doe says Cornell and its investigator, Affel, conducted a biased, arbitrary, capricious, unfair and harmful investigation.
(Excerpt) Read more at cornellsun.com ...
City of Evil bump
On one hand, we have evil liberals.
On the other hand, we have a Muslim.
Can they BOTH lose? I would be happy with that.
The best ruling on this subject that Betsy Vos can make would be to REQUIRE (in order to be eligible for any federal funds) that colleges MUST turn over allegations of any sexual abuse nature to local police, prosecutor and courts, and quit “adjudicating” them on their own. Additionally, it must demand that any administrative action the college takes against any party in those cases MUST await the investigation and rulings by the local civil authorities, and NO action can be taken against any student NOT found guilty by the civil authorities.
As to any student seeking another student stay away from them, again it is to the civil authorities they can go, to seek a restraining order, if the court will give them one.
Campuses need to quit acting as a civil authority of their own.
you are 100% correct.
unfortunately the Obama administration FORCED colleges to act as civil authorities on their own.
Trump has fixed that.
yes, but don't Title IX laws basically require that Universities receiving federal funds (which is basically everyone) establish these adjudication boards or be prepared for Federal "audits" which basically are separate legal systems?
When he says that he has considered suicide, does he mean just him? Or taking others with him?
Not Roy Moore, apparently.
That is why it is vital for him to win. It will put a stake in the heart of the femnazi lynch mob.
Whether he did it or not if he truly thinks, according to his religion or beliefs, he did nothing wrong he will pass a polygraph regarding that particular incident.
“yes, but don’t Title IX laws basically require that Universities receiving federal funds (which is basically everyone) establish these adjudication boards or be prepared for Federal “audits” which basically are separate legal systems”
The Title IX law does not. The “regulators” require it, via their own, their designed, Title IX regulations, which the new head of the Dep of Ed can change, via regulation.
Then to top it off, she can ask the GOP majority to put it into law.
You nailed my exact reaction, Laz!
Agreed. These tribunals are a violation of double jeopardy, due process, even the right to know the full accusations against you and who is accusing you.
When the college can punish you after law enforcement says no or won’t get involved for lack of evidence, it is a violation of your civil rights.
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