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Amid Kavanaugh controversy, Trump administration plans to relax sexual assault rules on campus
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niyad
(112,434 posts)(may betsy receive everything she deserves, as the war on women continues apace)
Denying Justice to Campus Sexual Assault Survivors Saves Colleges Money
Yesterday, an Education Department analysis revealed that Secretary Betsy DeVoss newly proposed Title IX rules would significantly decrease the number of reports of and investigations into campus sexual misconduct, therefore saving colleges and school districts millions of dollars over the next decade. Under the new rules, investigations into college campus sexual misconduct would drop 39 percent, and investigations into sexual misconducts involving elementary and secondary education institutions would drop 50 percent.
According to a New York Times report, DeVos is proposing new rules that would narrow the definition of sexual harassment, reduce liability for schools and universities, and strengthen protections for students accused of assault, harassment, or rape. Schools would be required to approach all investigations under the presumption that the accused is innocent, placing the burden on the victim to prove they were assaulted. The Trump administration is sending us back to an ugly time when rape victims suffered in silence in our schools, and perpetrators were able to assault multiple women with impunity, said Gaylynn Burroughs, Director of Policy and Research at the Feminist Majority Foundation, in a previous statement. This new rules adopt the Supreme Courts definition of sexual harassment, which is defined as unwelcome conduct on the basis of sex that is so severe, pervasive and objectively offensive that it denies a person access to the schools program or activity.
According to the New York Times report, this new standard would find an institution in violation of the law only if its response to the sexual harassment is clearly unreasonable in light of known circumstances. Further, the proposed rule allows schools to decide whether to have an appeals process when addressing sexual assault and allows the use of mediation between the victims and perpetrators, essentially forcing victims to work it out with their rapists.
Last year, DeVos rescinded policies and guidance that protected survivors of sexual assault and worked to reduce the high rates of sexual misconduct on school campuses. Through this action, we are left wondering whether Secretary DeVos takes equal access to education for survivors seriously, testified Burroughs before Office of Postsecondary Education. By withdrawing the 2011 and 2014 guidance, this Administration has unfortunately sent the message that womens education is disposable. They can either put up with sexual violence or get out. One in five women and one in sixteen men will be sexually assaulted while in college, and 90 percent of survivors will never report the attack.
http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2018/09/11/denying-justice-to-campus-sexual-assault-survivors-saves-colleges-money/
marehare
(40 posts)So women or men who are assaulted on school campus should report to regular police and avoid campus police who do nothing. Trump is trying to take away every support an assaulted woman or man has on campus to save colleges money. So damn sick.
Vote Blue.
niyad
(112,434 posts)malthaussen
(17,066 posts)If they won't pursue assault cases, there will be fewer assault cases reported, and thus the place won't seem like the sewer it really is.
-- Mal
niyad
(112,434 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,362 posts)Another poster used the verb "Kavanaughs".
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Hard to sit on the SCOTUS when you are a verb....LOL. Great minds, you know.
IronLionZion
(45,256 posts)Cyrano
(15,023 posts)So are Republicans going to pass a law stating that what "he said" counts and what "she said" doesn't?
This horrible party of know-nothings must be defeated and their ideology must be buried forever.
And a sane opposition party must be created.
A country cannot exist under one party rule. But the Republican Party have proven themselves to be fascists. And a sane Republican Party must come into being.
niyad
(112,434 posts)lie, the men always tell the truth.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)dchill
(38,320 posts)Kavanaugh him where the sun don't shine!
NCjack
(10,279 posts)that the GOP has more Kavanaughs enrolled in colleges, on the path to the SC.
SpankMe
(2,937 posts)It's open season to harass and intimidate students with all sorts of sexual innuendo. As long as he student can still hobble to class the next day - we're all good, right!
The asshole party maintains its reputation.
Bengus81
(6,907 posts)No shock about anything Trump and his goons would propose at this point. This is a CABAL in the highest positions of our Government.
Rhiannon12866
(202,970 posts)He ran on it! How anyone could condone this - especially women - totally boggles the mind!
radicalliberal
(907 posts)Elated, perhaps?
niyad
(112,434 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,759 posts)And if I was groped, you best charge me with Assault and Battery right now, cause this girl will fight back with every ounce of fight I have left in me. Kick, bite, scratch and Elbows!
tclambert
(11,080 posts)Please, do carry on. The pink wave will drown them.
JohnnyRingo
(18,581 posts)...the Obama rule was skewed too heavily in favor the accuser.
I'm not sure how she plans to even those scales, but it's not good news for women who suffer at the hands of aggressive students and faculty members. DeVos is a piece of elite crap, but she's still a woman. Just like Ivanka's ass, this has Donald Trump's fingerprints all over it.
niyad
(112,434 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,581 posts)More like the three Os
Orate
Obfuscate
Obstruct.
niyad
(112,434 posts)IronLionZion
(45,256 posts)Blue Owl
(49,913 posts)VOTE 'EM OUT!!!