DeVos proposes overhaul to campus sexual misconduct rules

[demmiblue]

Source: AP

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is proposing a major overhaul to the way colleges handle complaints of sexual misconduct.

The Education Department released a plan Friday that would require schools to investigate sexual assault and harassment only if the alleged misconduct was reported to certain campus officials and only if it occurred on campus or other areas overseen by the school.

The plan would narrow the definition of sexual harassment and allow students accused of misconduct to cross-examine accusers in campus hearings.

DeVos’ proposal would replace Obama-era guidelines she scrapped last year, saying they were unfair to students accused of sexual misconduct.

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. If Devos' new policies take effect, I could see a new sub-industry of

law firms dealing with campus crime. Students wouldn't go to the college. They'd go to attorneys, to prosecutors, etc.

And the colleges/universities would get the bad press for cultivating unsafe campuses, exactly the opposite of what they're trying to avoid.

[Texin]

9. Not just "bad press" but NCAA suspension from sports programs if the attacker plays sports there.

I believe DeVos is working overtime to continue the GOP plan to disenfranchise women from academic achievement -- or hell, even attendance of schools and universities altogether. It should be abundantly clear that this so-called party wants to make women subservient to and dependent on males.

[radicalliberal]

11. Many sports fans have no sympathy for rape victims --

-- when their victimizers happen to be school athletes in excessively popular sports such as football.

[Guilded Lilly]

2. This woman continues to be the dumbest box of hair in the hoarder closet. N/T

[olegramps]

4. This is what can only be expected from the appointment of fascist thugs.

[IronLionZion]

3. What is it with these Republican women?

Some of them really hate their fellow women. And some of the older ones really hate young women.

I think it was Phyllis Schlafly who said something like if you don't want to get raped in college, don't go to college. Or if you can't afford birth control, hold an aspirin between your knees.

[Botany]

5. This 100% pure gas lighting

Designed to piss us off and grab the news cycle for 24 hours. And it
a bonus to "them" that this act is mean and it will hurt people.

[demmiblue]

6. Maxine Waters: Betsy DeVos, you won't get away with what you are doing. We are organizing to put...

Betsy DeVos, you won’t get away with what you are doing. We are organizing to put an end to your destruction of civil rights protections for students.

Link to tweet

More background/info regarding DeVos' plan here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/betsy-devos-set-to-bolster-rights-of-accused-in-rewrite-of-sexual-assault-rules/2018/11/14/828ebd9c-e7d1-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html

[bronxiteforever]

8. [phone]

[Still In Wisconsin]

7. As always with the Trump administration, remember that THE CRUELTY IS THE POINT!

Cruelty from these assholes isn't a byproduct, it's what they're selling.

[kstewart33]

10. This will trigger a firestorm.

Especially with the definition of sexual harassment - sexual conduct "so severe, pervasive and objectively offensive that it effectively denies a person equal access to the school's education program or activity."

Interesting phrase: "objectively offensive." Who decides what meets that vague standard?