Columbia University sued by male student in ‘Carry that Weight’ rape case

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279. Then you'll have to change Title IX. Universities do this because they are legally required to

And, to make things more frustrating, they're legally required to because they can use a lower standard of evidence there than criminal courts can, which makes it easier to actually kick out an attacker.

My own anecdotal experience is that if you have one student who has accused another of rape, one of the two will have left school within a year. The disciplinary process is a way to try to put some of that burden on the accused. It's got a lot of problems but it seems like the best idea anybody has come up with so far, and it's just about the only way a lot of sexual assault victims to get any sort of redress. There are a non-zero number of people who will use it maliciously, and this being college, there will always be a few people who have kind of lost tether with reality (honestly I think that is more common than an outright malicious false accusation), but that doesn't bother me all that much. People leave college for all kinds of reasons, and the needs of the student community as a whole should come first.