The Failures of Title Ⅸ Universities and colleges across the nation have declared to bring each and every bright-minded individual access to education, experience, and seemingly safe environments. From humid and pedagogic research institutions in the South to liberal and prestigious universities of the North, the federal mandate of fairness has stretched across nearly every private and public college in America, ironically bringing forth a tsunami of injustice. The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has enforced gender equality in universities for years under Title Ⅸ, the federal law that requires schools to ensure that all students remain unaffected by any sexual discrimination on campus. However, the OCR has utilized this
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The notion that the accused is “innocent until proven guilty” does not prevail in the botched courts of the dozens of universities across the nation faced constantly with cases of sexual violence. More than two dozen Harvard Law School professors recently collaborated on a statement protesting the university's new Title Ⅸ based rules for handling sexual assault claims, writing that “Harvard has adopted procedures for deciding cases of alleged sexual misconduct which lack the most basic elements of fairness and due process,”. The professors note that such rules include the employment of a Title Ⅸ officer who will be tasked with investigation, prosecution, fact-finding, and appellate review, and they also mention that under the new system, there will be no hearing for the accused, and thus no opportunity to question witnesses and mount a defense. Harvard University, the statement reads, is “jettisoning balance and fairness in the rush to appease certain federal administrative officials” (Yoffe). The cause and extent of the issue of sexual assault on campus are hotly debated, but there is no dispute that the broken way colleges handle these cases is a result of the federal government’s forced interpretation of the Title Ⅸ. In the process of the rather …show more content…
In the kangaroo courts of Title Ⅸ schools, the bias against male accused is substantial, as more than 80% of lawsuits against schools for misconduct and mishandling of cases is lead by young men who have had their lives and reputations ruined by falsified events and inadequate judges. In fact, the higher education insurance group, United Educators, performed a study of the 262 insurance claims it paid to students between 2006 and 2010 due to improper handling of campus sexual assault and concluded that the total cost was $36 million. The vast majority of these payouts, 72%, went to the accused - young men who protested their treatment by universities. The legal filings in the cases brought by young men accused of sexual violence often begin like a script for a college sex farce but end with the protagonist finding himself in a Soviet-style show trial, or in some cases, they receive no trial at all (Yoffe). During a lawsuit brought upon Columbia University for anti-male bias in a sexual assault case, the federal appeals court stated that “A covered university that adopts, even temporarily, a policy of bias favoring one sex over the other in a disciplinary dispute, doing so in order to avoid liability or bad
The notion that the accused is “innocent until proven guilty” does not prevail in the botched courts of the dozens of universities across the nation faced constantly with cases of sexual violence. More than two dozen Harvard Law School professors recently collaborated on a statement protesting the university's new Title Ⅸ based rules for handling sexual assault claims, writing that “Harvard has adopted procedures for deciding cases of alleged sexual misconduct which lack the most basic elements of fairness and due process,”. The professors note that such rules include the employment of a Title Ⅸ officer who will be tasked with investigation, prosecution, fact-finding, and appellate review, and they also mention that under the new system, there will be no hearing for the accused, and thus no opportunity to question witnesses and mount a defense. Harvard University, the statement reads, is “jettisoning balance and fairness in the rush to appease certain federal administrative officials” (Yoffe). The cause and extent of the issue of sexual assault on campus are hotly debated, but there is no dispute that the broken way colleges handle these cases is a result of the federal government’s forced interpretation of the Title Ⅸ. In the process of the rather …show more content…
In the kangaroo courts of Title Ⅸ schools, the bias against male accused is substantial, as more than 80% of lawsuits against schools for misconduct and mishandling of cases is lead by young men who have had their lives and reputations ruined by falsified events and inadequate judges. In fact, the higher education insurance group, United Educators, performed a study of the 262 insurance claims it paid to students between 2006 and 2010 due to improper handling of campus sexual assault and concluded that the total cost was $36 million. The vast majority of these payouts, 72%, went to the accused - young men who protested their treatment by universities. The legal filings in the cases brought by young men accused of sexual violence often begin like a script for a college sex farce but end with the protagonist finding himself in a Soviet-style show trial, or in some cases, they receive no trial at all (Yoffe). During a lawsuit brought upon Columbia University for anti-male bias in a sexual assault case, the federal appeals court stated that “A covered university that adopts, even temporarily, a policy of bias favoring one sex over the other in a disciplinary dispute, doing so in order to avoid liability or bad