Universities Under Investigation Re: Handling Sexual Assault

[honorgal]

Originally Posted by SydneyK

Ok. So I just went back and read all 16 pages. I should've done that before posting earlier. (I even read the entire Duke thread Kevin posted, just for fun.)

I don't think honorgal is a troll.

I don't think it's either fair or accurate to say that either the victim is lying or that the accused is lying. I agree with Low D Flat - it's possible that both parties remember the same event differently.

Absolutely agree.

Having a husband who has worked in college administration does not qualify someone as having a "front row" seat to the inner workings of administration.

I never made this claim. I was responding specifically to this from another poster:

I'm just trying to understand where you're coming from. When someone gets on a soapbox the way you have, they tend to provide some background for perspective

It may be a non-problem in your eyes, but to a college/university administration, it's helpful and comforting to have a solution/response to situations regarding student-safety concerns.

I find it hard to reconcile the above statement with your earlier one:

I don't think our colleges/universities should have to shoulder the responsibility of determining someone's innocence or guilt in regards to rape cases. Nor do I think it's appropriate to oust a student based on an accusation of rape.

Colleges are having to shoulder the responsibility, and they are ousting students based on nothing more than accusations.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by honorgal

I find it hard to reconcile the above statement with your earlier one:

One statement had to do with schools shouldering the responsibility for student safety, the other with schools shouldering the responsibility for determining guilt.

[squirrely girl]

Originally Posted by honorgal

Colleges are having to shoulder the responsibility, and they are ousting students based on nothing more than accusations.

Yeah... that's still not a real thing.

[honorgal]

Originally Posted by squirrely girl

Yeah... that's still not a real thing.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/1...campus-rapists

[squirrely girl]

Originally Posted by honorgal

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/1...campus-rapists

The plural of anecdote is not data.

[exlurker]

Connecticut Data - College by College - Shows Variation in Increase / Decrease of Reports

The schools with larger increases, according to the article [below] are the U of Connecticut, Wesleyan, and Trinity.

Schools with declines include Connecticut College, Yale, and Eastern Connecticut State U.

The article contains some information on settlements -- for example, "UConn agreed to a $1.28 million settlement" of a case "in July."

http://www.courant.com/education/hc-...ry.html#page=2