I feel like if someone is criminally sexual, it shouldn't be up to the school to try them at all. Report it to the police.

And if someone's not a criminal, but they are enough of an asshole that you don't want them in your private institution, then refund their semester and send them off.

But for criminal charges... file the police report. Have the trial, maybe put the accused on leave while they are on trial. Then await the results.

If colleges want to have a lower bar for kicking people out then they should just make clear what the criteria are.

Why is there no concern about making college campuses less safe for men via kangaroo courts that offer Soviet show trial-style justice, with a predetermined verdict of guilty?

Because show trials serve a purpose and there are people who want that purpose served - with both nefarious and genuine motives.

There are those who wish to increase the power of their party and philosophy - identity politics - through intimidation.

Then, there are those who genuinely want to reduce what they see as too much sexual harassment on college campuses - i.e., Animal House drunken fraternity behavior - and believe that an intimidating hyper-strict enforcement regimen is the way to reduce the undesired behavior.

Criminal sexual assault should still be left in the hands of the police. However, we do know that the police and district attorneys can only prosecute crimes for which they have proof that meets a certain standard (reasonable doubt), and sexual assault is one of the hardest crimes to prove, often involving he said / she said claims.

Frustrated by the criminal courts' burden of proof, people often look outside the criminal justice system for relief. Witness OJ Simpson being successfully sued for committing a crime of which he was acquitted in a court of law.

Dirty Harry was viewed by some critics as a conservative fantasy, born of frustration with a justice system that often fails to convict criminals. The "Dear Colleague" letter was a liberal fantasy born of frustration with a justice system that often fails to convict criminals.

However, the character of Harry Callahan was a fantasy that affected no one's real life. The "Dear Colleague" letter set loose a travesty of justice that destroyed real people's lives.

It's better that 99 innocents suffer than to let one guilty man go free -- some feminist somewhere

Wasn't it Catherine MacKinnon who thought that a false accusation of rape was acceptable and no big deal and perhaps even a net positive? or do I have her mixed up with another?

Apparently, the head of the US Commission on Civil Rights is against elementary due process.

https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/1257996899082219520

It's better that 99 innocents suffer than to let one guilty man go free -- some feminist somewhere ~ I R A Darth Aggie at May 6, 2020 7:34 AM

"...for the law holds that it is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." ~ William Blackstone (Commentaries on the laws of England, 1765)

That is known as Blackstone's Ratio. The sentiment stemmed from a long tradition in Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence that the courts should err on the side of protecting the innocent.

In his 1770 defense of the British soldiers accused in the Boston Massacre, John Adams expounded on that, "It is of more importance to the community that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished; for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world, that all of them cannot be punished....when innocence itself, is brought to the bar and condemned, especially to die, the subject will exclaim, 'it is immaterial to me whether I behave well or ill, for virtue itself is no security.' And if such a sentiment as this were to take hold in the mind of the subject that would be the end of all security whatsoever."

Ben Franklin echoed Blackstone's sentiments in a letter to Benjamin Vaughn in 1785 writing, "it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer."

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I don't know about the McKinnon question, but I have found most of her utterances to be ugly and delusional.

IRA,

It was Catherine Comins.

There is a free-floating anger in many feminists based on the "that's not fair" argument, that life isn't fair and it is men's fault. Never mind that men suffer 95% of workplace fatalities (and most female fatalities at work are drivers) or work longer hours or die young or any of that. It is still men's fault and since we are guilty of what those in our race/class/sex have done (class guilt, blood-libel) then punishing an innocent student merely helps balance the scales. They never stop to think what if the shoe was on the other foot.

It was Catherine Comins. ~ Jay R at May 6, 2020 10:02 AM

Wow. I looked up Comins after your comment, Jay. She's a piece of work.

"The male chromosome is an incomplete female chromosome. In other words the male is a walking abortion; aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples." ~ Catherine Comins

She's blinded by hate and anger. And yet Vassar made (and kept) her the Assistant Dean of Student Life?

Biden is on the side of accusers? Something doesn’t compute in that mans brain.