No life is not perfect. Life is messy. But the oppressive biased over reach of colleges and universities into student sex lives is getting a wake up call finally just as unis did in the sixties. Perception and reality can be very close or miles and miles apart.
This came into my google feed today. It’s an interesting take for those interested in actual cases. It’s interesting because this article also brings up something I found ironic and just mentioned earlier…that students in the sixties, especially women, protested for more independence and less university oversight into their sex lives yet today’s young women are protesting for more university oversight into their sex lives.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/title-ix-is-too-easy-to-abuse/561650/
The Stanford rape case judge, Aaron Persky, was kicked to the curb yesterday. Voters sought to recall (get rid of) him because of his lenient six month sentence for the guy who was caught attempting to rape an unconscious near-naked woman behind a frat house. Persky was recalled, by almost 20%.
Typical of California, instead of changing the sentencing guidelines, which Persky was within, they kick the judge out…so the judge is gone, but I wonder if the voters actually got the sentencing guidelines changed. Hope so, otherwise it was another California lesson in futility because the next judge could give the exact same sentence and bed within his/her or rights to do so.
We Californians did change the sentencing guidelines. We changed them shortly after the sentence came down. Thanks for your concern on this issue.
Good the sentencing guidelines are the most important.
Talk about more Theater of the Absurd when discussing sexual violence.
In India, where 5 anti-trafficking activists were kidnapped and gang raped, this newsbite can be found at the end of the article :
Threats leveled against the VICTIM’S family. It’s sickening.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/22/asia/india-gang-rape/index.html
This kind of stuff can really destroy one’s faith in the goodness of humanity.
The son of the governor of Massachusetts has been accused of inappropriate touching of a passenger on a JetBlue flight.
Man, this is bizarre!
"…Duncan admitted that he wrote threatening letters last fall under the name “Control Freak” directing the employee to go with him to a training in Bemidji and stay overnight at a hotel together or risk harm to their families, the documents say. He directed the woman to refrain from telling her husband or reporting the matter to law enforcement or anyone else at Chisago County.
The woman ultimately refused to go and months later reported the ordeal to a supervisor, launching an investigation that the Chisago County attorney referred to an independent law firm…"
"…Duncan never asked her directly to sleep with him, Jacobson said, but he kept prodding her, asking how far she was willing to go to protect her family. In one text to Jacobson, he wrote, “My thoughts are we have to do it, but only if we are prepared to do what it takes…”
He has resigned “unexpectedly” claiming health issues.
^^^^^^What a stupid plot. Like it wasn’t obvious who would gain from them sharing a room together?
This guy is clearly not the sharpest tool in the shed, in addition to being morally bankrupt.
https://www.channel3000.com/news/crime/rape-crisis-center-cook-s-former-teacher-are-some-of-many-disappointed-in-his-short-sentence/757270129 I share the dismay of victims and many community members and legal system observers about the short sentence in this case.
@rosered55, I was about to type “unbelievable,” but then I realized that I do believe it.
Two female reporters harassed, one actually groped, while reporting at World Cup; two different reactions.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/25/football/world-cup-reporter-kiss-spt-intl/index.html
When there is a position where a molester can molest vulnerable young people, and when there is inadequate oversight, molesters will gain that position and molest. We’ve seen in with the Catholic Church, with the Boy Scouts, and now, again, with college sports doctors.
An Ohio State doctor is accused of molesting hundreds or thousands of male athletes. Allegedly, it was an open secret that Dr. Richard Strauss would engage in inappropriate touching, would take long showers with athletes, and would require an examination of genitals even when a student/athlete presented with an upper body injury. “I never saw Doc Strauss over a nine-year time frame,where he didn’t ask me to – where I went to see him for medicine or whatever, finger injury, shoulder, knee – where he did not want to examine my testicles. He groped. Every time,” said Mike DiSabato, a former Ohio state undergrad and graduate student.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/03/us/ohio-state-sexual-misconduct-investigation/index.html
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), an assistant coach of the wrestling team during part of the time when Strauss was the team doctor, allegedly was told of the abuse, which was allegedly an open secret anyway, and did nothing. Dealing with molesting doctors is part of an assistant coach’s job, needless to say.
I’m very interested to see where this O State story goes.
It looks like they’ve got the goods on Strauss. He took his life in 2005, so he can no longer be punished on Earth. I suppose Ohio State, and possibly the justice system, will go after enablers.
I don’t see how Rep. Jordan survives this. The allegations of molestation are awful. Jordan denies knowing anything about it, but his denials don’t look credible. Oddly, he also denied having been contacted by the Ohio State investigators, but they say they did try to contact him and he ignored their attempts.
He doesn’t look credible to me either. Based upon his personality and behavior in DC he certainly doesn’t strike me as a person that doesn’t make it his business to know about things. It’s certwinly not believable that he “missed” calls from the firm conducting the investigation.
Normally a person who needed to reach a House member would be able to call up their local office, speak to a staffer, and tell the staffer the situation, and then the staffer would relay the information to the member of Congress. I’m not sure why this wouldn’t work in Jordan’s case.
"Bill Shine, who was ousted from Fox News in a sexual harassment scandal last year, has joined the White House communications team after weeks of speculation.
The former Fox News co-president will serve as an assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff for communications, the White House said in a brief statement."
Just lovely. /sarcasm/