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PR: Four Reasons Why General Counsel Should Not Allow ‘Trauma-Informed’ Investigations for Title IX Cases

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Stewart Telephone: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org Four Reasons Why General Counsel Should Not Allow ‘Trauma-Informed’ Investigations for Title IX Cases WASHINGTON / August 3, 2020 – With less than two weeks remaining before the effective date of the new Title IX regulation, SAVE is advising university counsel to review institutional polices to

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To cripple the abusive campus ‘sex bureaucracy,’ rein in the Title IX coordinators

By Alison Somlin If you want to entrench a government policy, make sure someone’s job depends on enforcing it. Even if that person isn’t a true believer in the program initially, she will be by the time her first paycheck arrives – and increasingly after that. That’s certainly the case with the education system’s Title

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Double Jeopardy: SAVE Calls on College Administrators to Assure Due Process Protections for Black Students in Title IX Proceedings

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Stewart Telephone: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org Double Jeopardy: SAVE Calls on College Administrators to Assure Due Process Protections for Black Students in Title IX Proceedings WASHINGTON / July 28, 2020 – SAVE recently released a study that shows black male students face a type of “double jeopardy” by virtue of being male and

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Supreme Court Asked to Review Title IX ‘Circuit Split’

By Greta Anderson July 24, 2020 Former Michigan State University students have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review an appellate court’s December 2019 decision in their case against the university, in which a judge delivered a precedent-setting and unfavorable decision for victims of sexual misconduct. The petition to the Supreme Court, made by Emily Kollaritsch and other

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The ACLU’s ‘Death Star’ Client in Its Title IX Lawsuit

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/06/21/the_aclus_death_star_client_in_its_title_ix_lawsuit_143490.html The ACLU’s ‘Death Star’ Client in Its Title IX Lawsuit COMMENTARY By KC Johnson & Stuart Taylor Jr. June 21, 2020 The American Civil Liberties Union has been deservedly criticized for its May 14 lawsuit indirectly attacking the civil liberties of students accused of sexual assault, who have since 2011 been subjected to grotesquely unfair campus

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Myths and Hoaxes of Sexual Abuse Stoke ‘Politically Useful’ Fear

by Wendy McElroy [S]ince love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.”—Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513 For those who want to control a population, fear is more useful than love and far easier to elicit. A culture conditioned to feel knee-jerk

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New Title IX Rules Strengthen Rights For Victims and Due Process For Accused

by Michelle Owens For nearly a decade, college administrators used the pseudo-legal authority they received from the Obama Administration to set up Wonderland-worthy courts where the Queen of Hearts’ motto, “sentence first – verdict afterwards,” was the law of the land. While many argued this was done to make it easier for victims to come

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Black Immigrant Chaplain Claims Christian College Used Bogus Title IX Investigation to Fire Him

HENRY KOKKELER – WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY • JULY 16, 2020 ‘From the outset … race was very much at issue’ A professor’s race heavily factored into his firing on the grounds of making racially and sexually insensitive comments, according to his attorney. Wheaton College, known informally as the Harvard of evangelical colleges, publicly announced the dismissal of

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Betsy DeVos Thanks Assistant Secretary Marcus for His Service Leading Civil Rights Office

July 9, 2020 WASHINGTON—U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos praised Assistant Secretary Kenneth L. Marcus for his strong leadership of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and for the remarkable results achieved after Marcus announced his upcoming departure from government service to return to the private sector. “I am so thankful for Ken’s strong leadership

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Ringing the Bell of Justice, 14 Attorneys General Remind Colleges of their Legal Duties Under Title IX

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Stewart Telephone: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org Ringing the Bell of Justice, 14 Attorneys General Remind Colleges of their Legal Duties Under Title IX WASHINGTON / July 20, 2020 – The Attorneys General from 14 states have released an Amicus Brief that summarizes the legal obligations of colleges and universities in responding to