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Universities should not reward gender

http://tropnews.com/universities-should-not-reward-gender/ Universities should not reward gender September 4, 2019 Sam Stroud Staff Writer Editors Note: The opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the Tropolitan or its staff members. Address responses and critiques to opinion@tropnews.com Last week, the L.A. Times reported that

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‘Trauma-Informed’ Bulletin Is Replete with Misrepresentations and Mistakes: CPI Report

PRESS RELEASE Rebecca Stewart: 513-479-3335 Email: info@prosecutorintegrity.org ‘Trauma-Informed’ Bulletin Is Replete with Misrepresentations and Mistakes: CPI Report WASHINGTON / September 3, 2019 – A new Center for Prosecutor Integrity report documents factual errors and faulty conclusions contained in a 2019 bulletin published by End Violence Against Women International. Titled, “Understanding the Neurobiology of Trauma and

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Do False Allegations Represent a Form of Domestic Violence? A Delaware Judge Said ‘Yes.’

Gordon Smith Ten years ago my marriage began to dissolve. My ex-wife soon discovered the “magic bullet” that would assure custody of our children. Her determination to “win at all costs” came very close to destroying my life. From 2009 to 2012, I was subjected to five protection orders and nine arrests, resulting in a

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Believe the Victim Trauma Informed

Highlights of New Special Report on the Neurobiology of Trauma

Center for Prosecutor Integrity September 1, 2019 Recently the Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA) published a Position Paper on “Trauma-Informed Training and Neurobiology of Trauma” that sharply criticizes the assumptions, precepts, and methods of trauma-informed proponents. Now, the Center for Prosecutor Integrity has published a separate report that takes a deep-dive into the science

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Study finds more than half of colleges ‘facially violate’ Title IX with women-only scholarships

https://www.thecollegefix.com/study-finds-more-than-half-of-colleges-facially-violate-title-ix-with-women-only-scholarships/ Study finds more than half of colleges ‘facially violate’ Title IX with women-only scholarships ALEXANDER PEASE – UMASS BOSTON •AUGUST 27, 2019 Arizona has more scholarships for women than 36 states combined have for men Men who want more scholarship money might try a novel tactic: Identify themselves as women. A review of more than 200

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Title IX

Women-Only STEM Programs Target the Gender Gap. Now the Education Dept. Is Investigating Them for Bias.

By Steven Johnson AUGUST 22, 2019 Women have long been underrepresented across science, technology, engineering, and math majors, leading colleges to start hundreds of programs — scholarships, summer camps, and societies — to draw them in. But in recent years, a handful of activists have complained that those programs, and gender-specific programs more broadly, discriminate

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Highlights from the ATIXA Position Statement on Trauma-Informed Methods

SAVE August 23, 2019 On August 22, the Association of Title IX Administrators – ATIXA – issued a Position Statement on Trauma-Informed Training and the Neurobiology of Trauma that exposes the many fallacies of “trauma-informed” concepts and methods: https://cdn.atixa.org/website-media/atixa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/20123741/2019-ATIXA-Trauma-Position-Statement-Final-Version.pdf The Statement begins by quoting a claim that is often cited in trauma-informed training materials: “Trauma

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Scholarships Title IX Equity Project

Colleges and Universities are Failing to Meet Their Title IX Obligations to Male Students

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Stewart Telephone: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org Colleges and Universities are Failing to Meet Their Title IX Obligations to Male Students WASHINGTON / August 20, 2019 – A review of scholarships at over 200 colleges and universities in 36 states reveals widespread discriminatory practices in the provision of sex-specific scholarships for male students

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Affirmative Consent: New Paradigm for Sexual Behavior

Statement of Neal Sonnett, Member of the Criminal Justice Section, to the American Bar Association House of Delegates August 12, 2019 We agreed to work with the Commission [on Domestic and Sexual Violence] on this Resolution [114], and that goes back to [Resolution] 115 at the mid-year meeting. And [Commission head] Mark Schickman and some

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Will the ABA Reject Due Process?

By KC Johnson and Stuart Taylor Jr. Aug. 11, 2019 In August 2014 the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga deemed student Corey Mock guilty of sexual assault, finding that in the disputed encounter he failed to prove he had obtained “affirmative consent” from the accuser. According to Mr. Mock’s unrebutted testimony, the female student’s actions during intercourse