No Campus for White Men: The Transformation of Higher Education into Hateful Indoctrination by Scott Greer

Author:Scott Greer [Greer, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: WND Books
Published: 2017-01-03T22:00:00+00:00

The new guidelines also present a threat to campus free speech, according to the FIRE report. The Dear Colleague letter failed to mention that universities are obligated to respect the free speech rights of students. It also failed to clarify the distinction between provable harassment and protected speech. According to the speech advocacy group, this lack of clarification allows colleges to pursue “vague and overly broad sexual harassment policies” that run the risk of squashing the free speech rights of students.33

Yet it appears schools didn’t heed the warnings of FIRE in the ensuing years. Many sexual assault cases that occur on campus are decided within university administrative hearings, not in the justice system. With a lower standard of proof needed and panels featuring untrained students and school officials, this system, unsurprisingly, makes terrible rulings.

Multiple innocent young men have found themselves expelled from school due to these incompetent hearings. A few famous examples include Drew Sterrett, a University of Michigan undergrad who was expelled after being found guilty of rape by his school – even though there was an abundance of evidence showing he was engaged in consensual sex. The ruling was later nullified three years after his expulsion, in 2015.34 Another prominent example is Caleb Warner, a student at the University of North Dakota. In 2010, Warner was expelled after being found guilty by the school under the nebulous “preponderance of evidence” standard. It took over a year for UND to reverse its decision. However, the local police department had already taken action in the case at the same time that Warner was expelled – against his accuser, for filing a false police report.35

Possibly the worst example of this procedure comes from the University of Tennessee–Chattanooga. Corey Mock was a student and wrestler for UTC when he met up with Molly Morris at a house party in spring 2014. The two hooked up after the party. Months after the encounter, Morris claimed to school officials that she was given a spiked drink and that Mock had raped her. It was a classic he said, she said case, with little proof an actual crime was committed, yet administrators dawdled over whether they should expel Mock. His first hearing, in June 2014, resulted in a decision to clear him of any wrongdoing. Then a letter of reconsideration was filed by the accuser, which apparently convinced the presiding administrator, Joanie Sompayrac, to overturn her initial ruling in August and expel Mock from UTC. He was later reinstated after appealing the decision. When the school learned that Vice was investigating the case in November, they removed him from the wrestling team and then eventually expelled him before the article ran in December.36

In 2015, a Tennessee judge overruled the school’s final decision, stating in her decision that UTC’s actions were “arbitrary and capricious.” “The UTC Chancellor improperly shifted the burden of proof and imposed an untenable standard upon Mr. Mock to disprove the accusation that he forcible assaulted Ms. Morris,” Judge Carol McCoy ruled at the time.

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