The most common penalty issued by universities against students who have sexually assaulted another student is a one-semester suspension.
The second most common penalty is requiring the student to write a reflection paper.
Those penalties are only enforced after extensive due process.
I never have understood why we allow colleges and universities to handle sexual assault cases themselves. Is it not a real crime because it happened on campus? We gonna start letting them handle their own homicides?
The reports of student bans from campus at Minnesota do not appear to be credible. I'm leaving my post up, however, because it is a commentary on the discipline of protestors generally and not Minnesota specifically.
And this assumes that the said college administration takes of sexual assault seriously and actually does an investigation instead of just shrugging the whole thing off as "boys will be boys" and "alcohol was involved, so recall is unreliable."
It's not that extensive. Sexual assault is a crime. It shouldn't be handled by the university when the very worst thing they cam do is expel the student and send them back home to sexually assault the women who never went to college.
Though I am a little confused here—was it the police or the university who banned people from campus for a year?
(Though tbf to the journalists, they’re not used to writing agency to police, so that’s gotta be a little confusing.)
Has anyone got a link that actually corroborates the ban?
I've been looking and can't find one.
(Tents are not allowed on campus without a permit. Thus, the police.)
Not that I'm not sorry to say, but how about a peek behind the curtain or even backstage. The usual contrast research/teaching does not apply in law. It's you vs. the institution and I'd say the latter had talks among itself and the "virologists" of the like, having the damn thing on their screens.
How exactly can they get away with this at a public university. Pretty sure they cant just take away due process can they? Private school I could see this maybe happening. Public university i would think would have less leeway to just kick students out.
Two wrongs - one ridiculous lack of any real punishment for sex offenders, and one exaggerated for protesting - do not right make.
Hopefully, among arrested protesters there will be some previously not punished sex offenders, just to tip scales of justice a bit toward "neutral" ;)