Guilty Until Proven Innocent — How the Obama Regime encourages kangaroo courts for sex crimes on campus

From Cathy Young at Reason.com:

[I}n February 2010, University of North Dakota student Caleb Warner was convicted by a campus tribunal and banned from school for three years, just three months before the Grand Forks County District Court issued a warrant for his alleged victim's arrest for making a false police report, a charge that prompted her to leave the state. The sanctions against Warner were vacated in October 2011 after the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) brought national attention to his story.

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Yet from the perspective of the Department of Education, which is pursuing Gambill's civil rights complaint against the university, her grievance is the only one that counts.

Federal involvement is likely to exacerbate the pro-accuser bias on many college campuses. In addition to the lower standard of proof, the recent Department of Education/Department of Justice blueprint for colleges mandates training for administrators, faculty, and student jurors involved in handling of sexual assault complaints. In practice, the training often amounts to indoctrination in the "correct" view of sexual assault. In 2011 FIRE publicized Stanford University's reading materials for student jurors (mostly excerpted from the book, Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men, by domestic violence specialist Lundy Bancroft). Among other things, students were advised that acting "logical and persuasive" in one's defense was typical of an abuser and that one should be "very, very cautious in accepting a man's claim that he has been wrongly accused" since "the great majority of allegations are substantially accurate."

So a bunch of male hating feminist are getting the Government to force colleges to change the definition of rape, change the rule on the threshold of guilt, and assume everything the woman claims is "substantially accurate".

Why?

Complaints from all sides about the way colleges handle sexual assault reports raise the question: Why should an offense as serious as rape be "prosecuted" by a college, rather than turned over to the police? The answer is that the vast majority of these charges would be unlikely to survive the most basic legal scrutiny.

Remember the Duke Lacrosse Case? or the case mentioned above, Caleb Warner?

It's not about Justice or preventing rape, it's about revenge.