The Senate committee that handles education issues held a hearing this summer on campus sexual assault that didn’t feature any advocates for due process or rights for accused students.
Those advocates had to submit testimony for the record, rather than have the opportunity before a national TV audience to explain the plight of students falsely accused of assault.
Its House counterpart’s higher education subcommittee is holding a hearing tomorrow on campus sexual assault that at least features one advocate of due process, Joe Cohn of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
But the rest of the witness list suggests he’ll be in the minority.
Subcmte to discuss sexual assault on college campuses: http://t.co/lnnZDFIdMI
— House Committee on Education & the Workforce (@EdWorkforceCmte) September 9, 2015
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Also testifying:
The top lobbyist for the American Association of University Women, Lisa Maatz, who calls herself a “Snarky feminist, smartypants pundit, asshat whistleblower” on Twitter. Maatz implied to The Huffington Post this spring that the widely cited statistic that one in five women will be sexually assaulted at some point in their college careers was probably too low.
The top lawyer for Dickinson College, which four years ago changed its sexual-assault policies in order to end a three-day sit-in by student activists. They had previously threatened to publicize the name of an accused student going through an assault investigation.
The head of campus life at Wake Forest University, which hired its first full-time Title IX coordinator last fall and instituted new sexual-misconduct policies last week specifically for faculty and staff.
The hearing is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. and will be webcast live.
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