Thanks to the folks at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), we’re learning about the astonishing policy change related to how universities investigate sexual assault allegations on campus, and how easy it is for a young person — primarily young men — to be convicted of assault. Check out the unbelievable travesty of justice that occurred at the University of North Dakota. From FIRE’s blog posting:
The Grand Forks Herald published an article today by reporter Tu-Uyen Tran about former University of North Dakota (UND) student Caleb Warner’s due process nightmare.
Warner’s ordeal, which finally ended last month, began when a female UND student accused him of sexual assault following a sexual encounter that Warner believed to be consensual. Following a disciplinary hearing that employed the low “preponderance of the evidence” standard, Warner was found guilty of sexual assault by UND and suspended for three years. Meanwhile, North Dakota law enforcement officers found no evidence of wrongdoing by Warner. Instead, they charged Warner’s accuser with filing a false report and issued a warrant for her arrest, which remains outstanding.
