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Campus Is a Poor Court for Students Facing Sexual-Misconduct Charges

By The Chronicle of Higher Education 10/1/2012

“As student-conduct administrators nationwide know all too well, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights required in a letter issued last April that institutions adopt our judiciary’s lowest standard of proof—the “preponderance of evidence” standard—for use in campus sexual-misconduct hearings, which handle allegations ranging from sexual harassment to sexual assault and rape. …”

Read the entire article: http://chronicle.com/article/Campus-Is-a-Poor-Court-for/134770/