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The ‘Regret Equals Rape’ Factor (Also, USC Is Decadent and Depraved)

Posted on | April 5, 2016 | 58 Comments

Everybody remembers the notorious case of John Doe v. Washington and Lee University, in which a university official reportedly told students that “regret equals rape,” advice that John Doe blamed for a false accusation of sexual assault against him by an ex-girlfriend. Washington and Lee settled that lawsuit in February, avoiding a court trial that might have have exposed the elite private university (annual tuition $46,417) to disastrous publicity. This “regret equals rape” motif has appeared in several other cases among the more than 100 lawsuits filed against universities by male students who say they were falsely accused of sexual misconduct and denied due process in the campus kangaroo court system. What happens, in some of  these cases, is that what seemed an entirely consensual encounter is subsequently deemed sexual assault, usually months later, after the accuser has regret or remorse about a hook-up or a relationship. Consider this, from a court filing involving a John Doe lawsuit against the University of Southern California:

Jane, who was a student and athlete at USC, and a group of her friends attended a fraternity party in January 2013 at a large, off-campus house in the hills near Los Angeles. Jane and her friends caught a bus from the fraternity house to the party location. John, a member of the USC football team, was on the same bus. Also attending the party were two male students from an out-of-state university, “Student 1” and “Student 2,” who were friends of John?s teammate. At some point in the evening Jane began to dance, and John began dancing with her. John said that he and Student 1 were both dancing with Jane, “sandwiching” her between them. When asked about this, Jane did not remember whether it had occurred. After dancing together for a few minutes, John pushed Jane onto a couch and gave her a provocative “lap dance,” which John characterized as “flirtatious” and “silly,” and Jane characterized as somewhat “uncomfortable” because people were watching. After the dance, John, Jane, and Student 1 went to a bedroom together. John had vaginal intercourse with Jane while Jane performed oral sex on Student 1. During the sexual activity, John and Student 1 made comments to each other about Jane?s body. All parties agree that the entirety of this encounter was consensual. Jane returned to her group of friends and told them she had sex with John; she seemed happy and excited about it. Approximately 45 minutes later, Jane and John returned to the bedroom a second time. There were multiple men in the room, and people were continually entering and exiting the room.. . .

It was during this second trip to the bedroom that the incident occurred which “Jane” later claimed was assault. Everybody involved was apparently drunk and, pardon me for drawing any unfair conclusions here, but once she had willingly done a three-way (“the entirety of this encounter was consensual”) during this party, what might a reasonable person suppose the expectations were for this second trip to the bedroom? How about “anything goes”? Call me old-fashioned, maybe, but I have no idea what the prevailing customs and norms are for drunken college orgies nowadays. Really, when you’re partying with football players and frat boys at USC (annual tuition $50,210), what are the reasonable expectations concerning acts of sexual perversion?

Well, John Doe got expelled for his role in this orgy, not because the university has any moral standards — USC Is Decadent and Depraved — but because “Jane” got counseling and decided she was a victim:

The incident happened in January 2013. Jane reported it to SJACS in August 2013. She told SJACS representatives that in mid-February her athletic coach suggested that she had confidence issues, and therefore recommended that she see an athletics counselor. When the counselor asked Jane if she had ever been sexually assaulted, “it dawned on me and I connected it.” She then reported to the counselor that she was assaulted by John and several other men at the party. She told her parents about the incident in July of that year, and reported the incident to the school in August.

The rest of the story is merely details, unless you happen to care about the fate of John, who is just another guy who got chewed up by the campus machinery where male students are denied due-process rights.

What conclusions can we draw from this case? It seems obvious that every student at USC is a dangerous pervert. This is why parents pay $50,210 a year, so that their sons and daughters can have drunken orgies at a “prestigious” private university that has no moral standards whatsoever.

Students at USC are freaks and creeps and degenerates of every description. No conscientious parent would spend a cent to send their child to such a wretched hive of scum and villainy as USC, and therefore the only students who enroll there are the offspring of negligent parents who don’t mind squandering $50,210 a year to have their child “educated” in that foul cesspool of immoral hedonism.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!

UPDATE II: A commenter points out that the court filing cited is a judge’s ruling in the accused student’s favor. Here’s a news account:

SAN FRANCISCO — Wading into the fraught issue of sex crimes on college campuses, a state appeals court has reversed the suspension of a male USC student accused of participating in a group sexual assault against a female student.
The Second District Court of Appeal held that the male student, a USC football player referred to only as John Doe, wasn’t given sufficient notice of the allegations against him or a fair hearing by the school before being suspended.
The ruling highlights the difficult task universities have in balancing accused students’ due process rights with the concerns of victims and federal officials who have urged schools to adopt procedures to keep campuses safe.
Justice Audrey Collins acknowledged in Tuesday’s unanimous panel decision “that universities need adequate tools to address the very serious and sensitive problem of sexual assault on campus.” Still she wrote that “it is not too heavy a burden to require that students facing disciplinary action be informed of the factual basis for the charges against them.”
The male student’s attorney, Marc Harris of Scheper Kim & Harris, said that his client is “extremely gratified by the decision.” . . .
“All the issues that we raised in the court of appeal are issues that we brought up with USC” before turning to the state courts, he said. “This has been a long, painful and damaging path that John has had to take,” he said. He declined to say whether his client will seek to return to USC.

Honestly, if John Doe were my client, I would advise strongly against going anywhere near USC. The place is corrupt beyond description.




 


Category: Crime, Education, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 04.05.12

Posted on | April 5, 2016 | 5 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Huma and Hillary
Da Tech Guy: Stacy McCain, the ELCA, and Misidentifying the Foe
The Political Hat: Defender of What Faith?
Michelle Malkin: #VSPShooting – Trooper Assassin James Brown III Was A Cop-Hating Django
Twitchy: Trump Surrogate Roger Stone Threatens To Sic Thugs On Delegates
Shark Tank: Mr. Rubio Goes (Back) to Washington


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Sanders Campaign Keeps Cash Flow Pumping
American Thinker: Trump’s Irrational Trade Non-Sequitur
Conservatives4Palin: Sarah Palin Enlightens Pro-Rape Rapper Azealia Banks
Don Surber: How Kondracke Is Wrong About NATO
Jammie Wearing Fools: Hannity’s Ridiculously Pro-Trump “Town Hall”
Joe For America: Did Michelle Obama Say White Folks Are What’s Wrong With America?
JustOneMinute: Go ‘Nova
Pamela Geller: Navy Reports Huge Shipment Of Iranian Weapons Seized En Route To Yemen Jihadis Fighting US Allies
Shot In The Dark: It’s Always Sunny In Goteborg
STUMP: Chicago Day Of Action Roundup, and Where’s The Money?
The Jawa Report: Ministry Of Irony – Belgian Police Ban Anti-Muslim Protest, End Up Using Water Cannons On Muslim Protesters
The Lonely Conservative: Donald Trump’s Delegate Problem
The Quinton Report: Bernie Sanders Claims No Constitutional Protection For Unborn
This Ain’t Hell: Joe Medicine Crow, RIP
Weasel Zippers: LA Times Goes Full Racist
Megan McArdle: When Drugs Are Legal, Gangs Will Diversify
Mark Steyn: Just For Laughs Festival (Toronto Branch)


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‘Rolling Stone’s Sole Source for the False Tale of Rape’ Must Testify in Lawsuit

Posted on | April 5, 2016 | 18 Comments

 

Jackie Coakley, the former University of Virginia student whose false story of a fraternity gang rape became the subject of a 2014 Rolling Stone story, will now be compelled to tell the truth under oath:

A Virginia judge has ruled that the woman at the center of Rolling Stone’s discredited story about an alleged frat house gang rape must testify as part of a lawsuit against the magazine.
The woman identified only as “Jackie” will be deposed on Thursday by attorneys representing Rolling Stone and Nicole Eramo, the University of Virginia administrator who is suing the magazine and the author of the now-retracted article, Sabrina Rubin Erdely. . . .
Eramo, an associate dean of students at UVA, is suing Rolling Stone and Erdely for defamation over what she says was an unfair portrayal of her as an insensitive campus bureaucrat in the story. She is seeking $7.85 million in damages. . . .
At a hearing held Monday in a Charlottesville, Virginia, Judge Glen E. Conrad denied a motion filed by Jackie’s attorneys to quash the deposition subpoena. . . .
Libby Locke, an attorney for Eramo, said Rolling Stone’s negligence led to her client’s unflattering portrayal.
“Jackie was Rolling Stone’s sole source for the false tale of rape that it recklessly published. There were numerous red flags in Jackie’s account, which should have put Rolling Stone on notice that she was not a credible source for information,” Locke said. “Nevertheless, Rolling Stone was dead set on portraying Dean Eramo as a callous administrator who discouraged Jackie from reporting an assault to police — when in fact, it appears that Jackie knew that her tale of rape would not have stood up under real scrutiny and investigation. Had Rolling Stone done the fact-checking and digging that they were legally and ethically required to do as journalists, Dean Eramo would not have been so wrongfully targeted.” . . .
Rolling Stone also faces a $25 million suit from the UVA fraternity Phi Kappa Psi that was named in the article.
Three former frat members have also filed a suit against Rolling Stone, but have not specified an amount.

The liar Jackie Coakley has tried desperately to avoid telling the truth. Last week, the judge slapped down another one of her pathetic excuses.

UPDATE: Tell @AmandaMarcotte and @JessicaValenti about this news, because apparently the liars didn’t notice.

 

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Category: Crime, Education, Journalism, Media Bias, Sex Trouble

Gender-Neutral at Notre Dame?

Posted on | April 5, 2016 | 63 Comments

 

The University of Notre Dame is a Catholic school, most famous for its Fighting Irish football team and, uh, “gender-nonconforming people.”

Gender-neutral Bathrooms
Easy access to a bathroom without fear of harassment is a privilege that is often taken for granted. Transgender, genderqueer, and other gender-nonconforming people often feel uncomfortable and are subject to harassment and violence when using male- or female-specific bathrooms.
If you know of a gender-neutral bathroom on or around campus, let us know by filling out a brief Bathroom Survey so that we can make Notre Dame a safe and inclusive environment for everyone.
The most recent list of gender-neutral bathrooms can be found here.

About 8,500 students attend Notre Dame, where the tuition is $47,929 a year. How many Notre Dame students are “gender-nonconforming people”? Do these students not have parents or high-school guidance counselors who can advise them that, you know, if you want to be “gender-nonconforming,” maybe Notre Dame isn’t the best place to do it?

Alas, the advocates of “progress,” “equality” and “diversity” insist that every institution must be equally diverse and progressive, including Catholic universities. Here’s a headline from December 2012:

Notre Dame concludes comprehensive review
of GLBTQ student services and support
After a five-month review process, University of Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., has accepted recommendations from the Office of Student Affairs to expand and enhance the support of and services for students who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning (GLBTQ), including the creation of a University recognized student organization.
The recommendations are part of a comprehensive pastoral plan that includes an array of initiatives grounded in the Catholic mission of the University.
“I appreciate the careful and thoughtful work of this review that considered both the needs of our students and the teachings of the Catholic Church,” Father Jenkins said. “As articulated in the University’s ‘Spirit of Inclusion’ statement, Notre Dame’s goal remains to create and sustain a welcoming and inclusive environment for all students, and I am confident that this multi-faceted, pastoral approach represents the next step in advancing our efforts toward this aspiration for our GLBTQ students.”
The plan, titled “Beloved Friends and Allies: A Pastoral Plan for the Support and Holistic Development of GLBTQ and Heterosexual Students at the University of Notre Dame,” was crafted by members of the Student Affairs staff. It follows a study of Catholic doctrine and teaching, listening sessions with Notre Dame students and an examination of student clubs and structures at other Catholic universities. Rooted in Catholic teaching on sexuality and gender identity, the plan emphasizes the “respect, compassion and sensitivity” due to all, and calls all Notre Dame students to cultivate chaste relationships and to support one another in a community of friendship. A document detailing the review process, relevant Church teaching and specifics of the implementation of the plan is available online at friendsandallies.nd.edu.
After requests last spring by Notre Dame students for a gay-straight alliance or similar club, Father Jenkins asked for a review of the breadth of structures and support for students who identify as GLBTQ. While respectful of the education and awareness work of the University’s Core Council for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Questioning Students, students voiced a desire for services that provide greater community and support.

You see that once Notre Dame decided to appease the forces of “progress,” “equality” and “diversity,” complete surrender was inevitable.

The “Gender Relations Center” at Notre Dame now offers a plethora of services to the, uh, “gender-nonconforming” community:

 

LGBTQ 101
LGBTQ 101 is a two-hour long interactive presentation, designed to provide participants with a basic understanding and greater awareness of issues faced by students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ) within today’s culture. This presentation includes an overview of the Catholic church’s teachings on sexual orientation, definitions related to sexual orientation and gender identity, introduction to the concepts of homophobia and heterosexism, as well as common myths and misunderstandings about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender identities. Please contact Maureen McKenney, Assistant Director for LGBTQ Student Concerns ([email protected]), for more information or to sign up for a session.

 

PRISMND
Founded in 2013, PrismND is Notre Dame’s first official student organization dedicated to serving the LGBTQ and ally community on campus. The organization provides programming dedicated to fostering the development of the community, and raising awareness on campus as to the community’s needs.
In the Notre Dame family, intolerance against some of us intolerance against all of us.

Certainly, alumni of Notre Dame University and parents of prospective students will want to learn more about the inclusive agenda of diversity, equality and progress at the university’s “Gender Relations Center.”

 

The rhetoric of “Beloved Friends and Allies” cannot disguise what actually happened, i.e., Notre Dame’s abject surrender to the totalitarian demands of an anti-Christian movement which is ruthlessly determined to destroy the Church, insofar as it cannot control the Church. When you see what “The Radical Theology of Feminism” has done to the liberal Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), don’t you realize that if the Church refuses to cling to truth, and instead becomes “conformed to this world” (Romans 12:2), eventually there will be no Church at all? My Catholic friend Pete Da Tech Guy had a big “I told you so” at the expense of the Lutherans, but what does Notre Dame’s surrender portend?

What we are witnessing in the 21st century is the revival of an ancient heresy, a postmodern version of Gnosticism. The theologian Peter Jones first described this weird phenomenon in his 1992 book The Gnostic Empire Strikes Back: An Old Heresy for the New Age. Jones further explored the neo-Gnostic trend in his 1997 book Spirit Wars: Pagan Revival in Christian America. This steady drift toward syncretism suggests that many Christian “leaders” and institutions are now “giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron” (I Timothy 4:1-3 KJV).

“Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself . . . she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.”
— Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, 1786

If leaders of Christian institutions will not stand up for the truth now, eventually Christians will no longer have liberty to speak the truth.





 


Category: Catholics, Education, Gays, Religion, Sex Trouble

Confession of a ‘F–king Sociopath’

Posted on | April 4, 2016 | 25 Comments

So, there was this guy who claimed to be a Marine diagnosed with terminal cancer and told he had only 18 months to live. He collected a lot of online donations, but then Michael Kocher was arrested on felony drug charges, and posted this shocking confession on Facebook:

“I’m going to jail for a very long time, I f–ked up bad this time. So I’m coming clean about everything. I’m a f–king sociopath. . . .
“The last few months I’ve been extremely mentally addicted to smoking cocaine. . . .
“Most of my past is a mix of truth, exaggeration, and fabrication. . . .
“I was also a full blown heroin addict . . . Prior to moving to Denver I had fully relapsed for about a year. . . .
“I am just a bad person who only cares about his own selfish desires. I have destroyed so many lives to get what I wanted.”

A liar, a dopehead, a thief. And he probably voted for Obama, too.

 

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 04.04.16

Posted on | April 4, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Da Tech Guy: Baldilocks – Organized Chaos
The Political Hat: Not A Tumblr Witch? You Can Still Cast +3 Whine of Political Correctness
Michelle Malkin: How to Crack Rove’s GOP-e Speak
Twitchy: Obama Admin Pushing Banks To Make Risky Home Loans
Shark Tank: Wasserman-Schultz’s Primary Challenger Makes Financial Accusations Stick


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Massive Worldwide Fallout Over Panama Papers
American Thinker: Killing Christianity In America
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Time Of Fog And Fire
Conservatives4Palin: Air France Stewardesses Mutiny Over Headscarf Order
Don Surber: I’m Going To Miss Pepsi
Jammie Wearing Fools: White Nationalists Flood Wisconsin With Pro-Trump Robocalls
Joe For America: Rep. Jason Chaffetz Takes Huge Step Toward Abolishing BLM Power
JustOneMinute: Life’s Little Mysteries, Or, What’s The Matter With Indiana?
Pamela Geller: Police Prepare To Enforce Sharia On Twitter
Shot In The Dark: You Don’t Do Business Against The Family
STUMP: Show Us The Money! From Somewhere!
The Jawa Report: Emory College Evacuated After Chalk Found
The Lonely Conservative: The Latest From The Radical Feminists – Adultism And Monosexual Privilege
The Quinton Report: Voter Registration Drives Violates Federal Law
This Ain’t Hell: Brit Army To Rewrite Physical Standards To Accommodate More Women
Weasel Zippers: Congress Investigating Obama Regime Deception On Iran Nuke Deal
Megan McArdle: The Real Victims Of Political Bias On Campus
Mark Steyn: Live In Toronto – Steyn & Farage Vs. Arbour & Schama


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Harvard Law Is Decadent and Depraved

Posted on | April 4, 2016 | 51 Comments

 

Have you ever heard of Isaac Royall Jr.? Me, neither, until I started reading about “Reclaim Harvard Law,” an anti-white protest group at Harvard University Law School. Earlier this year, Harvard’s administration surrendered to an unruly mob of student grievance-mongers who had demanded that the official seal of the Law School be changed to remove a symbolic reference to Royall, a wealthy Massachusetts man who died in 1781 and left a bequest in his will that endowed the first professorship at Harvard Law. Why did these students target Royall’s legacy? Because they learned that Royall owned slaves and therefore his wealth, part of which he gave to Harvard Law, was tainted, and therefore Harvard Law’s seal — showing three sheaves of wheat, a symbol derived from the Royall family crest — was a legacy of slavery.

Does that make sense? No, of course not. But these young hooligans have convinced themselves they are Victims of Oppression, which means that their arguments don’t have to make sense. This is how it goes in elite education nowadays: “I am oppressed, therefore, yield to my demands.”

Predictably, the craven fools who run Harvard Law (annual tuition $58,242) granted the ridiculous demands of the mob. Good-bye, three sheaves of wheat! Good-bye, symbolic legacy of Mr. Royall, who made his fortune the way a lot of Yankees made their fortunes before Yankees became convinced that slavery was an intolerable wrong.

This kind of weaponization of history by race-hustlers is a phenomenon that Thomas Sowell addresses in The Quest for Cosmic Justice. Instead of worrying about any practical problem of their individual lives in the 21st century, these Harvard Law students have gone rooting around in history to locate something they can construe as a collective wrong, employed as a grievance in an identity-politics drama. Here is some dead white guy who owned black slaves, and therefore black Harvard Law students have a reason to be angry, despite the fact that (a) Royall has been dead for 235 years, (b) these black students are in fact indirect beneficiaries of the wealth Royall left behind to Harvard Law, and (c) it is absurd to expect intelligent people to believe that any student at Harvard Law is actually oppressed.

Dear God in heaven! You whining brats have been fortunate enough to be admitted to one of the most prestigious schools on the planet! Read more

Category: Alabama, Education, Intellectuals, Racism

Rule 5 Sunday: Time Begins on Opening Day

Posted on | April 3, 2016 | 5 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Because everything gets prostituted for the benefit of the networks these days, baseball’s Opening Day has actually been stretched out over two days: tonight and tomorrow. Since I’m finally in a place of my own again, I’ve spent some of my wages from the tax mines on a new TV and an Amazon Fire Stick, with which I intend to watch a buttload of baseball this season…after tax season is over and I’m back from the annual trip to Minnesota for anime & family & friends. This week’s appetizer, for a number of reasons, is Alyssa Milano, dressed appropriately to support her Tigers.

Because Kate Upton would be Too Much of a Good Thing, and You are Not Worthy. Also, Alyssa Milano.

The Rio Norte Line returns (after hibernating all winter) with Maria Sharapova’s Butt Goes To Mexico, followed by Goodstuff with Cheryl Tiegs, 90 Miles from Tyranny with Toned and Bronzed, Lingerie Classic Beauty, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism has a Rule 5 Cabinet Post and (for variety)  a Saturday Brunettenarok; The Last Tradition chips in with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Avonte Wright, Meanwhile, the First Street Journal says the IDF Makes His Posting Easy!

EBL’s frolicking herd this week includes the late Patty Duke, Think Winter Is Over?, Waterloo!, Alison Rapp, and Spring Break.

A View from the Beach entices us with Quantico Girls Won’t You Come Out Tonight?, A Second Viking Site Found in North America? (vikings, natch), Denisovans in Paradise (cavegirls), Cuban Cutie Not Thrilled by the Havana Tango, Fish Lead to Filter Breakthrough, RIP – Patty Duke, Nothing to See at Clinton.com, Just 147 FBI agents, Prehistoric Puppies Found Preserved in Siberia, FBI still Coming at Clinton.com, Monday Morning Paulatics, The Morning Workout, Happy Easter!, and It Takes Twitter to Raise a Monster (robots).

The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes were Jessica Camacho, Maria Robles, Jacqueline Petzak, Misako Yasuda, Asha Kamali, Nami Shirota, and Sasha Banks.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Britt Ekland, his Vintage Babe is Janet Blair, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Express. At Dustbury, it’s Patty Donahue and Fockeline Ouwerkerk (no, really!).

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery, especially those of you who linked us in the FMJRA and brought us into third place among the most-linked posts last week! Deadline to submit your links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 roundup is midnight on Saturday, April 9. Links for the FMJRA, of course, are due at noon.


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