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Harvard Law profs challenge federal sex-assault ‘guidance’

CAMBRIDGE – A collection of prominent law school professors, including Harvard's Alan Dershowitz, shot back at President Barack Obama's Education Department over its practice of using "Dear Colleague" letters to lay down policy mandates that ride roughshod over Americans' constitutional rights. A letter from

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Harvard Final Club fights back

CAMBRIDGE – Harvard College's Final Clubs, the exclusive social institutions unaffiliated with the Ivy League university but targeted by administrators over sexual assault data, are fighting back. In March, a school task force on campus assault released a report that ripped the undergraduate school's six all-male clubs,

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Ayotte joins bid for federal campus assault bill

WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of federal lawmakers began a push Tuesday to pass a bill that seeks to create uniform procedures for the adjudication by college bureaucrats of campus sexual assault charges. Flanked by a group of fellow lawmakers along with several victim advocates, U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-New

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WATCH: How accurate are campus sexual assault statistics?

Anyone who pays attention to the news has heard that American universities are in the midst of a campus "rape crisis." But are they? Should parents fear for their children's safety when dropping them off at school? In her Factual Feminist vlog, AEI scholar Christina Hoff

Massachusetts

Judge rips Brandeis for handling of sexual assault case

BOSTON — A federal judge on Thursday rejected Brandeis University's bid to squash a lawsuit by a student disciplined under its sexual assault policies, ripping the Waltham university's approach to adjudicating such claims. In an 89-page opinion supporting his decision to allow the lawsuit to move forward,

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Harvard and Title IX: Survey results in hand, policy debate endures

CAMBRIDGE — Harvard University remains at the forefront of the debate over campus sexual assault, even as a panel of Harvard students and professors meets to consider additional changes to the University's disciplinary procedures under Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination by educational institutions that receive

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Campus rape dogma in the age of promiscuity

Today girls constitute a large majority of students on college campuses. And yet, if we are to believe college feminists and their counterparts in the Obama administration, we are sending our daughters off to a crime scene of unprecedented proportions. According to campus rape dogma, one in five female undergraduates

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WATCH: Would a ban on fraternities solve the campus sex assault problem?

In recent years, "ban fraternities" has become the battle cry of campus gender activists seeking to reduce rates of campus rape. But will banning fraternities solve the problem? American Enterprise Institute's Factual Feminist unpacks the data. [perfectpullquote align="full" cite="" link="