What do activists want from students accused of sexual assault?

By Ashe Schow

The answer is that activists want the easy way out.   Many campus activists seem to want anyone accused of sexual assault on a college campus to be removed from society, yet they don't want to give the students tools to defend their futures.  I briefly touched on this in an article on Tuesday, about proposed legislation that would make it nearly impossible for students found responsible for sexual misconduct to transfer to another school and continue their education. If misconduct hearings are a "learning experience," as some college administrators have said, then halting a student's learning seems like a bad way to go.

An obvious comparison would be to disciplinary hearings involving plagiarism, as students can be expelled for that as well, but there are distinct differences. For one, plagiarism is not a crime in broader society. For another, there's no ambiguity about plagiarism — once the accusation is made, the evidence is either there or it isn't. It never comes down to a he said/she said situation....

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