the following is a comment by /u/ExileOnMeanStreet on the JusticePorn post "Harvard Law professor accused of sexual assault of a minor. Can account for every single accuse instance and proves he wasn't even in the vicinity of the accuser. Counter sues her and sues for disbarment of both lawyers who filed the case against him." Falsely accused of rape? No money or connections? Not a Harvard Law professor? You are in a bad situation.

And that right there is why Dershowitz and 38 current and retired law professors from Harvard Law School have come out this year against the Federal Government's assault on the due process rights of males accused of sexual assault/rape on college campuses around the country. Many of the young men who have been accused of sexual assault/rape unfortunately are poor and helpless from a legal standpoint and do not have the connections, money, or the brains to fight back against the university kangaroo court systems that have sprung up across our nation's campuses within the last five to ten years.

Despite the federal government and female senators like Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) being hellbent on lowering the standard of proof needed for throwing men off of college campuses when a rape is alleged, the federal government won their four year legal battle with Harvard Law School this week over Harvard's refusal to adopt federal policies that will make it much harder for men to defend themselves against sexual assault accusations on campus. For years, Harvard's law professors railed against the government's insistence on making it easier for allegedly victimized college women to have their alleged assailants expelled from campus yet, in the end, the government cited Harvard Law School for failing to adequately address the problem of campus sexual assault and stated that the law school was in violation of Title IX.

In an interesting twist, many of the college males who have been accused of sexual assault/rape have used this exact statute (Title IX) to counter-sue their universities. These accused males have used Title IX to sue their universities for violating their rights to due process and some students have scored victories using this method while other cases are currently pending and/or are bogged down in extremely costly legal battles with their universities with no resolution in sight. Some universities who have attempted to railroad men by giving them no right to have legal representation during internal school court proceedings shielded from both law enforcement and the general public have found themselves in trouble when sued after they suspended or expelled a male student accused of sexual assault. Occidental College went so far as to fight against a judge's order to unseal documents relating to an alleged rape on their campus that - after examining the sealed documents written up and maintained during the school's internal investigation - seemed to suggest that the victim had likely said that she was raped after she had a sexual experience that she later regretted.

Below are some pieces discussing college males who have used Title IX when counter-suing their schools.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/08/09/accused-rape-men-allege-discrimination-under-title-ix

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-16/college-men-accused-of-sexual-assault-say-their-rights-violated.html

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/06/26/students-accused-campus-sexual-assaults-fighting-back/HiierdwFHb3o35w6oZXOJJ/story.html

Some politicians, feminists, and other special interest groups are hellbent on making it as easy as possible for men to be expelled from universities when a sex assault is alleged and they are hellbent on this because they have been both fed and have been pushing the narrative for many years that 1 in 5 women on campus will be sexually assaulted during their four year stay. They have trotted out false statistics like this for years in order to ramp up campus rape hysteria and nowhere has the effect of this hysteria been more clear in recent years than with Duke Lacrosse in 2006 and with last month's unraveling of the University of Virginia gang rape. I have written an extensive comment about the fallout from the UVA rape story here if you are interesting in my thoughts on the matter. Thankfully, last month the U.S. Justice Department officially released a detailed report on campus sexual assault that - once and for all - buried the notion that 1 in 5 women are sexually assaulted on campuses each year. The findings of the study concluded that the real sexual assault rate for college females per year attending four year universities was 6 in 1,000 and not 1 in 5. Here is a link to a good analysis of the Justice Bureau's report and within this analysis is the official Justice Bureau report itself.

If the sexual assault rate is now officially recognized as being much lower than the 1 in 5 rate trumpeted by feminists and a number of politicians in the last year, then why are we still allowing for the federal government and universities to railroad their men who are accused of sexual assault when there is no actual rape epidemic taking place on U.S. campuses? I wish that I knew. What I do know is that unless you are Alan Dershowitz and have the brains, money, connections, and/or legal acumen that Dershowitz has when dealing with a sexual assault accusation, you are potentially facing down a serious problem and mark pinned on you that could absolutely ruin your life beyond repair.

For those who found this comment worth reading and informative, I would just like to end it by linking this piece by Emily Yoffe (well-known for her 'Dear Prudence' advice columns in Slate and for her work in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and other mainstream publications) that she dubbed "The College Rape Overcorrection". If you are going to spend any of your spare time reading about the issues that I have outlined here, this excellent and - if you're a male - chilling piece on campus rape hysteria and who is pushing the narrative in America is the one piece above all others that you should read. There are passages that will genuinely scare you and give you chills if you are a young man or if you happen to be anyone who has a young man or young men in your life that you care about. I cannot recommend it enough to not just men but to everyone.