Amanda Childress, Sexual Assault Awareness Program coordinator at Dartmouth: "Why Have a Hearing? Just Expel Him"

Ma99ie · 2014-02-14T21:53:48+00:00

My letter to the dean, and several others, including Ms. Childress:

Greetings:

You'll be surprised to know that I read a posting on the website "reddit" about Ms. Childress. The post links to a story on the online website, Inside Higher Ed, entitled, "Classrooms, Courts or Neither?" (February 12, 2014), in which Ms. Childress is quoted as stating some rather unorthodox ideas about the handling of sexual assault allegations. She is quoted, in relevant part here:

"Why could we not expel a student based on an allegation?...It seems to me that we value fair and equitable processes more than we value the safety of our students. And higher education is not a right. Safety is a right. Higher education is a privilege."

Ms. Childress' cavalier attitude to due process and fundamental fairness makes me question Dartmouth's commitment to the fair treatment of all its students, particularly the male students. Title IX is a gender neutral statute and requires that both genders be free of institutional discrimination. As a parent of a (censored) year old (censored), and a former prosecutor who has prosecuted sexual assault cases through trial, I am unsettled by the fact that Dartmouth's Sexual Assault Awareness Program is staffed by persons who hold in disregard the notion that due process is important at all.

Noel_S_Jytemotiv · 2014-02-15T05:36:26+00:00

"Why could we not expel a student based on an allegation?"

Because that would empower ANYONE to have one expelled simply by opening one's mouth?

Idiots... IDIOTS!!

Is anyone out there still using their head??

SweetiePieJonas · 2014-02-14T22:39:38+00:00

Guys, your letter will be especially effective if you're a Dartmouth alum. If you or someone you know who's like-minded attended or currently attend Dartmouth, be sure to write.

dungone · 2014-02-14T22:03:22+00:00

This lady manages to cast something that is a right as a privilege and something that cannot possibly be guaranteed as a right. With her attitude, I hope she gets her way and makes safety a guaranteed right at her school - and then gets held liable in court for anyone who ever gets hurt for any reason.

2014-02-15T09:01:54+00:00

I frankly don't think this about ideology or "believing victims" as much as it is about power. If you have a process in which you have to prove somebodies guilt, even if the process is flawed, you have some transparency and accountability for your criteria to expel students. If the administration could expel any student accused of rape, they could expel anybody they want, without revealing why.

phasetwenty · 2014-02-15T03:58:30+00:00

Safety is a right

Safety is not now, nor has it even been a right.

d4m4s74 · 2014-02-15T00:47:07+00:00

Just wait until someone accuses her son (if she has one) of sexual assault and see how long it takes for her to retract that comment.

canna_fodder · 2014-02-15T06:41:34+00:00

I am accusing Amanda Clidress of bumping into be in the halls of Dartmouth, when her hand brushed past my groin. With a look of start, i look up, she smiles, not even offering an "Excuse Me", and went on with her day.. And now I would like her fired.

Mind you I have never been to Dartmouth and have no clue what she looks like. But since i've mad the allegation public. FIRE HER! It's her own logic!

JasonWaterfall · 2014-02-15T13:04:23+00:00

Higher education is not a right.

UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Art 26:

(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.

giegerwasright · 2014-02-14T22:27:07+00:00

Oh wait. Are we allowed to criticize feminists directly here now? I thought we recently banned that. Are we back on the criticizing people directly? Weird. I swear I just got chewed out by a mod for doing just that.

Also. Can we mail 47 cases of due process pamphlets to the list of people whom /u/ma99ie emailed?

GodOfAThousandForms · 2014-02-14T23:14:46+00:00

I did a google image search for that name. This image was first result.

Title	Amanda Childress, Sexual Assault Awareness Program coordinator at Dartmouth: "Why Have a Hearing? Just Expel Him"
Author	SupGermany
Upvotes	134
Comments	35
Date	February 14, 2014 8:58 PM UTC (12 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1xxfzh/amanda_childress_sexual_assault_awareness_program/
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