Harvard Zealots Abuse Title IX to Nail the Accused
By KC Johnson December 17, 2018
Harvard is perhaps the only institution in the country with multiple sets of Title IX procedures, depending on which branch of the university the student attends. At Harvard Law School, the parties are allowed to have full legal representation, the tribunal is basically independent, and there’s meaningful discovery. Harvard undergraduates, on the other hand, experience one of the most unfair procedures of any school—no hearing, no cross-examination, a single-investigator model that allows one person, hired by the Title IX office, to serve as investigator, judge, and jury.
Though inconsistent with the new Title IX regulations proposed by Betsy DeVos, the university is desperate to retain its one-sided procedures. Harvard’s new president, Lawrence Bacow, recently informed the Crimson, “It’s important to be able to encourage people to come forward, to do so without fear, and I think we are not in a position as colleges and universities more broadly, to create a process which just mimics what might be adjudicated in a court of law. I think that would be an inappropriate process for us.†He offered no evidence that fair procedures discouraged reporting, nor any explanation of whether the HLS procedures, which do provide fairness, discourage reporting.
https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2018/12/17/harvard-zealots-abuse-title-ix-to-nail-the-accused/
