Mizzou and Title IX

[excringency]

The University of Missouri has created a full time position to ensure compliance with Title IX to include the handling of sexual assault cases. I wonder how many of the fifty five universities under investigation for sexual assault problems have a similar position? I would hazard a guess of zero.

http://www.komu.com/news/mu-announces-full-time-title-ix-position-57512/

[theHandpuppet]

1. I know there's been areal problem at the military academies

Which they are starting to address but it's going to be a hurdle overcoming the machismo culture.

Sexual assault prevention: Response must extend beyond legal realm
Posted 6/5/2014
Commentary by Don Branum
Academy Public Affairs

6/5/2014 - U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- Every time the Air Force puts a convicted sex offender behind bars, it sends a powerful message: There is no place in the force for those who would prey on their fellow Airmen.
But a comprehensive sexual assault prevention and response program cannot afford to focus exclusively on delivering justice to perpetrators. It must also offer help for victims.

Three cases at the Air Force Academy went to courts-martial in the 2012-2013 academic year. That same academic year, 14 other cases opened based on reports during that academic year and did not go to trial or were dismissed in the Article 32 stage.

The Bill of Rights affords defendants with several rights, including the right to confront witnesses against them and the right to the presumption of innocence, unless prosecutors can prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. But it's hard to meet such a high standard when prosecutors, with little or no forensic evidence, have to rely on circumstantial "he-said, she-said" evidence. That may be part of the reason why only about 3 percent of sexual predators ever see a day in prison, according to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network.

Air Force judge advocates, then, have their work cut out for them, as do the Air Force Office of Special Investigations agents who handle unrestricted reports of sexual assault. And so do sexual assault response coordinators and victim advocates, who work to help victims who report their assaults through either unrestricted or restricted channels. The JA and OSI here investigated roughly 18 unrestricted reports here in 2012-2013; the Academy's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response office handled those and 27 other restricted reports, for a total of 45....

MORE at http://www.usafa.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123413485