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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts) Tue Mar 26, 2013, 04:04 PM Mar 2013

UNC-Chapel Hill suspends Honor Court proceeding against student who spoke out about sexual assault

March 26, 2013 1:27 PM
By Julia Dahl

... The prestigious university has been under fire in recent months after three students, a former dean and an alumna filed a complaint with the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights about how the university handles sexual assault reports by students.

On March 8, the DOE announced it was launching an investigation into the merits of the complaint, and the university has agreed to cooperate.

One complainant, sophomore Landen Gambill, made news earlier this month when she went public with the fact that she was being brought up on Honor Court charges for engaging in what the student newspaper called "disruptive and intimidating behavior" against the man she accused of raping her.

Gambill denied the charges, arguing that she had never publicly named her alleged rapist ...

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57576355-504083/unc-chapel-hill-suspends-honor-court-proceeding-against-student-who-spoke-out-about-sexual-assault/

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UNC-Chapel Hill suspends Honor Court proceeding against student who spoke out about sexual assault (Original Post) struggle4progress Mar 2013 OP

This whole thing is so incredibly disappointing. ProfessionalLeftist Mar 2013 #1

Why should rent a cops be involved in a felony investigation anyway exboyfil Mar 2013 #2

It's very common for large universities to have separate law enforcement authority struggle4progress Mar 2013 #3

it's not even rent a cops it's other students? barbtries Mar 2013 #4

Honor Court handling harassment, not assault unc70 Mar 2013 #5

ProfessionalLeftist

(4,982 posts)

1. This whole thing is so incredibly disappointing.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Tue Mar 26, 2013, 04:36 PM

Mar 2013

Seriously.

exboyfil

(17,862 posts)

2. Why should rent a cops be involved in a felony investigation anyway

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Tue Mar 26, 2013, 06:58 PM

Mar 2013

The local police should handle these investigations. Universities should be compelled to report all complaints and let the local police/DA decide what to do.

struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)

3. It's very common for large universities to have separate law enforcement authority

Reply to exboyfil (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 26, 2013, 07:33 PM

Mar 2013

barbtries

(28,789 posts)

4. it's not even rent a cops it's other students?

Reply to exboyfil (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 26, 2013, 07:40 PM

Mar 2013

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57573284-504083/unc-chapel-hill-faces-dept-of-education-probe-over-handling-of-sexual-assault-cases/

a story linked in the story in the OP.

sexual assault is a criminal matter. a matter for the police. it doesn't even seem plausible that for years UNC has handled it from within as if it wasn't an actual crime or something.

i just didn't know that it "worked" that way. it's wrong.

unc70

(6,113 posts)

5. Honor Court handling harassment, not assault

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2013, 04:55 PM

Mar 2013

This whole thing is a mess, a couple of them, but nearly all the news stories are terribly misleading.

The UNC police are a fully qualified and trained force with equal status with the Chapel Hill force. They are not rent-a-cops.

The alleged sexual assault by her boyfriend was investigated long after it supposedly happened. No evidence, her word only, they had continued dating afterward, only came out when they broke up. Hard to prove a crime.

She took her complaint to the campus special committee that handles these and other threats to the campus community (not the Honor Court). That committee found him not guilty and he was allowed back on campus the next semester.

Since then she has been loudly proclaiming him as a rapist. While she has not stated his name at rallies, news events, and such, most everyone on campus knows who he is. He is receiving death threats, etc. now. That is why he filed a complaint with the Honor Court. This is the first involvement of the HC in this matter.

The people who know the details of this case are restricted by law from disclosing the details.

Not quite the Duke lacrosse case, but not the outrage as portrayed in the news.

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