Universities have no business pursuing criminal charges. That’s the business of the police and the courts.
This is what happens when academicians pretend to be police.
In 2014, a white female student at the University of Findlay accused two black athletes of sexually assaulting her. The university expelled the two men—a basketball player and a football player—24 hours later, without bothering to interview witnesses who would have contradicted the accusation. According to the two men’s lawsuit against Findlay, investigators didn’t even interview the young woman.
In myoriginal write-up of the lawsuit, I called it perhaps the most blatantly unfair Title IX case I had ever covered. (Title IX is the federal statute prohibiting sex-based discrimination in education.)
That dispute is still working its way through the courts. In the meantime, one of the young men—Alphonso Baity, now 23—was finally able to find a basketball program that would let him on the team: Duquesne University. That was quite an accomplishment; students expelled for sexual misconduct can have a tough time earning admission to another school, no matter how farcical the charges against them.
But Baity recently got some bad news. The National College Athletic Association won’t let him play.
“This young man is being punished again,” says Don Maurice Jackson, Baity’s attorney. “Not by Duquesne, because Duquesne actually wants the young man on the floor. They want him on the floor. He’s been victimized by the NCAA.”
Via Reason