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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
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Originally Posted by Adder
Don't agree at all. He was sexually aggressive in a way that probably doesn't meet the legal definition of assault but might meet the student conduct policy definition on many campuses. That it's just slightly over the line on the other side doesn't make it not in the same vein.
I don't recall if this was shared here, but I think it makes the point.
ETA: The point being, yeah, this is normal stuff that's happened to everybody and isn't what we generally think about as assault but none of that makes it okay either. |
This is not in the same vein with sexual assault. Sexual assault is defined by a criminal code, not a university behavior code. No prosecutor would look at this case. No detective would even investigate it.
Universities are private institutions that may apply any code they like to their students. Those codes are neither precedential nor persuasive as to the point of whether sexual assault involving adults who are not university students occurred. Those codes are not even precedential from one campus to another. The laws which govern sexual assault are written by legislators and administered by judges. They are not written by committees of professors and administered by university staff.
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