It’s Groundhog Day at Duke University

Duke University, the place that gave us the infamous “Duke Non-Rape, Non-Kidnapping, Non-Sexual Assault Case” (it was a Duke employee, nurse Tara Levicy, who fabricated a lot of the “rape” hoax in reporting to police, and she is at the center of the lawsuits against Duke), is pursuing a new sexual assault policy on campus that is sure to produce some of the same results we saw in the lacrosse case.  K.C. Johnson, the history professor whose blog Durham-in-Wonderland took apart the case, sighs this is “simply extraordinary.”  He writes:

Three Duke University students were the victims of the highest-profile fraudulent rape claim in modern American history. That fact alone should make the University particularly sensitive to the dangers of false rape allegations, and the need for a firm commitment to due process in handling any allegation of sexual misconduct.

But Duke administrators seem to worry not about violating the due process of rights of their students but instead about running afoul of politically correct campus ideologues. So, starting this semester, the University has adopted a new “sexual misconduct” policy—a policy that even some Duke administrators fear will lead to an increase in false rape claims against Duke students.

That Duke would pursue this policy openly at a time when the university is being sued by a number of families of the unindicted lacrosse players and it paid out allegedly more than $20 million in settlement costs to the three indicted families in 2007, simply is unbelievable.  It seems that Duke wants another rendition of “Groundhog Day” in which the university will be replaying the same sorry story time and again.

It is a mantra with campus feminists that about 25 percent of women at Duke are raped every year, even though only a tiny number are reported.  Obviously, such a disparity puts feminists into despair.  This comes from one Duke official:

“The higher IQ, the more manipulative they are, the more cunning they are… imagine the sex offenders we have here at Duke-cream of the crop,” said Women’s Center Director Ada Gregory.

You just cannot make up this stuff.

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12:57 pm on September 1, 2009