FROM: Bettina Arndt 18 April 2018
Hello Everyone,
Why on earth would universities choose to get involved in the messy business of determining which story to believe in a date rape case involving two students? UTS in Sydney now has a committee of staff and students conducting investigations and recommending punishments for accused students.
The university has caved in to demands from activists and is foolishly blundering into legal territory potentially undermining proper process in what could be serious criminal matters.
For the past eight months I’ve been supporting a PhD student at Adelaide University under investigation by a similar committee after being accused of sexual assault by another student. The committee had no idea what they were doing, failing to even provide the student with full details of the accusation. I fo...