Minnesota football team ends boycott over sexual assault case

[pairatime]

Minnesota's university football team have reversed a pledge to boycott games over the suspension of 10 players over an alleged sexual assault.

The team had threatened not to play until the school authorities gave "satisfactory answers".

The university earlier suspended the 10 players without providing any reasons, following an internal inquiry.

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[blackjedii]

OP: Mine main problem is that in no way should the university be investing, holding a trial, hearing or anything of the like for a criminal matter. Those should never be run by private (or public/private) organization.

it's thanks to Title IX, I think.

[pairatime]

I have a bit of a problem that part of the title then.

[blackjedii]

It's one of those made with the best of intentions but not necessarily thought through 100% kind of deals. On a good day it allows for rly young rly inexperienced people to address sexual assault in a safer way

and on a bad day you get the UVA rape hoax which is basically going to follow that fraternity, its members, and the college in general for decades.

tl;dr from experience the politics of young people on campus are complicated because they are young people whose brains have not finished forming.

[pairatime]

it comes down to no perfect answer which is annoying but also life.

[blackjedii]

Preeetty much. Reading about assault cases and hookups where it's not clear how much is consensual versus being inebriated or just not realizing there are consequences or someone who said they were okay really weren't*** has really made me appreciate dry campuses and even curfew / very strict campus rules wrt partying and night activities.

*** this is not to make light of actual assault that happens, mind. But I can honestly say I have a college acquaintance who has claimed rape after she missed her period bc she has hyper-Conservative parents. Which was a really horrible thing to do bc she said it happened right outside her dorm and that is obviously going to make a whole lot of other students very scared at night. :/

[pairatime]

I think that's the problem with underage (or young) drinking in general. If both parties are drunk was it rape or just stupid? Who raped who if they were both over the limit?

But enforcing a dry campuses has it own set of problems so I see why a lot of schools don't try. We need to do something about the way our culture views alcohol.

[blackjedii]

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