Columnist questions college ‘shadow’ courts

Published September 28, 2015 3:55pm ET



An opinion columnist for an Eastern Illinois newspaper is the latest to question the ability of colleges and universities to adjudicate felony accusations.

Jim Dey, a columnist at the News-Gazette, provided multiple examples of questionable college practices before denouncing the college practice of giving sexual assault accusations more weight than actual evidence. Sadly, the practice of forcing schools to create their own pseudo-court systems comes from the federal government, and it will take more voices like Dey’s to make the Obama administration realize the error.

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