National fraternity and sorority groups are walking away from their proposal to require colleges and universities to wait until after police had investigated a report of sexual assault before conducting their own investigations.

Newspapers across the country labeled the proposal and the North-American Interfraternity Conference as a “rape lobby” trying to keep sexual assaults from being investigated. That mischaracterization spread far and wide, even though the proposal was actually sensible: Let the professionals do their job, and punish based on actual evidence instead of a parallel kangaroo court system. That kangaroo system, by the way, has led to more than 100 schools being investigated for allegedly failing the accusers and more than 70 schools being sued for improperly punishing the accused.