Most reasonable people thought the lesson from the Rolling Stone gang-rape debacle was to think before making statements or taking actions with potentially detrimental consequences before even a few facts were in. But for the University of Virginia, the message appears to have been: More radical action!

Just one week before the Columbia Journalism Review published its scathing report on the Rolling Stone article about an alleged gang rape at U. Va, the school of Thomas Jefferson published a new sexual assault policy. The new policy is modeled after the California “yes means yes” law that has failed to find backing in other states (so far no other state has come close to passing its own version) except for on college campuses.