Minnesota’s football boycott was a blow to fairness in campus sexual assault hearings; A Kentucky professor says singing a Beach Boys song got him in trouble for sexual misconduct allegations; UCLA is the first school to receive 100,000 freshman applications; Education Department denies federal student aid to for-profit N.C. law school;
 
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Minnesota’s football boycott was a blow to fairness in campus sexual assault hearings
After a high-profile football boycott at the University of Minnesota, two lawyers write about their concerns that it could harm students' due process rights in campus sexual assault cases.
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Judge cleared of misconduct in Brock Turner sexual-assault case
Judge Aaron Persky's sentence for Turner, a former Stanford swimmer who sexually assaulted a woman, was widely criticized as too lenient.
 
A Kentucky professor says singing a Beach Boys song got him in trouble for sexual misconduct allegations
But University of Kentucky officials say there's more to the story than what Buck Ryan wrote about the “California Girls” allegations.
 
UCLA is the first school to receive 100,000 freshman applications
School officials pledge that every single application will be read at least twice before UCLA makes admission decisions.
 
Education Department denies federal student aid to for-profit N.C. law school
Charlotte School of Law will no longer receive federal loans and grants because it misled students about their chances of passing the bar and because of its shaky accreditation with the American Bar Association.
 
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