Stalin’s show trials appear to be the favored model for university inquisitions to punish white males for daring to engage in sex with female students. After all, guilt or innocence is not the objective. The goal is to instruct others to play by Party rules or risk the gulag or execution.

This modus operandi was demonstrated in the lacrosse player sex scandal at Duke in 2006, and today in the case of the Duke senior from Australia, expelled three weeks before final exams for “non-consensual” sex with a freshman female. Similar to Duke president Richard Brodhead’s abandonment of the Lacrosse players, the accused Aussie is left swinging in the wind, his life ruined by innuendo.

Female accusers are quite aware that once they point the finger, the male is presumed guilty of whatever she chooses to say. In this case, an 18-year-old freshman female hangs around a bar until closing, returns to a fraternity house with a male she just met, and afterwards claims the sexual act they both committed was forced. Although the Durham police ruled that use of force was “not applicable,” Duke’s Office of Student Conduct naturally believed the female and kicked the male off campus, withheld his diploma, and endangered the job waiting for him on Wall Street. Quite disingenuously, the expulsion punishment was not published in the school’s Community Standard In Practice, an oversight the Student Conduct quango glossed over by expelling him anyway and ruling to prevent him from completing his degree

The accused Antipodean was treated like a victim of the Soviet purges, with the exception he was not tortured and forced to sign a fake confession. But he is indeed a victim of a kangaroo court designed to enforce gender warfare by feminists and radical faculty. Fortunately, the legal system outside Duke’s Ivy Tower was brought to bear to force Duke to allow the senior to take his exams while the case is adjudicated.

But he had to hire a legal team and fight to protect his reputation from a female whose story was not believed by the police. It’s double jeopardy of a different stripe to subject a student to a parallel justice system. And it’s going on at colleges and universities across the nation, enabled by faculty and administrators at war with men.