Over on The Corner, Caroline Kitchens of American Enterprise Institute has a post about Families Advocating for Campus Equality (FACE), a new group dedicated to fighting against the horribly one-sided standards the currently prevail when a woman accuses a man of sexual misconduct. The group was founded by the mother of a young man who was falsely accused of sexual misconduct at the University of North Dakota and promptly expelled. The police, however, did not adopt the university’s “verdict first, trial afterwards” approach and based on the evidence, never charged him. After an investigation, the police determined that the accusation had been made falsely, and issued a warrant for the arrest of the woman who made it.

Nevertheless, it took a tenacious campaign to get UND officials to admit that its hasty finding of guilt was “not substantiated” (sounds much better than admitting that the school was wrong) and lift its sanctions. The student, however, decided he wanted nothing more to do with UND.

At one time it was much too easy for men to get away with sexual assault on campus, but the pendulum has swung far in the opposite direction. Good luck to FACE and other groups like FIRE that are working to get us back to reasonable, fair standards.