Patricia Catapano, an associate general counsel at Columbia and one of the authors of the new policy, told the Boston Globe. Mao Zedong would understand. They've railed against it in the Wall Street Journal, The New Republic and the Village Voice. In a stinging letter, FEE accuses the university of denying due process and fundamental fairness. This, alas, is the kind of poison that could spread to other campuses.
Academics have a weakness for anything that vaguely tastes good.
Instead, they treat students as political prisoners at the mercy of their accusers. Feminism, so we were told, was meant to liberate women to stand up for themselves.