That policy contains provisions preventing accused faculty members from learning the identity of their accusers. Worse, they will not be told even the specific charges against them - which makes mounting a defense daunting to say the least. And they can be charged with harassment if something they say in class offends someone.
Advocates say it makes it easier for a complainant to come forward.
Indeed - and perhaps in some cases to the detriment of justice. In the hothouse atmosphere of university politics, a harassment claim is explosive. Universities often work themselves into a lather over the grave injustice ostensibly done to a Death-Row inmate who had a rough childhood or whose lawyer failed to raise some absurdly obscure point of law.