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Okay. From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Tim Desher, and this is Heritage Explains.

I was reading a piece posted on the Daily Signal recently that totally caught my attention.

It said in part, President Biden is pursuing a policy that will eliminate due process rights for college students by encouraging half-naked students to race across the commons to be the first to file a sexual harassment charge against their erstwhile paramours.

Erstwhile paramours.

I don't know if I've ever heard that term before.

So, yeah, it's safe to say, I'm intrigued.

But first, let's get the facts.

It all starts in Cincinnati.

According to that Daily Signal piece, a few years ago, two students at the University of Cincinnati got drunk and had a one-night stand.

Now, because they were both drunk, under the college's sexual assault rules, neither one could give consent,

and both were guilty of sexual assault. The next morning, the male student woke up first and terrified that his partner would lodge a sexual assault complaint against him. He rushed to the

Title IX office and filed a complaint against her.

At the time, the school followed Obama administration guidelines

that virtually guaranteed that every accusation led to punishment, no matter what the facts were.

The result, the girl involved, was found guilty of sexual assault and she was suspended.

So what is Title IX?

Well, it's a federal statute that governs sexual assault and harassment investigations on college campuses.

Currently, accusations require a higher standard of proof consisting of things like live hearings and cross-examinations and a chance to speak to counsel.

The goal is to enable a fairer campus justice system that doesn't deny the accused due

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