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Hi, everyone. Welcome to another edition of Ten Blocks. My name is Seth Barron. I'm an associate editor of City Journal. Over the last several years, activists and politicians in the media and around the country have claimed that our nation's colleges

and universities are mired in a culture of rape, which officials have ignored or tried to downplay.

To combat this rape epidemic on campus, in 2011, the Obama administration's education department

sent a dear colleague letter to every school in the country.

They ordered all school officials to adopt a lower preponderance of evidence standard

during disciplinary hearings when judging a student accused of a sexually related offense.

Previously, schools had typically used a much higher, clear, and convincing

evidence standard. Six years later, school administrators are still trying to figure this out.

Colleges are under intense pressure from both activists and bureaucrats to swiftly punish

students accused of rape. Since the order in 2011, there have been numerous lawsuits

against universities by men who say they've been wrongly expelled, and the lawsuits keep coming.

Despite giving lip service to due process rights, administrators know that in today's political

climate, there's little to gain from defending a student accused of rape.

And they also know that just one mishandled case or protest could end their careers.

Joining me today to discuss this issue is Casey Johnson.

Casey Johnson is a professor of history at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center.

He is the co-author with Stuart Taylor of the new book, The Campus Rape Frenzy,

The Attack on Due Process at America's University, Universities.

And he has also written extensively about the Duke Lacrosse case.

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