By Mike Adams
Monday, November 12, 2012
For years, I've been writing about the issue of
censorship on our nation's campuses. But I have given far too little emphasis
to due process violations within the so-called campus judiciary. Today, that
all comes to an end. This will be the beginning of a series of columns
highlighting the worst colleges in America when it comes to due process
violations. I will reveal the name of this week's winner after explaining why
this university is being ushered into the due process Hall of Shame.
In 2005, a professor was brought up on charges of quid
pro quo sexual harassment. Specifically, he was accused of giving a student an
A in exchange for dancing with the professor in a sexually provocative way.
There was only one problem with the charge: it wasn't true.
One set of university documents (the transcripts)
revealed no A was given. The university convicted the professor anyway even
after it was clear that another set of documents (the official harassment
accusations) had been doctored in order to sustain the charge.
In 2009, our present inductees disciplined a fraternity
for waving a fraternity flag that had a portion of the confederate flag
imbedded within it. Incidentally, they waved it at another southern fraternity
that also had a fraternity flag with a portion of a confederate flag imbedded
within it. The all-white fraternity waved it at the other all-white fraternity
at a university intramural game at which no nonwhites were present. So a white
university official charged them with violating the campus hate speech code.
I wrote about the incident and the university soon
realized the campus speech code (as applied) was illegal. So, rather than
dropping the charges, they doctored university documents in order to remove any
evidence that the charges against the fraternity were related to the speech
code. They then inserted new allegations and convicted them under those. The
fraternity was then punished with suspension from intramural sports competition
for "taunting" rather than "hate speech" as originally charged.
In 2011, a professor was accused of sexual harassment and
sought out legal counsel to defend him. During cross-examination by his
attorney, the female accuser claimed not to have made two statements included
in the official charges. In other words, the university helped the accuser by
padding the charges without even bothering to tell her.
The accused was eventually dismissed from the university.
Those tampering with the evidence were never identified and disciplined.
In 2012, police responded to an off campus
alcohol-related incident involving a campus social organization. The police
left shortly after arriving and no charges or arrests were even contemplated by
police. Nonetheless, officers of the student organization were brought in to
the Dean's Office for interrogation. Since they were being asked about
behaviors that were minor violations of the criminal law, they asked to have
legal counsel present. Their request was denied.
Recently, I had a chance to hear the tape recorded
interrogation of the student officers. University officials repeatedly denied
their requests for counsel and asked them to turn off the tape recorder. By the
end of the investigation, the university had prepared three different reports
on the incident. The facts in report #3 bore no resemblance to the facts in
report #1. Each time the university realized its charges were incorrect they
simply constructed a new version of events. Decent people would have dropped
the charges once they realized they were wrong. But this is not the way things
are done at Evidence Tampering U. The charges are still pending and the fate of
the student organization is still hanging in the air.
Again in 2012, a professor appealed a sexual harassment
charge (anyone seeing a pattern here?) and was exonerated on charges of
inappropriately touching a student. Finally, there is some good news at
Evidence Tampering U, right? Wrong. I'm not finished.
During the appeal of the conviction for inappropriate
touching the university inserted a new charge of "inappropriate
communication." The university convicted the professor of that in partial
retaliation for his appeal on the charge of inappropriate touching. No chance
of winning an appeal at Evidence Tampering U. These people are good. They rig
appeals by adding new charges each step of the way. They base their judiciary
rules on Franz Kafka novels.
This is all very important because the way universities
administer justice affects the way students view justice. At Evidence Tampering
U., justice is not a process. It is a result. The ends justify the means. It is
the same mentality that justifies stealing elections. And it is not the way we
educate young people. It is the way that a constitutional republic eventually
turns into a banana republic.
Unfortunately, it is the way things are done at The
University of North Carolina at Wilmington, our inaugural inductees into the
Due Process Hall of Shame. Their liberal administrators make providing a
liberal education damned near impossible. It may seem ironic. But that’s what
the evidence reveals.
In the next installment, we will learn about the role the
Obama Department of Education has played in the erosion of campus due process.
Students aren’t biting the hand that feeds them. They just re-elected the hand
that is slapping them.
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