A Catholic college in Boston is standing by its investigation into rape allegations that found the evidence was overwhelmingly in favor of the purported rapist.
You read that right. Whether it keeps that attitude is another question.
Boston.com reports that Emmanuel College student Joanna Vandyke went public with her allegations in a Facebook post this week explaining why she was leaving the school after her first year:
It is clear to me that you value your reputation more than you value your community. The compassion that you spoke so strongly about in the beginning of my time with you was only skin deep. You host events that “empower” women like myself to speak freely of issues like sex and race, but these are just empty words.
The student she accused told a different story: that they had sex three times the night in question and Vandyke “was motioning at his genitals and grabbing them,” thus obviating the need to have a conversation about consent.
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Vandyke freely admits she went to the unnamed male’s room that night after he texted her – they met on Tinder – but says she was already very drunk and unable to consent (she doesn’t say whether she told him that). They smoked a bong together.
The college told Boston.com that it stood by the “not responsible” finding by its Student Conduct Board, saying the facts in the case “overwhelmingly” supported that conclusion. It said Vandyke was leaving out “aspects” of the incident in her Facebook post.
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If Emmanuel is anything like St. Catherine’s University, it will give in to the online outrage spurred by Vandyke’s post.
The Catholic school in St. Paul, Minnesota, with a 97 percent female student body, cut ties to a husband-and-wife event organizer after student protests blasted the couple for writing letters to the judge that found their son a rapist. (The school was accused of “toxic rape culture” for initially reiterating Catholic values of “compassion and mercy” for both rape victim and rapist.)
Emmanuel could also follow the path of another Catholic school in Minnesota, the University of St. Thomas, by retroactively judging that a person who allegedly initiated sex without consent (grabbing genitals) was actually the victim of nonconsensual sex because the male did not continually ask for her consent after the initial genital-grabbing.
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h/t Inside Higher Ed
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