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LONGFORM: Inside the Star Chamber: the unconstitutional farce of Title IX enforcement on college campuses

Background

On the heels of ten University of Minnesota Golden Gophers being suspended from the football team due to allegations of sexual assault, the Gophers have boycotted all football-related activities, potentially including the Holiday Bowl. (The players ended their boycott after, you know, reading the University's student handbook.) Those suspensions occurred subsequent to a school investigation and a police investigation where the actions of four players were investigated but not charged by the Hennepin County (Twin Cities) prosecutor.

The University's Title IX / EOE report is about as vile as you can read: a recruit and a football player entice a woman into a dorm room where the report seems to indicate that there was sexual activity (And, note, in the full report, whether consent was voluntary is very much an open question.