Cambridge, MA Librarian Laments Excessive Testing of Third Graders

Local school officials suffer from two debilitating syndromes. One is the love of taxpayer funds. The other is obedience to authority and conformism. Only way to curb the education policies which continue to dumb down public school students is to eliminate the US Department of Education. An alternative is to elect and hire officials with spines, which is more difficult than the first solution. Do teacher unions play any role in these abuses?



http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20160119/NEWS/160116363

LETTER: Will this student testing in Cambridge really be harmless?
Posted Jan. 19, 2016 at 8:30 AM
To the editor:
--Susan Moynihan, librarian in Cambridge Public Schools

US Taxpayer Funds at Department of Education Used for Political Purposes

More misguided political abuses of the White House. Indicating that taxpayer funds for education are being used for purposes other than educating students.

[From article]
Outgoing Secretary of Education Arne Duncan capped off his disastrous time as America’s chief education bureaucrat with typical incoherence declaring that his “greatest frustration” upon leaving office is that his boss and basketball pal Barack Obama failed to force national gun-control legislation through Congress. If you wonder why many conservatives believe that the country would be better off without a Department of Education, this is as good an example as any. The American educational system has abundant problems (too deep seated and widespread to address here) but the absence of additional federal gun-control legislation most assuredly is not one of them, nor is it something that Duncan ought to have devoted any thought to whatsoever in his capacity as Secretary of Education.
[. . .]
Obama refuses to identify Islamic terrorism as the chief threat to American security, though it is undeniably the case. Instead, in accord with leftist dogma Obama declared “climate change” to be the America’s principle security concern, a non-sequitur of proportion so stunning that Duncan’s cognitive incoherence pales in comparison.
[. . .]
"Race to the Top", the Obama administration’s signature educational initiative, and Duncan’s primary responsibility, is a remarkable fiasco even by the stupendous record of education program failures that preceded it. The American public is literally voting against it with its feet, children and parents refusing to participate in questionable testing regimes that are supported only among a disconnected and incestuous pairing of government elites and a highly profitable (and useless) consulting industry.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/01/failed_education_secretarys_chief_regret_is_lack_of_gun_control_legislation.html

January 1, 2016
Failed Education Secretary's Chief Regret is Lack of Gun Control Legislation
By Jonathan F. Keiler

Cambridge, MA Teacher Laments Testing Mandates From Feds

Waste of taxpayer funds and misguided priorities extend to several federal bureaucracies, including but not limited to the US Department of Education. The same can be said about state and local bureaucracies. But the school committee has the final authority if they are able to assert their statutory power. All too often local officials yield to state and federal officials due to the desire to receive funds otherwise unavailable or withheld. Spines are seldom found among elected officials who focus on getting re-elected rather than doing what is best for students and taxpayers. Still no mention of the role teacher unions play in making school policy. Award winning teacher John Taylor Gatto, has some ideas in his book, Dumbing Us Down.
http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20151223/NEWS/151228310

LETTER: Where was the discussion on MCAS and PARCC?
Posted Dec. 23, 2015 at 8:42 AM
Updated at 8:43 AM
To the editor:
(Editor's note: This is an open letter to Cambridge School Committee members.)
Kathy Greeley, Erie Street

U.S. Department of Education Violates Federal Law Interfering With School Curriculum. What Obama Appointee Does Not Violate Laws?

[From article]
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), the purity of whose liberalism is wondrous, says education today consists of two worlds. One is "of contractors and consultants, and academics and experts, and plenty of officials at the federal, state and local level." The other is of those who teach, and "the footprint of that first world has become way too big in their lives."
Existing law forbids federal officials from exercising "any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution." Existing practices ignore the law, especially by using $4.35 billion in Race to the Top funds to bribe states to accept the Common Core standards (to which tests and hence texts are "aligned"). Alexander understands the futility of trying to lasso the federal locomotive with a cobweb of words. His solution is a portion of his 1981 proposal: Devolve to states all responsibility for evaluating schools, students and teachers.
[. . .]
Although liberal academia deserves its government-inflicted miseries, Alexander's next project will be the deregulation of higher education. The need for which he demonstrates by unfurling the taped-together 10 pages — more than nine feet — of forms containing more than 100 questions students must answer when applying for federal aid.
[. . .]
In 2010, before Obama's vandalism against the separation of powers had confronted the country with the most lawless presidency since Richard Nixon's, Pence delivered an address in which he said, "The president is not our teacher, our tutor, our guide or ruler." There is a presidential "duty of self-restraint" because "a president who slights the Constitution is like a rider who hates his horse: he will be thrown, and the nation along with him."

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will020715.php3

Fixing America's failing approach to schools
By George Will
Published Feb. 7, 2015

Updated: Asian Groups Sue Harvard University For Discrimination; Case Dismissed

Posted May 16, 2015 5:01 PM ET; Last updated July 8, 2015 8:18 PM




[From article]
The U.S. Department of Education has dismissed a complaint filed against Harvard this spring by 64 Asian-American groups accusing the University of discriminating based on race in its admissions practices.
The complaint, filed in May, accused the University of unfairly denying admission to highly qualified Asian-American students while admitting similar applicants of other races. Complainants called for an in-depth investigation of Harvard’s use of race in its admissions processes.
The complaint was the most recent public challenge to the College’s race-based affirmative action policies, which were repeatedly under fire this past academic year but administrators argue are crucial to supporting campus diversity. The Department of Education decided to dismiss the complaint, according to a statement, because it is similar to an ongoing and separate federal lawsuit filed against Harvard.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/7/8/admissions-complaint-dismissed-education-department/

Education Department Dismisses Admissions Complaint
More than 60 Asian-American groups had accused Harvard of race-based discrimination
By JALIN P. CUNNINGHAM and MELANIE Y. FU

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

July 8, 2015
UPDATED: July 8, 2015, at 10:25 a.m.

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[From article]

Lawyers representing Harvard filed a motion on Monday to delay a lawsuit that alleges that the University’s admissions processes discriminate based on race until the U.S. Supreme Court reviews Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, another affirmative action case, a second time next term.
University spokesperson Jeff Neal wrote in a statement that the case Harvard faces “deals with the same fundamental issues” as the Fisher case, which involves a white woman who argues that the University of Texas’s consideration of race in admissions decisions is in violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Supreme Court first heard the case in 2013 and sent the case back to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the University of Texas’s admissions process. In June, the Supreme Court decided to hear the case for the second time.
The lawsuit against Harvard, filed in November by an anti-affirmative action group, accuses Harvard of “employing racially and ethnically discriminatory policies” against Asian-American applicants.
Both lawsuits threaten race-based affirmative action policies that many universities, including Harvard, argue are important to supporting campus diversity. They are backed by the same person, Edward Blum, the director of the group Project on Fair Representation, which opposes race-based affirmative action.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/7/8/motion-delay-admissions-lawsuit-fisher/

Ahead of Fisher, Harvard Asks To Delay Admissions Lawuit
Supreme Court's decision in Texas affirmative action case could affect Harvard
By JALIN P. CUNNINGHAM and MELANIE Y. FU

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
July 8, 2015

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[From article]
"We want to eliminate discrimination of Asian Americans, and we want procedural justice for all racial groups," Yukong Zhao, one of the chief organizers and a guest columnist with the Orlando Sentinel, told NBC News. "All racial groups should be treated equal."
The complaint, which Zhao said has the support of a number of Chinese, Korean, Indian and Pakistani-American groups, asks that the United States Department of Justice and the United States Department of Education require that Harvard "immediately cease and desist from using racial quota or racial balancing" to admit students and "ensure that Harvard and other ivy league schools will never again discriminate against Asian-Americans or applicants of any other races."
[. . .]
In a written statement, Harvard University General Counsel Robert Iuliano said that Harvard College has a strong track-record of both recruiting and admitting Asian Americans to its school, with the percentage of admitted Asian Americans increasing from 17.6 percent to 21 percent in the last decade.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/coalition-sues-harvard-over-alleged-admission-racial-quotas-n357701

Coalition Sues Harvard Over Alleged Admission Racial Quotas
BY CHRIS FUCHS
First published May 15th 2015, 1:20 pm
NBC News

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http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/5/16/complaint-federal-harvard-admissions/

Groups File Federal Complaint Alleging Discrimination in Harvard Admissions Process
Sixty-four Asian-American groups have called for an investigation into the College's admissions practices
By MEG P. BERNHARD and NOAH J. DELWICHE, 

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
May 15, 2015

Harvard and Tufts Universities Survey Student Sexual Practices For U.S. Department of Education

How long before the therapeutic state feminist bureaucrats at the Department of Education determine what is normal sex, who can do what and how often? If a student violates the national sex code who will punish them? University administrators? Will they be required to wear monitors? Take drugs? Is there no end to the intrusions by government into the lives of Americans, enabled by spineless university administrators, who will do anything to keep the flow of taxpayer funds into college coffers? 

[From article]
this is the first sexual conduct climate survey that Tufts has conducted, and many other universities across the country are conducting similar surveys in light of new suggestions by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR).
She explained that TASCS was developed by survey experts from the Office of Institutional Research and Evaluation in cooperation with the Sexual Misconduct Prevention Task Force, which was created by University President Anthony Monaco in September 2013. The task force consists of both students and faculty. A 2014 progress report released by the task force recommended the implementation of such a survey as one of many tactics to institutionalize sexual misconduct awareness, education and support.

http://tuftsdaily.com/news/2015/04/21/university-releases-sexual-conduct-survey-student-activists-voice-concerns/

University releases sexual conduct survey, student activists voice concerns
By Sophie Lehrenbaum
April 21, 2015

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[From article]
But the school isn’t trying to understand a problem. It’s trying to cover its behind. These surveys have been recommended by the Office of Civil Rights, and schools can point to them if they are ever investigated by the feds.
The university also seems to be casually adopting the “affirmative consent” doctrine that has become popular on campuses around the country.
[. . .]
This survey is so badly written that one wonders whether its results would even pass muster in the kind of peer-reviewed journals in which Harvard professors regularly publish. But then, the goal here isn’t science. It’s politics.

http://nypost.com/2015/04/20/harvards-wacky-campus-sex-survey/

Harvard’s wacky campus-sex survey
By Naomi Schaefer Riley
New York Post
April 20, 2015 | 7:55pm

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[From article]
The survey, which is a Harvard-specific version of an Association of American Universities poll being conducted at 28 schools, was released through individualized links to students at Harvard on April 12 from research company Westat, which is administering the survey. It will be open until May 3.
[. . .]
Leah Rosovsky ’78, University vice president for strategy and programs, said each of Harvard’s schools is using specific ways to promote the survey, such as posters or messages from deans or House masters. She said she hopes student organizations will encourage their members to participate in the survey.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/4/22/sexual-conduct-survey-update/

More Than One-Third of Students Respond to Sexual Conduct Climate Survey
By MARIEL A. KLEIN and THEODORE R. DELWICHE
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
April 21, 2015

US Department of Education Computers Used For Identity Thefts And To View Child Pornography

What I admire are government priorities. This report exposes criminal abuses of the US Department of Education which issued ultimatums to universities so that the federal agency could take jurisdiction over sex crimes on campuses, an abomination against American  jurisprudence. The universities rolled over to have their collective bellies scratched and rubbed so that taxpayer grants would not be jeopardized.  But also no one was watching these government taxpayer funded criminals who abused their power. No police, no Communists, no socialists, no FBI informants, no psychologists at Harvard Medical School, no Harvard University campus police or building superintendents. No Harvard University lawyers and their mistresses, who stir up controversies to harass a 70-year-old man, who survived 45 previous years of criminal abuses by the above mentioned groups. So what is it with these sociopaths who harass me every day disturbing my sleep every one or two hours, and tampering with my telephone, my computer and my USPS mail? Is that what the most prestigious university and the governments in Massachusetts have as their highest priority while criminals run wild using US Department of Education computers and private data? 

[From article]
Government employees have been caught stealing students' personal information to apply for loans, credit cards and set up new cell phone accounts,Daily Mail Online has learned.
Reports on breaches of staff conduct inside the Department of Education shows how workers stole social security numbers from a database while a man was fired for trying to look up President Barack Obama’s student loan records.
Cyber security campaigners warned that the failure to protect sensitive information because of 'bureaucratic incompetence' is just the 'tip of the iceberg'.[. . .]
One woman created a bogus Department of Education account to access the National Student Loan Data System to aid her criminal plot.
While accessing the records, she would extract information from individual accounts.
She swapped around the last four digits of her SSN with those of another during the scheme, and set up the fake identity to apply for credit cards, personal loans and set up a Sprint cell phone account.
An internal investigation within the department found she went into the database 24 times between 2006 and 2009 to retrieve the information.
Just 24 hours after searching through the database on one occasion in 2009, the documents revealed she applied for a personal loan.[. . .]
After pleading guilty, she was sentenced to 18 months in jail with a 17-month suspended sentence. However, according to the documents, the employee only served a month in prison and was then given authorized work by a judge.
[. . .]
Another part of the document trove described the investigation into Joseph Butler, a veteran department employee from Clarkstown, Georgia, who accessed child pornography for years.
More than 70 disturbing images were founded embedded in several Microsoft Word documents that were then saved to his government computer.According to reports he was able to filter his computer activity and get around filtering software preventing government staff from visiting illicit websites.
His Internet browsing history also revealed he had searched for child nudity and pornography.
Butler used his computer to download images onto CD-ROMs, which federal agents found during a search of his home in July 2011. Agents also found graphic stories Butler had written about children.
He is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2951505/Identity-thieves-Department-Education-caught-stealing-students-personal-information-apply-credit-cards-staff-members-FIRED-looking-Barack-Obama-s-student-debts.html

EXCLUSIVE: Fraudsters in Department of Education are caught stealing students' personal information to apply for loans and cellphones - and one worker looked up Barack Obama's student loan records
One employee used students' personal information to apply for a loan
A number of other workers were also involved in the illicit scheme
Created 'bogus' social security details related to another person
Another government employee lost their job for trying to access Obama's student loan files in 2011
A third was probed last year for promoting his own business using government phones and computers at the taxpayers' expense
Cyber security campaigners said this is just the 'tip of the iceberg' and 'bureaucratic incompetence' could put personal information at risk
By WILLS ROBINSON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 11:18 EST, 2 March 2015 | UPDATED: 13:50 EST, 2 March 2015

Harvard Law School Violates Misguided Education Policies, Pleads For Forgiveness

Sex crimes, police training are state matters. US agencies do not have jurisdiction under US constitution. Obama-Holder-de Blasio-Jeh Johnson and their cadre of useful idiots continue campaign to move state powers to the US government contrary to Tenth Amendment. Emeritus Law Professor Alan Dershowitz recognized appropriateness of a lawsuit by the University to challenge misguided government efforts. White House and Attorney General want to move criminal justice matters from state courts to university administrators and education bureaucrats. What could go wrong? Only Emerson College challenged the capital beltway bureaucrats. Emerson denies they have responsibility to protect students from third party crimes. Too many spineless bureaucrats focused on taxpayer dollar tree, running Harvard University.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/12/30/law-school-violation-title-ix/

BREAKING: Law School Found in Violation of Title IX after Years-Long Probe
By THEODORE R. DELWICHE, NOAH J. DELWICHE, and ANDREW M. DUEHREN
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
December 30, 2014

Colorado University Sex Scandal Reveals Problems With US Educators Impersonating Police and Judges

[From article]
CU-Boulder has essentially declared not only that the accused does not enjoy the presumption of innocence, but that defending the accused's innocence amounts to sexual harassment.  How exactly the accused can receive a fair hearing in such an environment remains a mystery.
At this point it should be pointed out that false rape claims are far more prevalent than people think.  Feminists like to claim that only a negligible number of rape allegations are false (2-8%), but the number of allegations recanted, along with the number of allegations not resulting in charges, indicates a much larger portion.
[. . .]
Whatever problems exist within the legal system, this case illustrates why schools have no business adjudicating sexual assault claims.  Had this case been tried in a court of law, we would be able to assess the charges in light of the evidence.  In the present situation, we have no idea what was alleged, what evidence was presented, or the exact nature of the statute. [. . .]  The effort to adjudicate sexual assault allegations in makeshift tribunals will not end happily.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/11/colorado_sex_scandal_continues.html

November 21, 2014
Colorado 'Sex Scandal' Continues
By Ben Cohen

US Dept. Of Education Says Princeton Violates Campus Rules For Crimes

Who has more highly developed informed expertise on criminal justice than college administrators and US Dept. of Education bureaucrats? Specially trained police, prosecutors, and hospital professionals are incompetent compared to the new deciders of criminal liability. Get with the Obama-Holder program. It generates business for underprivileged lawyers.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/11/7/princeton-title-ix-brief/

Princeton Found in Violation of Title IX
By MADELINE R. CONWAY,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
November 6, 2014

MA Courts Work For Child Rapists, Not So Much For College Rape

 
The courts seem to work for child rapists but not for rape on campus. Is there a reason why police, prosecutors and judges do not take college student rape allegations seriously? Is that the reason why the U.S. Department of Education got into the criminal justice business? Their expertise at improving the schools will be available for criminal justice now?

[From article]
A 34-year-old Pittsfield man described in federal court as a “serial child abuser of the worst sort” after videotaping his repeated rape of three girls — aged 3, 8 and 13 — was sentenced to 50 years in prison yesterday.
“I have been a judge longer than you have been alive. But for cold-blooded murder, I have never seen a case that descends to the depths of depravity that this case demonstrates,” Judge William Young said in U.S. District Court in Springfield, according to a statement released by federal prosecutors. “You are a serial child abuser of the worst sort.”
Jason Gendron — a father of three boys who worked in heating ventilation and air conditioning — had earlier pleaded guilty to 16 counts of sexual exploitation of minors by producing child pornography, and one count of possession of child pornography.
Gendron is also facing sentencing today in Berkshire Superior Court for state charges related to the 15 months of abuse he inflicted on the girls. In that court, he pleaded guilty Oct. 16 to six counts of rape and abuse of a child, and four counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2014/10/child_rapist_gets_50_years_behind_bars

Child rapist gets 50 years behind bars
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
By: O’Ryan Johnson
Boston Herald

Misguided U.S. Department Of Education Mandates Increasing Controls Over Human Beings, Sex, and Potential Thought Crimes

Did the DOE forget mandating collection of thought crimes, even if the thoughts were fleeting? The DOE uses taxpayer money to force local school boards to comply with their misguided mandates. Now it has gone beyond education into criminal justice. Will the ATF issue guidelines for teaching math and science in colleges?




[From article]
The amendments require universities that receive federal funding, including Harvard, to report statistics not only on crimes they investigated and prosecuted but also for crimes determined as unfounded, which universities were not previously required to report.
In addition, the changes also give more attention to stalking and dating violence by requiring reports of stalking to include information about the location where the stalking first began.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/10/22/clery-act-amendment-education/

U.S. Department of Education Amends Clery Act
By MARIEL A. KLEIN 

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
October 21, 2014

US Dept. Of Education Legislates Criminal Justice Regulations, Congress Not Doing Its Job?

Did the DOE forget mandating collection of thought crimes, even if the thoughts were fleeting? The DOE uses taxpayer money to force local school boards to comply with their misguided mandates. Now it has gone beyond education into criminal justice. Will the ATF issue guidelines for teaching math and science in colleges?

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/10/22/clery-act-amendment-education/

U.S. Department of Education Amends Clery Act
By MARIEL A. KLEIN 

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
October 21, 2014

Harvard University Law School Has 28 Professors With Spines

It took them long enough to speak out. There are 28 human faculty members with spines at Harvard University after all. Good for them. But they act after mighty Emerson College responded to a lawsuit saying, "Emerson College claims there is no legal duty for a school to protect others from the criminal or wrongful acts of a third person." The response from Emerson College to federal government bullies, comes after a lawsuit that was filed by a rape victim last month. But Harvard University and all other colleges accept this obligation created by the U.S. Department of Education?

http://www.wcvb.com/news/emerson-college-no-legal-duty-to-prevent-student-from-rape/28399158

Emerson College: No legal duty to prevent student from rape
Rape victim filed lawsuit last month
UPDATED 11:57 PM EDT Oct 03, 2014

[From article]
The authors went on to criticize the University at length for what they said amounted to bowing to the dicta of federal authorities instead of conceiving its own policy.
“Harvard apparently decided to simply defer to the demands of certain federal administrative officials, rather than exercise independent judgment about the kind of sexual harassment policy that would be consistent with law and with the needs of our students and the larger University community,” they wrote.
[. . .]
accusing central administrators of having “undermined and effectively destroyed the individual Schools’ traditional authority to decide discipline for their own students.”

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/10/15/law-profs-criticize-new-policy/

Law School Profs Condemn New Sexual Harassment Policy
By MATTHEW Q. CLARIDA
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
October 15, 2014

Harvard University Student Newspaper Censors Criticism of New Rape Standards

Questioning the legality of the US government setting rules for students having sex is spam? Comment listing two articles written by critics of this irrational illegal policy was deleted by the editors immediately after posting. New semester new censors?

The previous day I posted links to this article (and another).

http://time.com/3444749/camille-paglia-the-modern-campus-cannot-comprehend-evil/

Camille Paglia: The Modern Campus Cannot Comprehend Evil
Camille Paglia

9:40 AM

September 29, 2014

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/10/2/federal-investigators-campus-titleix/

Investigation Underway, Civil Rights Officers Visit Campus
By MADELINE R. CONWAY and STEVEN S. LEE,

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
October 1, 2014

Boycott Israel Academics Jeopardize US Taxpayer Grants

[From article]
Six directors of taxpayer-supported Middle East Studies centers at American universities have signed a public letter pledging "not to collaborate on projects and events involving Israeli academic institutions." However, as Winfield Meyers of Campus Watch reports:
As heads of U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Centers, the directors are administrators of bodies required by the Higher Education Opportunity Act to give "assurances" that they will "maintain linkages with overseas institutions of higher education and other organizations that may contribute to the teaching and research of the Center."
[. . .]
These academics should be under close scrutiny, and their centers’ funding cut off, if they violate the terms of their grants by acting on their personal animus agaist Israel.

http://americanthinker.com/blog/2014/09/middle_east_studies_directors_put_on_the_spot_over_academic_boycott_of_israel_pledge.html

September 5, 2014
Middle East Studies directors put on the spot over academic boycott of Israel pledge
By Thomas Lifson

Obama's Title IX Sex Assault Standards Bring Lawsuits From Male Students, Lawyers Rejoice

[From article]
Parisi is one of at least 30 men who are striking back against campus rules on sexual assault that deny them due process by assuming their guilt. Their ranks have quadrupled since 2011.
This reversal of one of the bedrock principles of the American justice system stems from a bizarre interpretation of the Title IX provision in the Education Amendments of 1972 designed to protect women from discrimination.
The interpretation has been forced on universities by the Obama administration, and it thrives on many American college campuses, thanks to politically correct cultures that take women's words at face value while assuming the worst about men.
[. . .]
His lawyers, Solomon Rubin, Andrew Miltenberg and Kimberly Lau — who are representing at least three of the 30 men who have filed lawsuits — say they get multiple phone calls every week from college students whose due process rights were violated after being accused of sexual assault on campus. Unlike Parisi, however, most are found guilty by their universities.
[. . .]
Parisi said in his lawsuit that he awoke at about 10 a.m. to find the woman, an acquaintance with whom he occasionally smoked cigarettes, sitting on his dorm-room desk.
She told him she had just broken up with her boyfriend. “She was completely calm," Parisi told the Examiner. He then asked if she wanted to join him in his bed.
She said "yes."
[. . .]


Lawyers Celebrating News Of New Lawsuits

A few days after filing the university complaint against Parisi, the woman's boyfriend called Madison police to report that Parisi had raped her, according to Parisi's complaint.
Even though the university’s policy is to conclude investigations into sexual assault claims “within 15 working days of the date of the complaint,” because the police had been called, the university suspended its investigation.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/backlash-college-men-challenge-guilty-until-proven-innocent-standard-for-sex-assault-cases/article/2551863

Backlash: College men challenge 'guilty until proven innocent' standard for sex assault cases
BY ASHE SCHOW
AUGUST 11, 2014 | 6:00 AM

Northwestern U. Professor Sues For Deprivation of Rights Under Title IX

http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5701

Prof. sues Northwestern officials for gender discrimination over their handling of sex assault allegations

Katherine Timpf, Reporter
@kctimpf
on Jun 20, 2014 at 10:52 AM EDT
The professor is seeking damages for harm to his reputation, 'emotional distress, humiliation, embarrassment and future lost income and benefits.'
Two different graduate students have accused Philosophy Professor of sexual offenses in recent years.
Northwestern hired independent investigator who found one of the claims unsubstantiated.

Solution to Harvard University's Compliance With Title IX Sex Offenses

Posted May 15, 2014 12:33 AM ET; Last updated May 23, 2014 2:50 AM ET 

Four days after the 7 1/2 hour attack it was reported to me that the local police employees who joined Harvard University campus police on Saturday May 17, 2014 were from Brookline, MA. They did not have jurisdiction in Cambridge but what the hell. As long as Harvard University campus police gave them permission to harass me on property owned and operated by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, then it must be legal. I remember two Cambridge police detectives refused to investigate criminal harassment on Harvard University property, telling me they would not go onto Harvard University property, unless I provided them with evidence. Huh? I thought that was the job of police? One attorney at the U.S. attorney's office told me that they only prosecute cases that the FBI provides them with evidence. Huh? No wonder it took 30 years for them to prosecute the Bulger crime family. The FBI which was protecting that group did not provide the U.S. Attorney with evidence. See.

So on Monday May 19, 2014 that thoughtful, darling, young, dedicated, diligent, eager lesbian graduate student in Psychology at Harvard University Medical School, resumed her role as primary harasser, disturbing my sleep and tampering with my computer causing it to crash. Isn't that what psychologists are for? To harass to provoke vulnerable elder citizens to try to have them arrested and put into a hospital? Isn't that what Harvard University Medical School trains medical professionals to do?

Updated May 19, 2014 8:03 PM ET

The day after posting this story, on Friday evening May 16, 2014, I attended a reception at a gallery in Boston. I spoke with a man from the North End. He was likely a police employee who mentioned a man who asked a member of a crime family to do a favor for him. Was he suggesting that I do the same so the police could arrest me for trying to hire a hit man? It is a likely scenario. How many misguided abused humans go for the bait? He also told me that he had trouble with two policemen in Cambridge, and his experiences with the police review board. I told him how that works, or doesn't. 

On Saturday May 17, 2014 beginning at about 6:00 AM HUPD police employees and other police agency employees, at least three, were in an adjacent apartment. They conducted a non stop brutal harassment campaign keeping me awake, trying to provoke violence for 7 1/2 hours until about 1:30 PM.

That evening I attended a concert at a nearby church. When I went to sleep at about 1:00 AM Sunday May 18, 2014 I was awakened at 2:00 AM and kept awake until about 6:00 AM. It was more intense electronic assaults from a male, (Chinese Communist police employee?) in the next apartment, disturbing my sleep every two hours until about 4:00 PM.

As they harass me for unknown reasons one of the criminal officials (police employees) usually makes threats, e.g., "They will kill you." or "They are going to kill them." The killers and sometimes the victims remain unidentified. During this latest severe attack one of the moralist sociopaths said to me, "You were guilty." As usual he did not say of what I was guilty. Just guilty.

That is the pattern for 43 years of criminal abuses by first the CIA, then the FBI, then Communists, then local police (scores of local police departments), and then associates of nine crime families. They each punished me for being "guilty." But they never told me what I was guilty of. Under the rudimentary taxpayer funded system of criminal justice conducted in state and U.S courts across the nation, if a person is charged with a crime, he must be given notice. That is usually done formally at an arraignment. I was never arraigned for any crime for which I was tried and found guilty. Next an accused is allowed to defend himself with the guarantee of Due Process. That also was never extended to me. After a guilty finding if that is what the trier of facts decides, the accused is guaranteed a right to appeal the finding. But again, I was never found guilty in a court of law or allowed an appeal. I was never arrested. But the sociopaths have been punishing me, and slandering me, for 43 years for whatever it is they believe, "You were guilty." as they say.

Previously a woman I met in about 1995 also said to me, "You were guilty." She also did not explain what the accusation was. Nor did she explain how she knew I was guilty, or what offense was in her mind. How did she know what I was allegedly guilty of, if I did not know her until 1995 about 20 years after any alleged crime? What was it that permitted nine crime families and many governmental agencies to punish me hundreds of times for a crime for which I was never given notice, never arrested, never tried in a court of law? I was never arrested for any of the crimes they punished me for multiple times. So even if I was guilty of a crime what gave them all the right to punish me over and over again and again? No one explains any of those questions.

Also "revealed" to me by this latest group of Harvard University protected criminals, was "They killed those girls." Again with this admonition, if that is what it is, these criminal sociopaths, police employees, do not identify who "they" is, or who the "girls" are. They do not say how they were killed, or when or where. So what does "They killed those girls." have to do with me? It appears that over the past 43 years whatever crime occurred while I was alive within 1,000 miles, the crime became a reason for me to be punished. It is a likely explanation. How do they expect me to react to that? Do they refer to the Nigerian girls kidnapped by Muslim terrorists? Am I to blame for that too? One Harvard University campus police employee said to me, "You're a terrorist." It shows how distorted the views of police are and what their priorities are. 

Whatever it is that these psychotic criminal police employees believe, and they punished me for hundreds of times, perhaps maybe, just maybe 43 years of being punished repeatedly for crime(s), I was never arrested for, maybe I paid enough of my life for the fantasies in the minds of paranoid police employees and their obedient useful idiots?

But no. After 43 years the bottom feeders of the Harvard University campus police punish me again. Don't you just love them? In 2014, they appear to try to repeat the police frame-up of 1990. Then it was the Somerville police harassing me. The same pattern of sleep disturbances every one or two hours, as 24 years later. After I complained to the Cambridge and Somerville police in 1990, the Cambridge police arrested me. I learned later it was the California Syndicate who hired those two police departments to conduct the frame-up. They paid seven lawyers to not put on a defense. These charming lawyers were paid twice. First by taxpayers then by the crime family to ensure I did not get a hearing. Five state court judges participated. One threatened to put me in a hospital if I testified about what happened to me. Another refused to appoint any more lawyers and ordered me to appear and to represent myself. There are more similarly outrageous behavior by the courts, but you get the idea.

In 2014 it was the Harvard University campus police who tried to repeat the same events. But I no longer complain to the police about police misconduct. They do not investigate police criminals. I complain to four agencies. The Massachusetts Attorney General's Disability Rights Project; the Massachusetts Office on Disabilities; and the Middlesex District Attorney's disability and elder abuse unit. The police, the FBI and politicians say, "He's crazy." in order to prevent any honest police agency from listening to what I say. That may be a fantasy to think there are honest police agencies, but for argument sake. The legal definition of disability in state and U.S. statutes has three parts. It explains how I am entitled to legal protections for persons with a legal disability. 

In 1973 government psychiatrists drugged me for 80 consecutive days contrary to law. They thought I was a spy. I was not under the care of any psychiatrist and there was no court order to allow them to drug me.  Then the FBI used me, in an impaired (disabled) state, to fight organized crime for 15 years and did not pay me any money. Beginning about 1988 the FBI abandoned me and coordinated 22 years of allowing crime families to retaliate which continues today. The legal definition of disability is:

42 U.S. Code § 12102 - Definition of disability

As used in this chapter:

(1) Disability

The term “disability” means, with respect to an individual—

(A) a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities of such individual;

(B) a record of such an impairment; or

(C) being regarded as having such an impairment (as described in paragraph (3)).

(2) Major life activities

(A) In general

For purposes of paragraph (1), major life activities include, but are not limited to, caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, seeing, hearing, eating, sleeping, walking, standing, lifting, bending, speaking, breathing, learning, reading, concentrating, thinking, communicating, and working.

(B) Major bodily functions

For purposes of paragraph (1), a major life activity also includes the operation of a major bodily function, including but not limited to, functions of the immune system, normal cell growth, digestive, bowel, bladder, neurological, brain, respiratory, circulatory, endocrine, and reproductive functions.

(3) Regarded as having such an impairment

For purposes of paragraph (1)(C):

(A) An individual meets the requirement of “being regarded as having such an impairment” if the individual establishes that he or she has been subjected to an action prohibited under this chapter because of an actual or perceived physical or mental impairment whether or not the impairment limits or is perceived to limit a major life activity.

(B) Paragraph (1)(C) shall not apply to impairments that are transitory and minor. A transitory impairment is an impairment with an actual or expected duration of 6 months or less.

I also leave a complaint with the ACLU of Massachusetts. None of them ever act to curb the abuses. They usually say to me, "There's nothing we can do." It is why it has gone on for 43 years in three states. During one period I used to call to other state's agencies seeking help from their disability protection agencies. They would ask me "If you live in Massachusetts why do you call here?" I explained "Because they will not help me in Massachusetts." 

I used to call about 12 other taxpayer funded agencies but they also refused to act. So I decided to focus on these four to save myself time. It is mainly to establish a record so the police cannot say, "Why didn't you complain?" That is not to say that government criminals do not erase their inconvenient records. One Cambridge City department employee told me there are no records of me though I made a purchase previously. In about 1985 the FBI denied they had any records about me. In 1983 when I was litigating a landlord tenant case in the New Jersey courts, the Executive Director of the N.J. ACLU said to me, "You don't need an attorney. You need a law firm." That was about 30 years ago. And the beat goes on.

Of course it may be that Prof. Hyman has connections to federal police agencies. He does have a history of obtaining U.S. taxpayer grants from federal agencies for Harvard University and for his exciting psychiatric research projects. So maybe it is the den of high ethical standards, the Boston FBI office which spawned the 30-year rein of terror by the Bulger crime family. Recall that a special investigator from the U.S. Department of Justice, John Durham, found one FBI agent was involved in 30 years of corruption. Only one special agent was able to corrupt the entire office and state and local police agencies. Only one. That was John Connolly, who was convicted of homicide and is in a Florida state prison. Mr. John Durham returned to Washington DC after his investigation. Did he report that the Boston FBI office was now clean ever since Mr. Bulger went on the lam? Or when he was captured? It only took the Boston FBI 16 years to find him and it was not even an American citizen who gave the tip that led to the Bulger capture in Santa Monica, CA.

So was the latest round of intimidation of free expression, constitutionally protected speech criticizing Prof. Hyman's proposed Title IX compliance, retaliation from the Boston FBI? Have they adopted the same fantasies of the crime families to conduct punishment for another round of character assassination? Was the Saturday of 7 1/2 hours of intense criminal abuse by the FBI on behalf of Prof. Hyman?

It is not clear that is true. I have no evidence. But it is certainly within the realm of how the FBI operates in Massachusetts. They did allow, or facilitate, up to 60 homicides admitted or prosecuted by the Bulger crime family over 30 years. The Boston FBI also arranged for a frame-up of four white men for a murder the FBI knew they did not commit. The men were sentenced to death. After the Massachusetts legislature repealed the death penalty two of the men died in prison, two were released after 30 years. A U.S. Court awarded the men and their families $101 million plus attorneys fees of taxpayer money. No FBI agents suffered penalties for their criminal abuses of power.

So the Boston FBI has a long history of criminal abuses of innocent civilians, they do not like, they do not trust and who they want to kill or prosecute. A history of misadventures they believe they can do without being held accountable. The Boston office of the FBI was used for ethnic cleansing, to eliminate the Italian American crime family to leave the field open for the Irish American crime family. Do you hear that loud silence from the academic community and the lawyers of the state? Six law schools are in and next to Boston plus several schools of government.

That is an alternative explanation for the latest round of abuses trying to provoke violence. How many other cases of extreme violence were the result of FBI or police provocations? The police will never admit when they make a mistake. The FBI not only will never admit their errors, but they also kill to cover up their mistakes. But also none of the politicians, or the police agencies are willing or able to repay civilians, make them whole,  after officials destroy their lives. It happened to many civilians, men and women, whose lives were destroyed by abusive criminals in the FBI and police agencies. And it happens over and over again and again. Do you hear the silence from the main stream networks, and journalists about any of this until many years after it happens? I read often about a man getting out of prison after 10, 20 or more years for a wrongful conviction. Why did it take so long?

In my case there is no court to appeal to for a new trial or to vacate the wrongful sentence. What was the sentence? And what was the crime? 43 years of abuse cannot be undone. No one can compensate me for that. What good is money now? I am 70 years old. My hopes, my dreams, my career and reputation were bashed and beaten into nothingness. These people "know" I was guilty. How do they know, if I did not even know what I was accused of when this began in 1973, or before. How did they know if I didn't know what it was? Being found guilty of what, and what was the sentence? What system of criminal justice have I been living under for 43 years?

U.S. government officials announced the United States will be attacked and the likelihood is increasing.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/lot-terror-attacks-coming-nsa-chief-article-1.1797130

‘A lot more terror attacks coming our way:’ former NSA chief
Gen. Keith Alexander, the former head of the spy agency, warned in an interview with The New Yorker of a ‘growing’ number of potential attacks on the U.S.
BY ADAM EDELMAN

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Sunday, May 18, 2014, 5:39 PM

So what hope is there that this country will be able to cope with another attack if the law enforcement apparatus is focused on beating vulnerable innocent civilians? I am legally a disabled, elder, citizen. Illegal aliens get better treatment.

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/howie_carr/2014/05/carr_ruling_will_tell_us_plenty

Carr: Ruling will tell us plenty
Sunday, May 18, 2014
By: Howie Carr
Boston Herald

What is the purpose of taxpayer funded protection agencies if they do not curb egregious criminal abuses of civilians by government officials? Have local, state and federal agencies whose missions are to protect vulnerable persons become like politicians? Do they all serve themselves not wanting to offend criminal abusers and hoping they will be invited to dinners with celebrities and given awards?

Do you ever hear Prof. Hyman discussing abuses of the psychiatric industry when peaceful humans are abused by police, the FBI or criminal psychiatrists? I never did. All he seems to care about, besides his own career, is the need for more taxpayer funds for psychiatric treatment and research. A real freedom fighter, Prof. Hyman. Ahem!

So much for free speech and the First Amendment in Cambridge, at Harvard University and in the United States of America.



[From article]
Hyman also requested funds for a survey on sexual assault to be administered by the task force and proposed the creation of a central website hosting resources for victims of sexual assault. [his] letter amounted to a call for the University to dedicate additional resources for prevention. [. . .] The goal is not to issue a document that makes us all feel good; the goal is to make a difference.”

Perhaps Prof. Hyman can prescribe weekly psychiatric drug injections for incoming students, so they will not commit sexual assaults. Students will be required to accept the drugs as part of matriculation. The university Select Criminal Justice Commission can move on to other offenses. Another drug will eliminate racism, sexism and homophobia too. Drugs will "make a difference" and maybe make everyone "feel good" too. Essential (only) behavior conditioning making students into homosexuals and lesbians would eliminate opposite sex offenses. A cheaper project of assigning a Securitas guard for each student 24/7 would reduce most offenses. Other state criminal offenses could be addressed by Title IX standards as well. State courts could be downsized if not eliminated. That would free up police to concentrate on uppity 70-year-old white men who do not know their place.



http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/5/14/assault-task-force-recommendations/?page=1



Faust Accepts Task Force's Call for Increased Sexual Assault Resources, Prevention Education
University President Says She Will Act Immediately on Four-Point Recommendations
By MATTHEW Q. CLARIDA, 

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
May 14, 2014

Feds Want Jurisdiction Over Sex Assaults On Campus

Posted April 29, 2014 8:31 PM ET; Last Updated April 30, 2014 9:15 PM ET

From article]
"the campus policy stated that intoxication creates an inability to consent." That makes it easy to establish a violation--except that in many cases the accuser has violated the letter of the policy as much as the accused has. "If both are intoxicated, they both did the same thing to each other," Sokolow writes. "Why should only the male be charged if both students behave in ways defined as prohibited by the policy?"

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304393704579529714129190136

The Other Side of Title IX
A warning to higher-education administrators.
By JAMES TARANTO
April 28, 2014

Wal Street Journal

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From sexual violence to data collection. Is sexual assault a federal crime? Are universities law enforcement agencies? "Karvonides emphasized that educators need to understand the anti-discriminatory act[.]" Harvard University administrators do not know where their property line ends, or the jurisdiction of their campus police. Expect them to comprehend the concept of discrimination? 2012 HGSE grad Argetsinger, hotline counselor for a rape crisis center, said "People who are survivors are really aware that peers who have spoken out in the past have received no justice[.]” Is that unique to rape victims? What does "justice" mean? Do U.S. DOE bureaucrats have jurisdiction over crimes prosecuted in state courts. U.S. DOE gives taxpayer funds to implement policy desires of lobbyists. Noam Chomsky: "The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." Why no scrutiny of state courts in Massachusetts? Are too many judges and lawyers HLS grads? 

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/4/30/karvonides-sexual-violence-panel/

At Ed School, University Title IX Coordinator, Panelists Discuss Sexual Violence Awareness
By NOAH J. DELWICHE

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
April 30, 2014

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Is this the same Civil Rights Office which refuses to enforce civil rights laws in a race neutral manner? See J. Christian Adams' book, Injustice; and John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky's book, Who's Counting? Will this investigation enforce the Title IX provisions favoring women students?

Is sexual assault a federal crime? If state, local police and campus police are unable to protect students from sexual assaults, is the FBI, who allowed crime boss, James Bulger to administer capital punishment without due process in Massachusetts to about 60 victims, better equipped? These are Department of Education bureaucrats who want jurisdiction over campus sexual assault. Is this an example of the Idiocracy taking control of the country?

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/4/29/civil-rights-harvard-sexual-assault-investigation/

Civil Rights Office Opens Investigation of College’s Handling of Sexual Assault Cases
By MADELINE R. CONWAY and STEVEN S. LEE

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
April 29, 2014

* * *

[From article]
the Justice Department will help develop training programs in trauma care for school officers and assess different models for schools to use to adjudicate such cases, since some sexual assault survivors are wary of a legal process that can open them up to potentially painful or embarrassing questions by students or staff.
[. . .]
A new website, notalone.gov, will post enforcement actions and offer information to victims about how to seek local help and information about filing a complaint,
[. . .]
including ideas a school could consider when defining what is or isn’t sexual consent.
[. . .]
a 90-day review that included dozens of in-person and online meetings with victims, advocates and higher education representatives. It was made up of Obama’s cabinet members, including Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Attorney General Eric Holder.
[. . .]
many campuses have been working to make improvements, but the issue is complex and some college administrators have sought answers from the federal government about how to interpret federal law.
[. . .]
A key tool the government has against campus sexual assault is Title IX, which prohibits gender discrimination at schools that receive federal funds. The 1972 law is better known for guaranteeing girls equal access to sports, but it also regulates institutions’ handling of sexual violence and is increasingly being used by victims who say their school failed to protect them. Fifty-one campuses currently have such an ongoing investigation involving sexual violence, the Education Department said.
[. . .]
Another law that campus sexual assault cases fall under is the Clery Act, which requires colleges and universities to annually report crime statistics on or near their campuses, to develop prevention policies and ensure victims their basic rights.

Do men accused of sexual assault enjoy equal protection of the laws? Why then are women getting the primary attention of the U.S. government and the college administrations? Why does the federal government deliberate the meaning of sex assault laws. Is rape a federal crime? More of the confusion of laws and jurisdiction by this racist administration which works hard to destroy the United States as a functioning society. American jurisprudence requires mens rea for a person to be convicted of a crime. Under the standards proposed by the Department of Education under Title IX being imposed on colleges there is no mens rea requirement. Only the accusation. Has the Idiocracy taken over the federal government?

http://nypost.com/2014/04/29/white-house-releases-guidelines-to-stop-sexual-assaults-at-colleges/

White House releases guidelines to stop sexual assaults at colleges
By Associated Press
April 29, 2014 | 6:00am

New York Post