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While I was traveling, I somehow missed the fact that the California Daily Journal had published a column I wrote on Gettysburg College鈥檚 absurd and manifestly unfair sexual misconduct policy. I wrote:

Under the policy, 鈥渃onsent鈥 to sexual interaction is defined as 鈥渢he act of willingly and verbally agreeing (for example, by stating 鈥榶es鈥) to engage in specific sexual conduct. If either person at any point in a sexual encounter does not give continuing and active consent, all sexual contact must cease, even if consent was given earlier.鈥 The policy鈥檚 broad definition of sexual interaction includes not only sex acts but also 鈥渢ouching,鈥 鈥渉ugging鈥 and 鈥渒issing.鈥

This rule effectively makes every student鈥攎an, woman, married or single鈥攇uilty of sexual misconduct. Does anyone get verbal consent to hug their friends and then continue to ask for it the entire hug? Should every time you tap someone on the shoulder be a violation of a university policy? Gettysburg鈥檚 rule does not reflect reality, and so it criminalizes perfectly normal intimate and even merely affectionate interaction.

When the Gettysburg administration was asked how it could defend such a policy, it essentially answered that the policy exists and is enforced, but it has not been enforced against people for merely hugging. So what the university is saying is, 鈥淵es, we do retain the power to find your friends and children guilty of sexual misconduct at any time, but trust us鈥攚e鈥檒l only use it when we think someone has done something really bad.鈥 It鈥檚 lunacy to trust administrators鈥攐r anyone鈥攚ith the power to punish on the promise they won鈥檛 abuse it.

To assume that such an arrangement will work in a fair and just manner is to assume the infallibility (not to mention the complete good faith) of those in charge of administering the system. And if there is one thing I have learned in my work, it鈥檚 that college administrators (or anyone, for that matter) are not infallible. This policy increases the likelihood of finding someone guilty of a serious offense by essentially disregarding the accuracy and fairness of the system.

In response to 果冻传媒app官方, Gettysburg College鈥檚 president claimed its policies 鈥渞eflect good practice.鈥 Declaring normal human interaction a serious offense is not defensible and certainly not 鈥済ood practice.鈥 If Gettysburg cares at all about the fairness of its system, it must reform this wildly overbroad policy.

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