T he decision by the Minnesota team to boycott all football activities until constitutional rights are restored is a significant turn in the ongoing battle over the constitutionality of federal overreach into the private lives of adult university students. The suspension of 10 players accused of sexual misconduct, even after being cleared by a police investigation, makes obvious the major problems with leaving such matters to our higher education system. The most important issue is that students are denied their constitutional rights (due process) when accused. Along with this problem is that the accuser must be believed and advocated for by the university, but as a victim rather than a plaintiff. This one-sided solution to sexual misconduct flies in the face of due process and fairness. An equally important problem is that the university now functions as a pseudo-judicial agency to carry out what can only be called perversely social justice. It is, after all, being forced to operate this way because of the federal bullying of the Obama administration. To add to this troubling situation, men are almost always the targets of false accusations – suggesting that the federal policy is actually meant as a crusade on young males. This federal campaign has come to be seen by many as institutional sexual discrimination against men – not because it claims to help those harmed by sexual assault, but because it denies the accused basic constitutional rights.

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