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13.Celeste Katz, “Sen. Kirstin Gillibrand, colleagues, push for more federal funding to investigate college sexual assaults,” New York Daily News, April 7, 2014 http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/sen-kirsten-gillibrand-colleagues-push-federal-funding-investigate-college-sexual-assaults-blog-entry-1.1748384.
14.Christopher P. Krebs, Ph.D., Christine H. Lindquist, Ph.D., Tara D. Warner, M.A., Bonnie S. Fisher, Ph.D., Sandra L. Martin, Ph.D., “The Campus Sexual Assault (CSA) Study,” National Institute of Justice, December 2007, https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/221153.pdf.
15.Ibid.
16.Glenn Kessler, “One in five women in college sexually assaulted: an update on this statistic,” Washington Post, December 17, 2014, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2014/12/17/one-in-five-women-in-college-sexually-assaulted-an-update/; Caroline Kitchens, “The Rape ‘Epidemic’ Doesn’t Actually Exist,” U.S. News & World Report, October 24, 2013, http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2013/10/24/statistics-dont-back-up-claims-about-rape-culture.
17.Jake New, “One in Five?,” Inside Higher Ed, December 15, 2014, https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/12/15/critics-advocates-doubt-oft-cited-campus-sexual-assault-statistic.
18.Emily Yoffe, “The College Rape Overcorrection,” Slate, December 7, 2014, http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/12/college_rape_campus_sexual_assault_is_a_serious_problem_but_the_efforts.html.
19.Dana Goldstein, “The Dueling Data on Campus Rape,” The Marshall Project, December 11, 2014, https://www.themarshallproject.org/2014/12/11/the-dueling-data-on-campus-rape.
20.George F. Will, “George Will: Colleges become the victims of progressivism,” Washington Post, June 6, 2014, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-college-become-the-victims-of-progressivism/2014/06/06/e90e73b4-eb50-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html; Hannah Groch-Begley, “A Guide to George Will’s Decades of Attacks On Sexual Assault Victims And ‘Rape Crisis Feminists,’” Media Matters for America, October 15, 2014, http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/10/15/a-guide-to-george-wills-decades-of-attacks-on-s/201166.
21.Joe Strupp, “EXCLUSIVE: NOW President Calls On Washington Post to Drop George Will Over Rape Column,” Media Matters for America, June 10, 2014, http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/10/exclusive-now-president-calls-for-george-wills/199666.
22.“Tell The Washington Post: Fire George Will,” We Are UltraViolet, http://act.weareultraviolet.org/cms/sign/Fire_George_Will/.
23.Ibid.
24.“Letter to George Will from Senators,” Washington Post, June 12, 2014, http://www.washingtonpost.com/r/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2014/06/13/Editorial-Opinion/Graphics/Letter-to-George-Will-from-Senators.pdf.
25.“George Will responds to senators on his sexual assault column,” Washington Post, June 13, 2014, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/06/13/george-will-responds-to-senators-on-his-sexual-assault-column/.
26.Emily Yoffe, “The College Rape Overcorrection.”
27.Bonnie S. Fisher, Francis T. Cullen, Michael G. Turner, “The Sexual Victimization of College Women,” National Institute of Justice, December 2000, https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/182369.pdf.
28.Emily Yoffe, “The College Rape Overcorrection.”
29.Fisher, Cullen, and Turner, “The Sexual Victimization of College Women.”
30.@MDRSWRJ, tweet, December 8, 2014, https://twitter.com/MDRSWRJ/status/541989076162052097.
31.Alexandra Brodsky, “7 Things You Should Know About Evidence in Campus Rape Proceedings,” Feministing, December 8, 2014, http://feministing.com/2014/12/08/7-things-you-should-know-about-evidence-in-campus-rape-proceedings/.
32.Alexandra Brodsky, tweet, December 8, 2014, https://twitter.com/azbrodsky/status/541995401201848321.
33.Christopher P. Krebs, Ph.D., Christine H. Lindquist, Ph.D., Tara D. Warner, M.A., Bonnie S. Fisher, Ph.D., Sandra L. Martin, Ph.D., “College Women’s Experiences with Physically Forced, Alcohol- or Other Drug-Enabled, and Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault Before and Since Entering College,” Journal of American College Health, August 7, 2010, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3200/JACH.57.6.639-649#.VLGQx2TF_oF.
34.“The Left’s Top 25 Journalists,” Daily Beast, http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2010/02/16/the-left-s-top-25-journalists.html.
35.Jessica Valenti, tweet, October 16, 2013, https://twitter.com/JessicaValenti/status/390501900484747264.
36.Kim LaCapria, “Slate’s Prudie, Emily Yoffe, Thinks Drunk Girls Cause Rape in Infuriating Piece,” Inquisitr, October 16, 2013, http://www.inquisitr.com/995747/slates-prudie-emily-yoffe-thinks-drunk-girls-cause-rape-in-infuriating-piece/.
37.Thomas, “Emily Yoffe’s Rape Apologism: Some Very Quick Thoughts,” Yes Means Yes, October 16, 2013, https://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2013/10/16/emily-yoffes-rape-apologism-some-very-quick-thoughts/; Katie McDonough, “Sorry, Emily Yoffe: Blaming assault on women’s drinking is wrong, dangerous and tired,” Salon.com, October 16, 2013, http://www.salon.com/2013/10/16/blaming_assault_on_womens_drinking_is_tired_dangerous_rape_apology/.
38.Emily Yoffe, “Emily Yoffe Responds to Her Critics,” Slate, October 18, 2013, http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/10/18/rape_culture_and_binge_drinking_emily_yoffe_responds_to_her_critics.html.
39.Jonah Goldberg, “Rolling Stone Crumbles,” National Review Online, December 5, 2014, http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/394084/rolling-stone-crumbles-jonah-goldberg.
40.Anna Merlan, “‘Is the UVA Rape Story a Gigantic Hoax?’ Asks Idiot,” Jezebel, December 1, 4014, http://jezebel.com/is-the-uva-rape-story-a-gigantic-hoax-asks-idiot-1665233387.
41.Amanda Marcotte, tweet, December 5, 2014, https://twitter.com/amandamarcotte/status/540935488576978945.
42.Katie McDonough, “‘It makes me really depressed’: From UVA to Cosby, the rape denial playbook that won’t go away,” Salon.com, December 4, 2014, http://www.salon.com/2014/12/04/it_makes_me_really_depressed_from_uva_to_cosby_the_rape_denial_playbook_that_wont_go_away/.
43.“Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: A Brief Account,” Monticello, http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings-brief-account.
44.Bonnie Gordon, “The UVA Gang Rape Allegations Are Awful, Horrifying, and Not Shocking at All,” Slate, November 25, 2014, http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/11/25/uva_gang_rape_allegations_in_rolling_stone_not_surprising_to_one_associate.html.
45.Will Dana, “A Note to Our Readers,” Rolling Stone, December 5, 2014, http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/a-note-to-our-readers-20141205.
46.Jessica Valenti, “Who is Jackie? Rolling Stone’s rape story is about a person – and I believe her,” Guardian, December 8, 2014, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/08/who-is-jackie-rolling-stone-rape-story.
47.Andrew Elliott, “Being Phi Psi: fraternity looks forward,” Cavalier Daily, January 26, 2015, http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2015/01/interviewing-phi-psion-aftermath-of-rolling-stone-article-at-uva.
48.Jonathan H. Adler, “Does the University of Virginia owe its fraternities an apology?,” Washington Post, December 31, 2014, http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/12/31/does-the-university-of-virginia-owe-its-fraternities-an-apology/.
49.Craig Silverman, “The Year in Media Errors and Corrections 2014,” Poynter, updated December 19, 2014, http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/306801/the-year-in-media-errors-and-corrections-2014/.
50.Craig Silverman, “The year in media errors and corrections 2014,” Poynter, December 18, 2014, http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/306801/the-year-in-media-errors-and-corrections-2014/.
51.Zerlina Maxwell, “No matter what Jackie said, we should generally believe rape claims,” Washington Post, December 6, 2014, http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/06/no-matter-what-jackie-said-we-should-automatically-believe-rape-claims/.
52.“Harvard University: Denial of Due Process for Student Acquitted of C
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53.Dana Cimulluca, “Accused Former Duke Lax Player Lands Morgan Stanley Job,” Wall Street Journal, April 18, 2007, http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2007/04/18/accused-former-duke-lax-player-lands-morgan-stanley-job/.
54.Michael Dwyer, “The Duke Lacrosse Player Still Outrunning His Past,” Vanity Fair, March 24, 2014, http://www.vanityfair.com/society/2014/03/duke-lacrosse-rape-scandal-ryan-mcfadyen#.
55.Chelsea Allison, “Lax lawsuit targets Duke, Durham,” Chronicle, February 21, 2008, http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2008/02/22/lax-lawsuit-targets-duke-durham#.VJnWz7APMIA .
56.Complaint, “Case Summary,” February 2008 (see above) http://dig.abclocal.go.com/wtvd/dukeplayers38_casesummary.pdf.
57.Cathy Young, “Last Call for ‘Rape-Crisis’ Feminism?,” Reason, April 16, 2007, http://reason.com/archives/2007/04/16/last-call-for-rape-crisis-femi; Howard Kurtz, “A Blogger for Edwards Resigns After Complaints,” Washington Post, February 13, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201632.html.
58.Good Lt. “My Liberalism Says You’re Guilty of Rape (Updated),” Jawa Report, January 12, 2007, http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/186032.php.
59.“Potbangers protest Part II,” YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_RVCA5bl1E.
60.Kurt Andersen, “Rape, Justice, and the ‘Times,’” New York, October 16, 2006, http://nymag.com/news/imperialcity/22337/.
61.Wahneema Lubiano, “A Social Disaster: Voices from Durham,” NewBlackMan (in Exile) The Digital Home for Mark Anthony Neal, April 13, 2006, http://newblackman.blogspot.com/2006/04/social-disaster-voices-from-durham.html.
62.Karla FC Holloway, “Coda: Bodies of Evidence,” Scholar and Feminist, Summer 2006, http://sfonline.barnard.edu/sport/printkho.htm.
63.Karla FC Holloway, bio, http://english.duke.edu/people?Gurl=&Uil=39&subpage=profile.
64.Peter Lange, “Provost Responds to Faculty Letter Regarding Lacrosse,” Duke University, April 3, 2006, http://today.duke.edu/showcase/mmedia/features/lacrosse_incident/lange_baker.html.
65.The Situation with Tucker Carlson, June 5, 2006, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/13165471/ns/msnbc-the_ed_show/t/situation-tucker-carlson-june/#. VOIjRO85CM8.
66.“Member of Duke Lacrosse Team Breaks the Silence,” CNN, May 3, 2006, http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0605/03/lt.01.html.
67.“‘The Situation with Tucker Carlson’ for June 5,” NBC News, June 5, 2006. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/13165471/ns/msnbc-the_ed_show/t/situation-tucker-carlson-june/#.VOIjRO85CM8http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/2006/12/wendy-murphy-file.html.
68.Lara Setrakian, “Charges Dropped in Duke Lacrosse Case,” ABC News, April 11, 2007, http://abcnews.go.com/US/LegalCenter/story?id=3028515.
69.Farai Chideya, Waler Fields, Julianne Malveaux, and Ron Christie, “Roundtable: Imus, Duke Charges, Iraq Tours,” NPR, April 12, 2007, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9536095.
70.Michael Winerip, “Revisiting a Rape Scandal That Would Have Been Monstrous if True,” New York Times, June 3, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/booming/revisiting-the-tawana-brawley-rape-scandal.html.
71.Robert D. McFadden, “BRAWLEY MADE UP STORY OF ASSAULT, GRAND JURY FINDS,” New York Times, October 7, 1988, http://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/07/nyregion/brawley-made-up-story-of-assault-grand-jury-finds.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm.
72.Winerip, “Revisiting a Rape Scandal That Would Have Been Monstrous if True.”
73.Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Russlynn Ali, “Dear Colleague” Letter on Title IX, April 4, 2011, http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/letters/colleague-201104.html.
74.Robert Shibley, “Due Process, Clarity Suffer As Feds Tackle Campus Sexual Assault,” WGBH News, May 1, 2014, http://wgbhnews.org/post/due-process-clarity-suffer-feds-tackle-campus-sexual-assault.
75.Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Russlynn Ali, “Dear Colleague” Letter on Title IX.
76.Ibid.
77.Ibid.
78.Brett A. Sokolow, “Sex and Booze,” ATIXA, April 24, 2014, https://www.atixa.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ATIXA-Tip-of-the-Week-04_24_141.pdf.
79.Joe Palazzolo, “Harvard Law Professor: Feds’ Position on Sexual-Assault Policies Is ‘Madness,’” Wall Street Journal, December 31, 2014, http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2014/12/31/harvard-law-professor-feds-position-on-sexual-assault-policies-is-madness/.
80.Judith Shulevitz, “Accused College Rapists Have Rights, Too,” New Republic, October 11, 2014, http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119778/college-sexual-assault-rules-trample-rights-accused-campus-rapists.
81.“Rethink Harvard’s sexual harassment policy,” Boston Globe, October 15, 2014, http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/10/14/rethink-harvard-sexual-harassment-policy/HFDDiZN7nU2UwuUuWMnqbM/story.html.
82.Ibid.
83.Jeannie Suk, “The Trouble with Teaching Rape Law,” New Yorker, December 15, 2014, http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trouble-teaching-rape-law.
84.Jed Rubenfeld, “Mishandling Rape,” New York Times, November 15, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/opinion/sunday/mishandling-rape.html?_r=3.
85.Ibid.
86.Jessica Valenti, “If you can’t talk about rape without blaming victims, don’t talk about rape,” Guardian, November 17, 2014, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/17/rape-blaming-victims-talk.
87.Alexandra Brodsky, “7 Things You Should Know About Evidence I Campus Rape Proceedings,” Feministing, December 8, 2014, http://feministing.com/2014/12/08/7-things-you-should-know-about-evidence-in-campus-rape-proceedings/.
88.David Siders, “Jerry Brown signs ‘affirmative consent’ sex assault bill,” Sacramento Bee, September 28, 2014, http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article2614723.html.
89.“FIRE Statement on California ‘Affirmative Consent’ Bill,” FIRE, February 13, 2014, http://www.thefire.org/fire-statement-on-california-affirmative-consent-bill/.
90.Shikha Dalmia, “California’s Sexual Consent Law Will Ruin Good Sex for Women,” Reason, October 7, 2014, http://reason.com/archives/2014/10/07/ruining-sex-in-california.
91.Kaili Joy Gray, “Some Dumb Lady: Consent Will Ruin Good Sex, Boo Hoo,” Wonkette, October 8, 2014, http://wonkette.com/562741/some-dumb-lady-consent-will-ruin-good-sex-boo-hoo#6aH0pqCWhQedjvmv.99.
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93.Jill Filipovic, tweet, October 7, 2014, https://twitter.com/JillFilipovic/status/519603875293040640.
EPILOGUE
1.Debate, “LIBERALS ARE STIFLING INTELLECTUAL DIVERSITY ON CAMPUS,” Intelligence Squared, February 24, 2015, http://intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/past-debates/item/1310-liberals-are-stifling-intellectual-diversity-on-campus.
2.Bruce L.R. Smith, Jeremy D. Mayer, A. Lee Fritschler, “Closed Minds?: Politics and Ideology in American Universities,” Brookings Institution Press, August 11, 2008, http://www.amazon.com/Closed-Minds-Politics-Ideology-Universities/dp/0815780281#.
3.Transcript, “Liberals are stifling intellectual diversity on campus,” Intelligence Squared, February 24, 2015, http://intelligencesquaredus.org/images/debates/past/transcripts/022415%20Liberal%20Stifling.pdf.
INDEX
60 Minutes, 135
1984, 56, 149, 168
A
Aaron, Hank, 34
Abbate, Cheryl, 54–55
ABC, 12, 110, 112, 114–15, 119, 129, 131, 133, 152
abortion, 5–6, 31–32, 38–39, 65, 69–72, 74–76, 82, 94, 99, 105–6, 141–42, 151–56, 160, 162–65, 167–71, 196
Abrams, Floyd, 15–16
Abramson, Jill, 139
academia, 7, 9, 18–19, 87, 145, 200. See also individual institutions
Achebe, Chinua, 85
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The, 1–2
affirmative action, 28, 32
“affirmative consent,” 196–97
Affleck, Ben, 10, 61
Affordable Care Act, 5, 35, 57, 151. See also Obamacare
African Americans, 2–3, 18, 26–30, 33–37, 52, 73, 77–78, 97, 126, 150, 190–91
Age of Un-Enlightenment, 17–20
Agness, Karin, 159
agnostics, xiv, 33, 197
Ailes, Roger, 45, 125
Alaska, xi, 157–59, 173
Ali, Ayaan Hirsi, 62–65, 96, 98, 105, 172
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (a.k.a. Alice in Wonderland), 98, 179
Allen, Mike, 133
Alliance for Quality Education, 22
“All Lives Matter,” 78
Allure, 122
Alvaré, Helen, 152
Ambrosino, Brandon, 143
American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), 201
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 1, 38, 65
American College of Surgeons (ACS), 174–75
American experiment, the, 93
American Federation of Teachers, 22
American Journal of Public Health, 176
American Movie Classics (AMC), 128
American Prospect, 39, 44, 143
American Psycho, 190
Anahita, Sine, 173
Anderson, Kurt, 191
anti-abortion rights, anti-abortion protestors, 5–6, 69–72, 74, 76, 105, 160, 163, 165, 169–71, 196
anti-Christian attitudes, 61, 104, 202
anti-Communist, 10
anti-discrimination policies, 6, 59, 104
anti-gay, 50, 54
April Fools’ Day joke, 173
Arana, Maria, 141
archaeology, archaeologists, xi
Arizona State University, 99, 180–81
Arriaga, Kristina, 151
Associated Press, 46–47, 86, 113, 135, 138, 140, 161, 182
Association of Women Surgeons, 174
atheists, 61, 64, 98–100, 150, 200
Atlantic, 41, 78, 166, 172