In response to: Title IX Protest

Norman Ravitch *62

5 Years Ago

Alma Mater? Or Parole Officer?

I know nothing about this issue and wish to know even less! A university is ill-equipped for such problems and should leave them to the city police. The young have always misbehaved and in medieval Europe, students were given benefit of clergy, like clergy today: cover-ups of all sorts to hide pedophilia, sexual abuse, and simple rape. The ecclesiastical courts were then as now very lenient and understanding that sinners will sin. Today's university cannot offer this benefit of clergy.

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