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ÃÛÖÏãÌÒ's Case at Duke Gets National Attention in 'Boston Globe,' 'Washington Times,' 'The Atlantic'
FIRE's exposé of Duke University's unjust sexual misconduct policy—a policy that transmogrifies students into unwitting rapists—is drawing the attention of some of America's best-known publications. In The Boston Globe, Cathy Young to Duke's policy, while FIRE Vice President Robert Shibley has in today's Washington Times. Meanwhile, The Atlantic's Wendy Kaminer, a member of ÃÛÖÏãÌÒ's Board of Advisors, and the political assumptions underlying the policy. Duke, meanwhile, has remained silent, making it increasingly obvious that it cannot defend this outrageously unfair policy.
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