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No due process at SMU

Posted on December 16, 2014 | 1 comment

The Ponies don’t just have a lousy football team, they’ve also rigged the system against students accused of rape. Men, in other words. Despite all the recanted rape charges of recent years, the feds still encourage (shoot, they require) schools to favor the rape accuser over the accused.

“To reiterate: this new procedure, which OCR [federal Office of Civil Rights] requires SMU to continue in the future: (1) denies the accused student the right to an attorney; (2) denies the accused student the right to cross-examine his accuser; (3) allows the accused student no meaningful discovery; (4) can brand the accused student a rapist even if SMU’s own investigator and, later, own conduct review officer concludes he did nothing wrong; and (5) can reach that determination on a 3-2 vote.”

Innocent until proven guilty? Not on this subject and not at SMU. Keep your nose clean out there. The Supreme Soviet (i.e. OCR) is back in business, in Dallas.

Via Instapundit.

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Nuclear watchdogs

Posted on October 13, 2006 | Comments Off on Nuclear watchdogs

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Southern Methodist University in Dallas operates two nuclear blast detectors like this one–one south of Reno, Nevada, and another in Big Bend, in West Texas. No word from the university whether their instruments detected anything from North Korea, but since they’re funded by the Defense Deparment, they presumably are keeping mum until the Bush Administration issues its definitive report. Popular Mechanics describes the international detection system in this link from Instapundit.

Meanwhile, Pajamas Media thinks there’s little chance it was a hoax: "The emerging consensus is that such a trick would be very difficult; getting all of the TNT to explode in the same nanosecond is nearly impossible."

UPDATE Comes the confirmation. "The United States reported Monday that radiation-detecting aircraft had confirmed that North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test a week ago." Size: less than a kiloton. Which is impressive enough: even low-yield nuclear weapons are very powerful and destructive. "The nuclear weapon that destroyed Hiroshima had a yield of 10-15 kilotons, so weapons of up to five kilotons are still quite large." Call it a mini-Hiroshima. Suburb sized.

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