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...Misumbo Byrd, the director of Columbia’s Office of Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Education, says she feels the school’s policy—which has a separate disciplinary panel only for cases of sexual misconduct—is as good...
Byrd hears the complaints of alleged sexual assault victims and then convenes Columbia’s disciplinary panel, which is composed of two deans and one student, to gather statements and hear the cases...
...panel records the statements of both the alleged victim and the accused student and broadcasts them in another room so that each student can hear the others’ side without having to face each other...
...Columbia has faced its own problems. As at Harvard, accused students at Columbia are not allowed to have a lawyer present at the meetings with the disciplinary panel. According to Byrd, this regulation had originally provoked concern that Columbia was violating the rights of accused students...
...appointment of an independent counsel? a bone-dry memo? searing partisan accusations? the public shaming of former FBI director Louis Freeh? - its very existence appeals to Americans' sense of frustration, especially as new revelations of lapses surface. Everyone, including the President, the public and each member of the congressional panel wants to know: how did so much crucial information slip through our intelligence channels? And how in the world can we keep that from happening again...