Justice for a rape victim requires that the rapist serve a long prison sentence. Pretending that expulsion from college provides justice is contemptuous of the victim’s suffering. Expulsion is for cheating on exams, not for crimes of violence.

The purpose of campus “prosecutions” for sexual assault is to persuade victims not to file proper legal complaints, thereby protecting the University’s reputation by underreporting crime on campus (a public record by the Clery Act), to protect rapists by obstructing their criminal prosecution and to provide jobs for “Title IX Coordinators.” It is not to, and cannot, provide justice for victims.

The mentality of these “prosecutions” is that of a lynch mob: a crime is alleged, and the mob wishes to avoid the delays and uncertainties of the criminal justice system. So, they get a rope and hang the accused. Fortunately, universities don’t have rope and gallows.