Re: Due process kicked off campus, May 15 George F. Will column.
George F. Will was right to criticize the Education Department s civil rights office, where I used to work, for its attempts to micromanage schools disciplinary procedures.
For example, it discourages colleges from allowing cross-examination in sexual misconduct cases. That is unwise, because the Supreme Court called cross-examination the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth in Lilly vs. Virginia (1999). Colleges have been ordered to allow it in a few court rulings, like Donohue vs. Baker (1997).
Cross-examination helps colleges debunk false allegations and reach the right decision.
Hans Bader, Arlington, Va.
This letter was published in the May 21 edition.
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