What would stop a serial honor code abuser, like this woman is, according to the honor code letter that she took to the press looking for support for her story, from claiming rape to stay in school? Does the guy get the same consideration until the courts have made a decision?

We are truly in the middle of a rape epidemic: an epidemic of women falsely claiming to have been raped.

It’s said that “women never lie about rape!” But the evidence shows that women lie about rape all the time — for attention, for revenge and for an alibi. All serious studies of the matter suggest that at least 40 percent of rape claims are false.

The U.S. Air Force, for example, examined more than a thousand rape allegations on military bases over the course of four years and concluded that 46 percent were false. In 27 percent of the cases, the accuser recanted. A large study of rape allegations over nine years in a small Midwestern city, by Eugene J. Kanin of Purdue University, found that 41 percent of the rape claims were false.

That’s why the feminists are so anxious to move on from the UVA nonsense rape story. They want to move on now so they can come back to it later, when everyone’s forgotten, and start citing UVA as their No. 1 example of the rape culture.

The Duke lacrosse case proves that. In an unusual move, after that rape turned out to be yet another hoax, the players refused to accept the case being dismissed for “insufficient evidence,” which is how prosecutors usually drop charges. They insisted on being declared “innocent.”

This, the attorney general did. He also denounced the prosecutor, Mike Nifong, and saw that he was disbarred.

BYU should make sure that their honor code actions do not get in the way of the potential legal activity, but once it is clear that the legal process has run its course, of course students who are breaking the honor code in a major way should be responsible for their behavior.

Notes: http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2014-12-17.html