And nasa computers and stealing employee information. He was arrested friday in london, but hes free on bail until february. Right now no one else has been charged. Those are the headlines at this hour. Im John Seigenthaler. America tonight is up next on al jazeera. Ill be back here at 11 00 eastern and 8 00 out west. Get the latest news on aljazeera. Com. Well sue back here later. On america tonight, we begin our indeath look at sex crimes on campus with a startling revelation about the attackers and just how frequently women students become victims. These serial offenders had on average 14 victims. Also tonight, remembering sandy. A superstorm that washed away the innocence of the jersey shore. My dad was looking out the window at the firemen. Theyre bringing on the moves, the heat and the age of a timeless art. Geed evening. Im joie chen. Thanks for being with us. Tonight we begin our weeklong focus on Sexual Assault on campus and the impact on victims. What we found in weeks of rep
On April 4, 2011, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released a document dramatically reinterpreting Title IX, the federal law that prohibits gender discrimination in colleges and universities that receive federal funds.[1] The document issued by the OCR was a “Dear Colleague” letter, an allegedly informal agency guidance that Department of Education officials claimed did not need to follow notice-and-comment rulemaking pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act.
and yet, it wasn t based on any law passed by congress. it wasn t even a new regulation. the 2011 dear colleague letter did not go through any sort of review process. was not subject to congressional approval of any kind. it was basically an interoffice memo that is now being used to create new laws new policies, and new ways to punish schools if they do not follow those policies. reporter: one place that got the message loud and clear was occidental college. even before john doe cake to campus the school was facing a class action lawsuit with 37 female students claiming their sexual assault accusations had been mismanaged. two well-known champions for up ending the system are occidental professors caroline heldman and danielle dirks, whom we met earlier. we have the examples of sexual assault that are rampant. reporter: together they headed occidental s sexual
on. reporter: is the solution worse than the problem? fox news reporting, the truth about sex and college. and now, martha maccallum. like so much else on college campuses today sex has become deeply politicized. matters that were once commonly understood are now up for grabs. what is consent? what is sexual activity? and most importantly, what constitutes an assault? we ve long heard the government is best kept out of the bedroom. but as it turns out in colleges across the nation government is insisting that it be referee in life s most intimate moments. and far from resisting, activist activists on campus are inviting the government in in fact they re demanding that it do more. we investigated how the rule book on campus sex is being rewritten and what we discovered may surprise you. john doe as we will call him grew up in northern california. a dedicated student who attended a magnet high school and had a passion for history. i believe in a very good student. i wou