The elite private college disciplined Dunn with a permanent letter in the senior’s academic file, according to a report in the student newspaper, the Middlebury Campus.
The college’s review found that Dunn obstructed a campus Title IX investigation into the allegations by refusing to share with college administrators the names of the students who accused the men. Dunn also violated the college’s “respect for persons policy” by publishing the list of “men to avoid,” according to the report in the Campus.
Dunn did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday but a friend of hers, Tiff Chang, has confirmed the sanction to Seven Days. College officials declined comment.
But other people are still talking about the list. After it was posted in mid-December, Facebook quickly removed it, but an uproar ensued as screenshots circulated on campus.
Some students hailed Dunn as a brave leader in the #MeToo movement who was standing up for victims who have been wronged. Others said the list ruined the reputations of innocent people without evidence or due process.
This week, a website called the College Fix published a column by an anonymous Middlebury student who wrote that he has become a pariah on campus after being falsely tagged as a rapist on the list. The site bills itself as “Original. Student reported. Your daily dose of right-minded news and commentary from across the nation.” Associate editor Greg Piper said he verified that the writer is a Midd student whose name appeared on the list.
The column says, “For the past two months, I’ve dealt with the social and psychological fallout of being anonymously branded a rapist on a small liberal arts campus.” It adds, “Most of my close female friends have abandoned me, and other friends continually make excuses to avoid me. I even considered suicide.”
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oooooh. It’s in her permanent record! until she graduates.
So, what business is it of the college what she posts on Facebook? Think of all the ways men have disparaged and maligned men for generations…turn about is fair play, as far as I am concerned.
A letter of reprimand tucked away in her academic file? Really? I’m sure the 36 young lives she’s wrecked are really, really grateful for that. How does this deter her in any way? Her unsubstantiated accusations were PUBLIC, and are still circulating. But her so-called discipline is private, and no one can see it but her. When she applies for graduate school, or a job, and she has to produce an academic transcript, will the admissions people or the job interviewer ever see or even know about the “letter of reprimand”?
I hope she gets sued by a number of the people she’s defamed.
Anxiously awaiting one/some of Dunns victims to sue for libel slander defamation with the understanding there will be no financial victory because she undoubtedly has no assets. But it would be an effective way to drag this miscreants name through the mud which is exactly what she deserves, especially since the feckless, politically-correct poltroons running the school are too cowardly to suspend or expel.
Here’s a question for a commentator on here., who thinks it’s fair play. What if the list is false? That these girls gave names of guys who brushed off the girl’s advances? That the guys didn’t want to go out with them. Ever think about that. ?? I know that there are guys that have done sexual assault and harassment. Yet if there’s no proof what then? Hell, even girls are known to have done sexual assault and harassment and don’t say they haven’t. Unless Elizabeth Dunn can prove these charges she should had been expelled from the college. and her file made public..!!
Stop misogynoir.. Unless you’ve experienced sexism and racism in your dating relationship, you will never get it. It happens, it’s real. . It’s called objectification, fetishism and exotification. I hear you, Elizabeth Dunn. Male and White privilege. Times up!
” , , , you will never get it.”
Nor, apparently, will you ever get that destroying the reputations of 35 people you don’t even know, in the name of a “greater cause,” or because you feel that you were taken advantage of three years ago in a mutually drunken episode, is completely unethical, unjust, and immoral.
If even one of those males that Ms. Dunn accused of being an rapist or an assaulter is innocent, she should pay dearly for her conduct.
And you say this is about white privilege? How do you know that none of the 36 males she accused isn’t a person of color?
Take your ridiculous, misguided, professional victimhood somewhere else.
Misogynoir isn’t even a real word. It was made up by a grad student in 2010. Here’s another new word I just made up: provigoway. Professional Victims, Go Away.
Kim Butterfield says that it is alright for women to falsely accuse men of sexual assault as fair turn about for generations of disparagement.
The next time a woman alleges that she has been sexually assaulted, the fact that people wont believe her will be directly the result of women like Butterfield. If people dont trust or believe women, you cant blame men, it is because women like Kim Butterfield consider false accusations of rape fair play.
Elizabeth should have been expelled. Everyone she accused could have easily been expelled for her false accusations.
I don’t know anything about the facts of this case, but I can tell you from personal experience that Middlebury College has a problem with the behavior of at least one college professor who works at the French School during the summers. There is also a problem with their system for resolving such issues. The person who files a complaint is blocked from having access to the investigative report and therefore cannot address the errors, omissions and deliberate misstatements contained in the report prior to adjudication. The investigative officer is an attorney hired by the college and he is the person who prepares the investigative report. The deck is stacked against the complainant. The complaint process is joke. There is also the appearance that Middlebury College is not conducting a criminal background check from the professors’ country of origin prior to hiring. I have two graduate degrees from Middlebury and I am ashamed of my college. The trustees need to get involved and fire some people in the school administration.
“There is also a problem with their system for resolving such issues. The person who files a complaint is blocked from having access to the investigative report and therefore cannot address the errors, omissions and deliberate misstatements contained in the report prior to adjudication.”
Isn’t that also true of the accused in these college star-chamber investigations with no due process to the accused? He may not even know that he has been accused until the college’s “investigator” shows up to interview him. He has no access to the investigative report and cannot address, errors, omissions, and deliberate misstatements. The accused is interviewed, probably only once, and then later finds out if the investigator has found him to be guilty. The investigator decides who’s right and who’s wrong. After the investigator files the report with the college, the accused may or may not get a “hearing” by a panel of people with no experience in conducting hearings, before he is sentenced. He may be expelled from the college based on whether one single interviewer finds him credible or not, after one single interview. His life is essentially destroyed. Unlike Middlebury, many of these college investigations are performed not by lawyers but by laypeople with no experience at all in conducting quasi-criminal investigations. The star-chambering of college kids must stop.