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Title IX Officer Describes Flaws in “Yes Means Yes” Policy, but Still Backs It

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Wait, what?! A Title IX officer at Santa Clara still believes in the “yes means yes” consent policy, although it is flawed:

The Title IX coordinator at Santa Clara University, a Catholic school with very un-Catholic faculty, knows exactly what’s wrong with “affirmative consent” policies that require an accused student to prove he got sexual consent from his partner.

But Belinda Guthrie thinks that good people can magically overcome bad policies.

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