Colleges Expel Few Sexual Misconduct Offenders While Survivors Suffer

Title IX was passed 50 years ago, and is supposed to ensure that students have a right to an education that is free from sexual harassment and gendered violence. Colleges are supposed to institute and support systems for investigating allegations, protecting complainants and disciplining perpetrators. 

However, USA TODAY, in an 18-month investigation, found that the system in colleges and universities is extremely flawed, and victims' complaints are rarely addressed adequately. Most likely perpetrators will not be addressed and victims are left feeling alone. Minimal actions are taken and light sanctions are imposed, undercutting findings of fault. 

https://www.registerguard.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2022/11/16/title-ix-campus-rape-colleges-sexual-misconduct-expel-suspend/7938853001/?for-guid=838884cc-6495-11ed-bba5-c6850bc7e2d6&utm_source=registerguard-DailyBriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_briefing&utm_term=hero&utm_content=NREG-OREGON-EUGENE-NLETTER65

Donald Trump Continues Building His Hierarchies

Surprising no one, Donald Trump announced today he will again run for president of the United States.

Being successful at using every control tactic in the book of Hierarchies, he continues to try to gain power. He lies, steals, condones violence, does what he can to keep resources going to those on top, avoids accountability, and believes in controlling the lives and bodies of those in lower groups, etc.

It will be interesting to see how the Republican Party fares with him in the race. Since the Republican Party has supported hierarchies virtually 100% in the last decades, they are perfect bedfellows with Trump. How farther will the Republican Party have to sell its soul in order to rid itself of Trump, or possibly once again embrace him?

Hierarchies make for very strange alliances. Evangelical hierarchial religions would rather support a man like Hershel Walker than vote for Raphael Warnock who has devoted his life to Christianity. Supporting hierarchies of the Republican party is on the very top of their agenda. 

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/politics/trump-2024-presidential-bid/index.html

Mormons Support Same-sex Marriage

Who would have ever thought that the Mormon Church would support same-sex marriage! 

Today the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced support of a proposed federal law that would codify marriages between same-sex couples. 

Hierarchies can break down little by little, even among the conservative, hierarchy-based religions, even if it takes forever it seems. Here is a great example. 

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2022/11/15/lds-church-comes-out-federal/