If the potential rapist is tried in a real court and found guilty, kick him out. If me or someone I loved got raped and the only people punishing the bastard was the school I'm going to be super pissed. Again, it's beyond stupid that schools do this. It's fine for things like cheating, maybe even fighting (I'd still rather that get taken care of in a real courtroom), but for serious crimes, it's stupid.
I more or less agree with this. the problem is that pressure gets placed on institutions other than the state to take action. see the NFL and Ray Rice/Adrian Peterson: while the state doesn't view these people as too dangerous to be incarcerated, people view the fact that they're allowed (or were allowed) to participate as evidence of the NFL's lack of moral standard.
Bacon King brings up the counter-point:
Okay, organizations with independent executive authority like marching band can basically determine their own membership standards as much as they want, right?
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For smaller groups dealing with these problems internally, fairness isn't really so relevant. It's about the reputation and integrity of the organization,
at its most basic level, this is one of the problems with a heavily privatized society. power to mess with lives gets placed in Roger Goodell's hands, or the marching band exec's hands, or with the university professor. at one level, since they act on behalf of private organizations, they can do whatever they want, fairness be damned... yet somehow, we know this isn't the whole story, that private orgs owe something to the public interest, owing to their social function.
public relations is degenerated democracy. we have these organizations that are crucial to the wider society -- universities and professional football -- that are designed as hierarchical, essentially totalitarian private dictatorships. yet we demand that they uphold basic standards of "decency" and cry foul when they don't.
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