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Laura Kipnis Tackles Campus Sexual Politics In 'Unwanted Advances'

Kipnis, a professor at Northwestern, argues that Title IX investigations of sexual misconduct on campus are vastly overexpanded, to the point of chilling intellectual freedom and academic debate.
Source: Marian Carrasquero

A few years ago Laura Kipnis — a tenured professor at Northwestern — . In it she argued that the rules governing sexual relationships between students and professors had become draconian. The response was intense, eventually growing to include a . She was ultimately cleared, but Kipnis has more to say. She tells me that Title IX, "which started out, you know, as something about equity for

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