The bill, AB 967, would have required colleges in the state to give at least a two-year suspension to any student found responsible of a sexual assault violation in a campus judiciary process.
Yet this endless judiciary process ensures an immortality which has little to do with the works of Arthur Rimbaud (who took the initiative to publish only one volume, "Une Saison en Enfer" ("A Season in Hell"), a collection of nine prose poems; all his other writing appeared under others' auspices (he was long gone in Africa when the "Illuminations" finally saw book form).
In the spring, when three players along with a former one were accused of sexual misconduct, Willingham let the university judiciary process run its course and did not even comment when the players were subsequently expelled.
And so step one on the judiciary process, I believe there needs to be reform.
In the meantime, Mr. Ergin announced last week proposals to speed the judiciary process and limit the grounds for pretrial detention.
Unlike the extrajudicial beheadings IS carries out against hostages and others, the kingdom says its judiciary process requires at least 13 judges at three levels of court to rule in favor of a death sentence before it is carried out.
But late on Friday, Jaffar Abbas Dowlatabadi, the prosecutor of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, said the release had been canceled because "the judiciary process has not been completed" in her case.
As the American Association of University Women puts it, "institutional barriers" include: "administrators who respond to students with disbelief or other inappropriate behavior and campus judiciary processes that are difficult to understand and follow.
And my answer was, 'It's never going to happen unless you treat your people right, you have transparency, due process, a judiciary, a free press,'" he said.
It is interesting to see that Senator Orrin G. Hatch took the time to write a letter on the politicization of the judiciary confirmation process that illustrates how the process got that way (letter, April 3).
