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I don’t think people would be defending a male athlete throwing hot coffee on a female athlete for some perceived wrongdoing that had been investigated and dropped by two different investigatory agencies.[/quote]

That's not the issue.  Throwing hot coffee on another person is not defensible.

The concern is how the university handled that transgression.  Was it overly punitive?  Was it appropriate to threaten removal of her degree?  Is it fair that other students who commit physical assault don't face similar consequences?  Should her previously clean disciplinary record (3+ years on campus) be considered?  Should their knowledge that she was seeking therapy factor into how they delivered this news? Was it necessary to draw out the process for six months and deliver the threat of expulsion within hours of the filing deadline? Was there appropriate due process? And the bigger question...did the sum of their actions contribute to her death?

Stanford's OCR judicial process was under scrutiny for over 10 years prior to this incident.  Reforms were recommended.  It seems many of those reforms were not implemented.

I'm not sure the university will be held accountable, but one can hope this leads to reform of their disciplinary process.  This is a life that could have been saved with a different approach...that's the real tragedy here. 
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She hadn’t even had her hearing on the merits of the charge and appropriate punishment, so most of those questions can’t be answered.  It certainly sounds like sufficient due process as she had a least one opportunity, possibly more, to present her side of the story before the decision was made to hold a hearing.[/quote]

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