If the investigation of the Cornell Seven results in indictments, they will be tried in a court of law where they are entitled to a fair trial. Sadly, that's not true for the hundreds of college students each year accused of sexual assault who fall into the clutches of college disciplinary panels. Students and their parents need to know these campus proceedings generally are rigged for the female accuser. They're kangaroo courts dispensing lynch law to college boys.

On September 26, coincidentally the same day prosecutors reopened the Cornell case, President Donald Trump's Department of Education announced new rules, long in the works before Cornell hit the headlines, that colleges must follow in responding to sexual assault charges or lose their federal funding.

Not a day too soon. Cleaning up this anti-male unfairness, which originated on orders from former President Barack Obama in 2011, is urgently needed.

At many colleges, the female accuser is shielded with anonymity, like Jane Doe in the Cornell case, but the accused young men are unfairly named, ruining their reputations and futures no matter what the truth is.

On most campuses, the female accuser is called a "survivor," as if there's no question the assault happened. She should be called the complaining witness.

Invariably, she's backed up by a phalanx of campus administrators ready to help.

She's often allowed to present more evidence than the accused and sometimes is even spared cross-examination, violating the most........

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