Title IX investigation undone by hearing officer’s social media

ROANOKE, Va. — A Virginia Tech student’s Title IX sex discrimination lawsuit will proceed against the university because he presented sufficient evidence that his hearing officer overseeing his alleged sexual assault of a classmate harbored a bias against men. The officer had tweeted, in reference to a documentary about sexual assault, that he would hold men in general accountable and had retweeted other generalizations about men failing to understand consent. His testimony about implicit bias and patriarchy “could reasonably give rise to concerns ... regarding his impartiality.”