Sounds Like Some People I Know

“Many codes explicitly encourage charging a student with sexual harassment even if his intent is innocent . . . The City University of New York warns that ‘sexual harassment is not defined by intentions, but by impact on the subject.’ As Herbert London, a dean and a professor of humanities of New York University, notes, since ‘accusations are based on ‘impact,’ not intention, therefore, the accused is guilty if the accuser believers him to be guilty'” (The Shadow University, pp. 92-93).