THE WAR ON COLLEGE MEN (CONT’D): Will UC-San Diego keep hiding witnesses that could prove accused students innocent?

The University of California-San Diego routinely hides the identity of witnesses that could help students accused of wrongdoing exonerate themselves, departing from its own rules on who is “relevant” to an investigation.

This policy, which has been applied against accused students for at least the past five years, was not publicly known until 11 months ago. A state appeals court fleshed out its existence in a due-process lawsuit against the school by a student who was found responsible for cheating and expelled.

That court struck down UCSD’s ruling against Jonathan Dorfman, saying it had no legal reason to withhold the identity of “Student X” – whose test answers Dorfman allegedly copied – from him.

Arguing before the court, the UC System’s own lawyer admitted that the school had never bothered to ask Student X where he was sitting in class that day in 2011 – potentially preempting its case against Dorfman.

It was the second time in just a few months that a California court had found UCSD denied an accused student basic fairness in an adjudication.

Why are lefty institutions such cesspits of unfairness, secrecy, and dishonesty?