Surprise, surprise, surprise: Laura Kipnis suddenly cleared of Title IX charges.

(Via Instapundit) Amazing how that happens, huh?

Laura Kipnis, the Northwestern University professor who became the subject of two Title IX complaints after publishing an essay in The Chronicle Review, has been cleared of wrongdoing by the university under the federal civil-rights law, which requires colleges to respond to reports of sexual misconduct.

Ms. Kipnis said in an interview on Sunday that she received two letters Friday night from the law firm Northwestern had hired to investigate both complaints. In each case, the firm judged that the ”preponderance of evidence does not support the complaint allegations.”

Because surely it had nothing to do with the fact that her story blew up on Friday itself, to what was largely a pan-spectrum reaction of horror and disbelief at what was going on.  Surely.  Undoubtedly.  Ya, you betcha. Anyway, the real problem here, of course, is that it’s the people who can’t trigger a viral storm of visceral disapproval who are most affected by this sort of thing…