MSU Burried Nassar Files During Title IX Investigation
Michigan State University, under U.S. Department of Education oversight since 2014 because of its mishandling of sexual assault and gender discrimination cases, asked federal officials last fall to end their monitoring of the university because administrators had been acting in "good faith" and had "gone above and beyond" in meeting standards laid out by federal officials, according to documents obtained by Outside the Lines.
The Oct. 17 request was rejected outright by federal officials for several reasons but in large part because of how the university has handled sexual assault allegations against former MSU athletics physician Larry Nassar, the documents obtained by Outside the Lines show:
-Michigan State administrators in 2014 did not notify federal officials that the university had dual Title IX and campus police investigations of Nassar underway even though federal investigators were on campus that year scrutinizing how MSU dealt with sexual assault allegations.
-MSU administrators still have not provided to federal officials all documents related to the Nassar allegations.
http://www.espn.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/22211140/michigan-state-sought-…
January 25th, 2018 at 1:08 PM ^
Sorry for the format, posting from phone.
January 25th, 2018 at 2:04 PM ^
of Civil Rights investigation into how MSU handled sexual assault and gender discrimination cases ended with findings that MSU had fostered a 'sexually hostile environment' on campus."
Fostered.
I feel less and less charitably inclined toward MSC, MSU, anyone involved.
January 25th, 2018 at 2:18 PM ^
MSC?? Who is that?
January 25th, 2018 at 2:47 PM ^
I think he is lumping all short-haired female university presidents together and slandering the good name of Mary Sue Coleman?
January 25th, 2018 at 2:47 PM ^
Lou Anna Simon
January 25th, 2018 at 4:19 PM ^
Wow. The only analogy I can come up with is that MSU is the Baylor of the North. What happened at State is on a par with covering up a murder.
January 26th, 2018 at 5:21 AM ^
then throw in the shenanigans some of the past basketball players supposedly got up to and that were completely glossed over and it could get even worse.
January 25th, 2018 at 1:11 PM ^
META: request site name change to MGoLarryNassarNewsBlog[dot]com
January 25th, 2018 at 1:15 PM ^
We can take this request to committee. And since you've been here for almost two whole months, I'm sure your suggestion will be put in the "Really Important Ideas We Should Think A Lot About" pile...
January 25th, 2018 at 1:23 PM ^
You seem important, thanks.
January 25th, 2018 at 1:30 PM ^
Hey, that insult was directed at me!
January 25th, 2018 at 2:36 PM ^
I always thought Swiper should have been a turtle. They have a talking backpack, why not a kleptomaniac turtle?
January 25th, 2018 at 3:41 PM ^
Another example of the man trying to keep foxes down with casting that reinforces negative stereotypes to influence the masses.
January 25th, 2018 at 4:59 PM ^
i hear that...
January 25th, 2018 at 2:37 PM ^
dont talk to my perverted clown-loving friend like that
January 25th, 2018 at 2:59 PM ^
We had a 5 hour board meeting and we spent about 10 minutes on that issue. There are so many other things going on right now.
January 25th, 2018 at 4:49 PM ^
About that pile....
You see, we used it as kindling for the fireplace in the Mod Room during the last cold snap. Tons of great suggestions in that pile actually - we read them as we threw them in. Shame they had to die in a fire the way that they did.
January 25th, 2018 at 1:23 PM ^
"No?"
January 25th, 2018 at 1:45 PM ^
You can piss off, People's Shea. While everyone knows who Nassar is at this point and what happened over the past whatever amount of years, this stuff needs to be out there and people need to read or hear it. MSU should burn to the fucking ground for this negligence and criminal activity covering. Yes, I'm a little biased because I hate everything about MSU, but this goes beyond that. What happened there for years is unacceptable.
January 25th, 2018 at 2:01 PM ^
Until recently all that would come out is a little smoke but no fire...now the fire is raging, and a lot of our opinions about MSU's administration and AD culture are being confirmed.
January 25th, 2018 at 4:13 PM ^
What are you talking about? There's always been fires coming out of East Lansing. Oh, I get it, you're not talking about the couch fires.
On a serious note, I'm glad this is happening. Whether I hate the school or not. This type of thing is just terrible and with so many victims something drastic needed to be done and I think it finally is. Hopefully the closure will only help the victims put this behind them and will allow them to move on and live a great life.
January 25th, 2018 at 1:56 PM ^
Would you rather we NOT discuss the worst sexual assault scandal ever?
That's literally how this got to be the worst sexual assault scandal ever. I can only hope that due to this national discussion, right now some girl/boy/man/woman is being taken seriously when reporting abuse.
Go to hell.
January 25th, 2018 at 4:17 PM ^
We all have that issue, just every now and then.
January 25th, 2018 at 9:16 PM ^
Maybe if the soldier really knew how to load that mortar tube, it would have launched with some force...
;)
January 25th, 2018 at 3:03 PM ^
Interesting how the "new posters" (read:MSU concern trolls) strangely aren't comfortable with this.
January 25th, 2018 at 1:12 PM ^
This could all snowball and end really badly for MSU. Believe it or not, when it turns out that someone employed by your organization has sexually assaulted more people than anyone in the history of sexual assault (with the possible exception of famed rapist and super-great-grandfather to half of Asia, Genghis Khan), the authorities tend to start looking at all things directly related and not at all very, very carefully. Sometimes, this leads to big trouble from unrelated incidents (**COUGH** Appling and Paine **COUGH**)
January 25th, 2018 at 1:36 PM ^
reference...... dammit
January 25th, 2018 at 2:38 PM ^
All the upvotes for not using that scene from the reboot.
January 25th, 2018 at 3:44 PM ^
They re-made Star Trek 2 already? I
January 25th, 2018 at 1:50 PM ^
Favorite line from Bill and Ted’s EA: “Want a Twinkie Genghis Khan?”
January 25th, 2018 at 2:43 PM ^
was Freud eating a corndog.
January 25th, 2018 at 10:59 PM ^
Not only that, but that you actively withheld information from said organization, and then failed to cooperate with the federal fucking government.
Simon belongs in jail and MSU should get Lack of Institutional Control.
January 26th, 2018 at 5:30 AM ^
DID use the wrong wording after all? Instead of "right person" he meant "All the people" which would presumably include himself for whatever part he might have played in covering over that little incident...
January 25th, 2018 at 1:38 PM ^
For a good reason this time . . .
January 25th, 2018 at 2:19 PM ^
Is that President Simon sitting on the right side?
January 25th, 2018 at 1:14 PM ^
Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
January 25th, 2018 at 3:11 PM ^
You can't make that kind of decision Bleed Maize N Blue, you're just a grunt...no offense...
January 25th, 2018 at 1:14 PM ^
I wonder if the cover ups for Appling, Payne, etc. will be uncovered. Didn't Dantonio basically drive Winston from jail to a game?
The DOJ should step in and fix some things up in EL. Their "Team MSU" vs. the world mentality has caused enough trouble. Time for it to end.
January 25th, 2018 at 1:26 PM ^
All of those “alleged” Rapes will come back into focus, along with those that swept them under the rug. Winters here MSU
January 26th, 2018 at 7:43 AM ^
I'm really looking forward to the rationalizations that are about to run rampant across MSU blogs leading the collective meathead brahs to reach the obvious conclusion that Michigan is to blame for all their woes.
January 25th, 2018 at 4:21 PM ^
....this would make for an even tougher week for izzo!
January 25th, 2018 at 1:19 PM ^
175 years sentence was too light for that sorry excuse for an oxygen wasting human being.
January 25th, 2018 at 1:24 PM ^
Bring back the firing squad!!
January 25th, 2018 at 1:29 PM ^
It would save a lot of money...
January 25th, 2018 at 1:39 PM ^
eh, it'd be a surprise if he lives more than a couple years. he's never getting out, he will get absolutely torn apart in gen pop, so he'll have to stay in solitary. suicide is going to start looking real attractive very quickly.