The State News (MSU Student Paper) Calls For Simon To Resign

Good to see the pressure mounting.  I wouuld like to think there are some big time donors to MSU that will be (or have) made similar statements.  It is a matter of time for heads to roll.  That said, losing jobs is not enough for some of those people.  There are criminal acts that some people (looking straight at you Klages and Teachner-Hauk) need to answer to.  

I am not saying that criminal acts haven't reached the top of that administration, but they certainly took place at lower levels and so lets start there and only then will we begin to learn which individuals need to face the music being sung loudly by these incredible young women making their victim statements.

And on a seondary note, good for the judge for essentially shoving the letter Nassar wrote trying to get himself out of listening to these statements right up his ass.  She has been awesome with how she has handled this horrific fuck-wad.

Simon will eventually resign. I don't think students, or parents, or athletes, or the courts, or the media, are going to let go. The fact that many at MSU are disgusted and calling for change is the death knell. The judge said that they will prolong hearings as long as there are victims who want to speak publicly. I wouldn't be surprised if more bombshell testimony comes out. And I think that a number of the MSU trustees will be elected out (i.e., not reelected.) I sure wouldn't want to be a trustee who was stonewalling.

Good. 

But - obviously I haven't followed this as closely as I could have - but it seems to me they should have done this a long time ago.

Also, if that's true up above what someone said about the trustees issuing a statement of support, then fuck them all.

before she can resign

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USA Gymnastics is finally dropping the Karolyi ranch.

A camp that was to start Monday is canceled.

I don't know if Simon's role or lack of role has been clearly established. To be honest it wouldn't surprise me if there was little that she was able to do in one way or another.

But that "I don't know" is huge, because MSU does not seem to be responsive in addressing the how and the why regarding Nassar's actions. It's taking ESPN to tell us stuff that MSU should not only know but publicly reveal. PSU, problematic though their response to the Sandusky scandal was, at least went to the trouble of commissioning the Freeh report and allowing it to be publicized. Has anything like that been made public by MSU?

Even if, for the sake of argument, Simon could do nothing to change Nassar's action; even if she did everything she could to establish a culture of reporting and accountability; even if her hands are completely clean of any enablement of Nassar's actions: She has completely, totally, and utterly choked in the institution's response to this crisis. On the one hand, it has been a slowly evolving story over the past year; on the other, MSU has had an entire year to get ahead of this, to take responsibility, to address issues of culture and reveal to the public what went wrong.

Instead, she has dragged her feet and allowed ESPN to reveal much of their dirty laundry, bringing shame upon herself and her university. And she continues, in issues like these sentencing hearing non-appearances, to give the impression that MSU would rather things just went away.

It is now a huge, national scandal. Here in Minnesota it was discussed in the first hour of the biggest talk radio program in the state, in a week when the hometown Vikings are playing for a berth in the Super Bowl. Political pundits left and right are talking about it. The BBC is talking about it. MSU is getting dragged behind a 4x4 truck through the mud, and Simon watched them get tied to the rear bumper and did nothing.

And it appears that MSU constituents have had enough. 

Other than the victims, the first people on that campus to show any leadership.  Good on the State News.  Everybody in a position of power up there, get your shit together.

So, as long as we are on the subject of sexual predators, how about an update on Donnie  Corley and his compatriots in arms?  When is their trial to begin and how will the MSU administration survive that ordeal?  The football program is out of control as far as I am concerned and Izzo isn't that far removed from the Wonders Hall cover-up.  This fine University is going to end up costing the taxpayers hundreds of millions in settlement fees!

Detroit News and MSU's student government have joined the calls for Simon to resign.