BrooksBearLives said:
Y'all know I work in Higher Ed and have a different perspective on this (along with a few others on the board).
This is just getting started. MSU ****ed this up in a way that will make every single decision made by Baylor look like geniuses.
They took the same cynical approach many thought we should have.
It is sincerely just getting started.
Thing is, if it weren't for the Larry creep getting away with abusing young girls for 30 years, we would not be hearing about football and basketball right now at MSU, as they would just blend into the many other cases that are rampant on all college campuses in America. Sure they might get a mention, but not the Baylor treatment.
For Penn State it took a multi-decade pedofile, with free campus access for them to get attention, for MSU it took a multi decade pedofile, with free campus access for them to get them attention.
For Baylor they were plunged into the fire, from the same type of activity that goes on at every campus in America, young folks go out, or get together, get drunk, get wild, get into situations that end up being assault or alleged assault, then people who are ill equiped, or not equiped at all to handle the situation, predictable botch the situation. That happens everywhere.
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The growing backlog of federal Title IX investigations into colleges and universities has now topped 300, but many people, including students at the schools under scrutiny, aren't aware of those reviews.
As of Wednesday, there were 246 ongoing investigations by the U.S. Department of Education into how 195 colleges and universities handle sexual assault reports under the gender equity law.
A Freedom of Information Act request by The Huffington Post revealed another 68 Title IX investigations into how 61 colleges handle sexual harassment cases. This puts the total number of Title IX investigations officially dealing with sexual harassment at 315. (Under civil rights statutes, sexual assault is defined as an extreme form of sexual harassment.)
What happened at Penn State and MSU does not.