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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

If by "cutting campus regulations on sexual assault" they mean revoking the Dear Colleague letter, then, well, good.

Is that what you think Liberty University is talking about?

Or could it maybe, oh I don't know, have something to do with this?

Liberty and its president, Jerry Falwell Jr., hired a man in the midst of ongoing litigation relating to the high-profile disgrace that forced him from his old job. McCaw ran the athletic program in which law firm Pepper Hamilton, tabbed by the school to perform an independent investigation, found “a failure to identify and respond to a pattern of sexual violence by a football player, to take action in response to reports of a sexual assault by multiple football players, and to take action in response to a report of dating violence.”

Evidently, that did not disqualify McCaw from landing the same position at Liberty.

Fifty-three percent of the roughly 15,000 students who attend Liberty University are women. How were they supposed to feel when they woke up Tuesday morning? How should their parents feel?

Liberty’s news release announcing McCaw’s hire touted Baylor’s five national titles, 58 Big 12 championships and six consecutive bowl games for the football team under his watch. For the women on Liberty’s campus — or for the parents whose daughters are there — is that competitive history supposed to matter more than the reason McCaw had to leave Baylor?

“If I had a daughter at Liberty University, I would certainly be concerned,” said Alexander Zalkin, Hernandez’s lawyer. “It almost speaks to this general culture of apathy at universities to this issue. The reason we’re in this mess to begin with is, universities did not take this issue of sexual assault seriously. You have this athletic director who is either incompetent to the way he supervised his program, or worse, I would argue, turned a blind eye. It baffles me that another university would trust him to run their athletic department at this point.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...lling-message/

Baylor’s interim president, David E. Garland, told a very different story to USA Today last month. “When you remove the president, the athletic director, and a successful and beloved football coach,” he said, “I think there’s incredible accountability.”

What we have here is a contradiction. I called Baylor University’s assistant vice president for communications, Lori W. Fogleman, and told her that Falwell had claimed to have conducted an investigation of the Baylor scandal.

Did Falwell’s people reach out to your people?

“I don’t know,” she replied. I suggested that perhaps her university might wish to be more forthcoming.

An hour or so later, she emailed me: “The university prefers not to comment.”

I was getting confused. So I called Len Stevens, a spokesman for Liberty University. He was a friendly fellow and quickly agreed that what we had here were conflicting accounts. Whom did your people talk to at Baylor, I asked. “We checked with Coach Grant Teaff, who knows lots of people there.”

Teaff, 83, is a football legend at Baylor. He last coached there in 1992 — 11 years before McCaw’s arrival.

Liberty University officials did not ask to speak with Pepper Hamilton, the law firm that conducted the investigation, Stevens said. But they did chat with a couple of members of the Baylor Board of Regents, several of whom are not at all pleased that nettlesome accusations of gang rapes and assaults had pushed out a beloved coach and athletic director.

I got off the telephone and reread Falwell’s statement, which nearly swelled with charity for McCaw. “He is a good man who found himself in a place where bad things were happening and decided to leave,” Falwell said, “and now Liberty is the beneficiary.”

God, or more to the point those people who desire a top football program and claim to hear his word, delivers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/s...-assaults.html

Baylor, which hired a law firm to conduct an investigation, said McCaw and Briles, among others, failed to report an alleged gang-rape in 2012 by five members of the football team against a female student-athlete to the university’s judicial affairs office.

Last week, two other women who reported being gang-raped by football players in 2012 reached settlements with the school, and Baylor’s regents said 17 women have reported domestic violence or sexual assault involving 19 football players since 2011. The school also is facing several federal lawsuits by women who say the university ignored or tried to suppress their allegations of sexual and physical assault.

“Obviously the recent months have been difficult and we’ve had some mistakes along the way as a university,” said Patulski, the Baylor assistant athletics director. “What I admire about Ian is he’s handled it with class, selflessly. You really haven’t heard anything from him and the truth of the matter is, he resigned because he wanted healing to happen at Baylor University.”
Liberty has had to handle its own run-ins with sexual assault allegations recently.

Two Flames football players were dismissed from the program and university this season after they were accused of sexual assault. The Lynchburg Police Department chose not to seek criminal charges against the two student-athletes.

Prior to the police department’s findings, the university released a statement naming the football players, including another who had transferred to the University of South Carolina, who were accused of sexual assault.

“There’s a big stack of regulations that the Department of Education created … and in the last several years, we’ve gone to great pains to make sure we’ve complied to the letter of those recommendations,” Falwell said.

McCaw said he aims to maintain that level of transparency at Liberty with the help of the compliance office.

“We’re certainly going to be very committed from a Title IX standpoint,” McCaw said. “I’m anxious to meet with the Title IX coordinator and make sure that we have everything in place to first and foremost prevent any incidents of interpersonal violence.

http://www.richmond.com/sports/colle...776bc267b.html

A big Stack of Regulations you say. Against sexual assault you say. That forced the current Liberty University athletic director to resign you say. That forced the new Athletic Director to resign from his old job you say.

I bet it's about the Dear Colleague letters.