Comments on: BHGP ON FERENTZ: RESIGN

By: Slow, Fat and White

Slow, Fat and White — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:07:37 +0000

33 and 36 are dead on. The University policy to a report of sexual assault should be to immediately contact the police. Full Stop. No formal versus informal investigation, no University procedures — CALL THE FREAKING POLICE. From there they can do any investigation they want but a sexual assault is a criminal matter, not an academic one.

By: Albino Tornado

Albino Tornado — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:34:58 +0000

Meatybob –

Correct me if you’re wrong, but you’re saying that “that sleaze bag Osborne” and Nebraska’s athletic department doesn’t deserve “credit” for not covering up the Larry Phillips situation because they didn’t get a chance to cover it up.

Can’t have it both ways. Either you demonstrate character by not covering something up — or at least don’t fuck it up worse by trying to close the barn doors once the horses are out — or you didn’t. You can disagree with LP’s suspension and/or reinstatement; that’s as much a matter of personal conscience. However, you can’t argue that the athletic department covered up anything or even wanted to.

And Scott Frost couldn’t have untied himself and gotten out of the closet to call the cops that fast on his own. I think McEwen’s neighbors called the cops, considering they couldn’t really miss the whoopin’ goin’ on in the hallway.

By: Papa Lou BSU

Papa Lou BSU — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:33:09 +0000

bj: “By condoning UI�s in-house investigation, she assumes part of he blame, which adds a whole new level of suck to he already huge pile.”

Of course, there are those who think that any university athletic dept. that would have an “in-house” response to a student being sexually assaulted that doesn’t have “call the police right fucking now” as Option #1 deserves the full brunt of public anger and outrage associated with such a morally bankrupt suggestion.

(Further, those of us who are parents can understand being a bit confused by seemingly-reassuring authority figures at our child’s school in the immediate wake of our son or daughter being the victim of a violent crime, and tend to apportion the blame accordingly…)

By: Way Up North

Way Up North — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:33:01 +0000

If only Gary Barta were more like Tred Barta, this never would have happened.

By: Yinka Double Dare

Yinka Double Dare — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:28:07 +0000

Dear University of Iowa,

If you decide to fire your President, you can have Mary Sue Coleman back. Please.

Best regards,

Michigan students during MSC’s reign

P.S. If you don’t want to take someone who currently has a President job, I hear Martin Jischke is available.

By: hobeg8r

hobeg8r — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:22:11 +0000

RJ – if there is ANY unversity which has a policy of telling a young woman who claims to have been sexually assaulted that it will conduct an internal investigation of the alleged crime – instead of IMMEDIATELY calling the police – then, it does not deserve to be in business of educating our children – let alone operate a football team. [Pitchfork raised].

From the University of Iowa Preamble to its Code of Conduct: “The University of Iowa has a deep respect for the intrinsic value of each human being, and a steadfast commitment to promoting and protecting human rights on its Iowa City campus, in its surrounding community, and beyond.”

By: bj

bj — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:21:51 +0000

Who has the greater obligation to the victim: the university or her family? If the victim was your daughter, sister, girlfriend, whatever, would you even dream of letting her NOT go to the police? Obviously, the university handled this about as poorly as they possibly could, but the victim’s mother did her a huge disservice by allowing her to take he so-called informal route. By condoning UI’s in-house investigation, she assumes part of he blame, which adds a whole new level of suck to he already huge pile.

By: blon57

blon57 — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:19:59 +0000

#22- I am sure she has no reason to shift blame regarding her daughter being wasted in a dorm room with 2 dudes at 3AM.

So, if you leave a bar, drunk and happen to walk down the wrong street, get mugged, shot, etc. you deserve it? You may have made a bad decision about the alcohol consumption, but you do not deserve to be the victim of a crime.

By: Crabapple Buck

Crabapple Buck — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:19:05 +0000

If they need a new AD with Big Ten experience, Rick Greenspan is available. He’ll bring in Kelvin Sampson to get the basketball team going and then hire Gary Barnett to put a dress on that pig of a football team. Good times ahead!

By: BamaTaxMan

BamaTaxMan — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:07:38 +0000

After twenty years of watching consistently high level incompetence from the Alabama athletic department (please don’t ask for a list) occasionaly interrupted by momentary lapses of intelligence, I thought I’d seen/heard everything.

Then I read this, and now I am both replused and relieved. Repulsed that this could happen at any university, and relieved that (for once) it’s not Alabama – we only have a problem with drug dealers.

By: Chips O'Toole

Chips O'Toole — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:03:49 +0000

Ferentz should be forced to accept a contract buyout comprised entirely of Chizik Nickels.

By: meatybob

meatybob — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:58:07 +0000

GD, “think”, not “thing”.

By: meatybob

meatybob — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:57:20 +0000

Albino,

Oh, I know that Larry wasn’t giving out love taps to McKeon, but no cover up by the admin. (if true) One may thing that Osborne is a slease bag, but he is an upfront slease bag.

However, to retort my own argument, I don’t think that the Neb athletic departmet really had a chance to cover this up, even if they wanted too. Scott Frost got the cops there pretty quick.

By: mlmintampa

mlmintampa — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:56:03 +0000

Re 22: It’s cover up plus a lack of sensitivity towards the reported victim. The university has been more delicate with the men who reportedly did these actions. It’s the opposite of the real world. Had this been two guys who lived on a street three doors down form the woman, their house would have been vandalized and they’d be in a holding cell waiting trial.

By: White Speed Recieiver

White Speed Recieiver — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:47:39 +0000

RJ, if I were you I’d get running before the rest of the mob shows up with the torches and pitchforks.

Read the article again. Then read some of the other articles on the paper’s website. If that isn’t straightforward investigative journalism, I don’t know what is.