14 MSU Staffers Were Warned of Nassar (At Least One Complaint Reached President)
EXCLUSIVE: What #MichiganState knew about Larry Nassar. https://t.co/uRCIWotFX6 via @detroitnews #nassar
— Kim Kozlowski (@kimberkoz) January 18, 2018
January 18th, 2018 at 1:30 PM ^
EXCLUSIVE: What #MichiganState knew about Larry Nassar. https://t.co/uRCIWotFX6 via @detroitnews #nassar
— Kim Kozlowski (@kimberkoz) January 18, 2018
January 18th, 2018 at 1:52 PM ^
This is flat out horrific. That article hurt my stomache to read. At this point it doesn't matter whether she knew the specifics of the allegations. If even a whisper or a memo passed her desk insinuating some sort of misconduct involving Nassar, and she didn't get to the bottom of it, she is as guilty as the rest.
Seriously, wtf. This is the stuff of nightmares. The fact that those poor girls informed so many people, who did nothing, is unbelievable.
January 18th, 2018 at 3:06 PM ^
you preside over is involved in something really ugly, you resign for honor's sake, as the person who is ultimately in charge. It is hard for me to understand why Simon has yet to do this.
I had a moment of glee early on at how this might hurt MSU; that goes away pretty fast if you try to read these investigative pieces. I have failed to get through several of them in the last two days. One of the things that seems connected is that there was a general atmosphere of abuse by coaches of these young women and girl; some of them saw Nassar as the sweet guy they went to for healing after being around screaming coaches all day long, according to the long piece at ESPN yesterday. Makes you feel that the whole deal is pretty rotten.
January 18th, 2018 at 3:35 PM ^
"Honor," "resposibility," "integrity," and the like are sorely lacking today.
January 18th, 2018 at 8:10 PM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 3:18 PM ^
Also, it happened on her and Hollis's watch. Administrators have taken responsibility or otherwise been ousted for a lot less. If the protocol was inadequate, that's ultimately on them regardless of what they knew.
January 18th, 2018 at 4:24 PM ^
of I did not receive the report but had been notified. My god if someone on your staff is being investigated you would think you would look into it and find out what is going on. She needs to step down or be fired.
January 18th, 2018 at 10:11 PM ^
One of Simon's quotes: "in the case of medical procedures, those are ones that if you're president, there's a lot of space between you and what happens in a clinic..."
Sorry, if you are president you are responsible for everything that happens on your watch. Take responsibility. Resign...and then be investigated by law enforcement.
January 18th, 2018 at 1:32 PM ^
Simon needs to go. It is a joke how MSU has handled this.
January 18th, 2018 at 1:45 PM ^
Story from this morning about the growing pressure on Michigan State president Lou Anna Simon. https://t.co/ganQzxYpyQ
— Dan Murphy (@DanMurphyESPN) January 18, 2018
Larissa Boyce is scheduled to speak today. She asked MSU pres Lou Anna Simon to attend in person as a favor. She says Simon told her she didn't think it would fit into her schedule.
— Dan Murphy (@DanMurphyESPN) January 18, 2018
Boyce is the woman who says she told MSU coach Kathie Klages about Nassar's abuse 20 years ago.
January 18th, 2018 at 2:07 PM ^
What a fucking coward Simon is. Won't even show her face to see the damage her greed and negligence wrought. Hope she, and a whole pile of other complicit MSU admins, ends up in jail just like the Penn State shitheads.
January 18th, 2018 at 2:19 PM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 3:37 PM ^
Simon was also questioned by one of the victims who criticized her for not taking action earlier. Very compellig video.
I connotate this to the lights being turned on and the cockroaches are scurrying for cover. Hopefully as many as possible (who were informed of this) are fired. Alas they will probably get a job at some other university though.
January 18th, 2018 at 4:22 PM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 2:23 PM ^
Attempting to reconcile her past failures and provide some comfort to a victim and numerous others who she may or may not have been able to prevent? Sorry wouldn't fit into her schedule. WTF is more important than that?!? That might be the weakest excuse for cowardice I have ever heard. JoePa has company.
January 18th, 2018 at 3:24 PM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 4:37 PM ^
...that sees the striking resemblance to Al Franken
January 18th, 2018 at 1:47 PM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 2:04 PM ^
when Michigan grads (including the Michigan state house of reps who are pushing for sanctions) have to stand up for MSU grads/students because of the epic failure of someone, anyone there, to do the right thing.
January 18th, 2018 at 3:17 PM ^
I'm pretty damn confident MSU students and graduates are pretty pissed off about this.
It's not on the students and the graduates to do the right thing. It's on the administration.
January 18th, 2018 at 1:32 PM ^
Every new article written is more scathing and reveals more horror. Seems like the only way MSU will be on the hook is if the press keeps rolling. Hopefully justice is served.
January 18th, 2018 at 1:41 PM ^
They've successfully hidden thier complicity for decades, but those days are over. The press has MSU in their sights now and won't let go. It's a shame Michael Rosenberg isn't still around because I'm sure he could make up some juicy tidbits (not that they're needed).
January 18th, 2018 at 2:38 PM ^
Nassar was stretching?
January 18th, 2018 at 1:46 PM ^
has traction now. Michigan State needs to start making moves or the fallout from this could get very very bad from a lot of different directions. I am not saying this to "delight in their hardship" as a "rivalry thing," but simply as a person and concerned Michigan citizen with family who are at or have graduated from State. They seem to think that dismissing Simon and Hollis would be bad from a legal perspective. It doesn't matter at this point. They are going to pay out so much it will make your head spin regardless of what they do now. Simon and Mark Hollis need to be fired immediately as step 1, regardless of what happens after that. Pandora's box has been opened and there is no closing it. They need to move, now.
January 18th, 2018 at 2:15 PM ^
If that's what the numbskulls on the MSU Board of Trustees are truly thinking, then it's no wonder it's a dumpster fire up there.
They truly seem to believe that just hunkering down on the tracks will save them because surely that fifty-ton locomotive bearing down in them will stop in time.
January 18th, 2018 at 2:26 PM ^
Yeah. Not counting on anything out this guy.
"MSU Trustee Mitch Lyons arraigned on misdemeanor assault and battery charges - 1/12/2018"
http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/01/msu_trustee_arraigned_on_mi…
January 18th, 2018 at 1:36 PM ^
So the people ,leading the inquiry internally said nobody at MSU knew, yet now their saying all these reports were reported to people at MSU, including Simon herself. What a joke
January 18th, 2018 at 1:41 PM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 1:55 PM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 1:56 PM ^
But this is the deal IMO: The lawyers were hired to protect the upper echelons. What they found was so damaging that the upper echelons told them to shut it down, wrote no report and destroy the notes. And of course, all this is privileged (until the successor administration releases it all). Now the firewall has been breached and it will be even worse for the upper echelons then disclosure would have been. There are felony convictions and jail time coming.
January 18th, 2018 at 1:36 PM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 1:38 PM ^
or anyone else's staffers.
January 18th, 2018 at 1:38 PM ^
As Penn State.
January 18th, 2018 at 2:27 PM ^
who have come forward.
The only reason Penn State registered higher on the shock scale is because of Joe Paterno being involved, and the fact it was boys being abused.
January 18th, 2018 at 4:16 PM ^
1 victim committed suicide and another victim's father committed suicide. In addition to all of the victims of abuse there are parents who took their children to be abused and there are people that don't know if they were abused because they were too young to understand the difference. It's horrible.
January 18th, 2018 at 4:29 PM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 2:31 PM ^
This is worse than Penn State.
January 18th, 2018 at 3:52 PM ^
Per court testimony (see here).
Not trying to weigh in on which is worse, as I don't think that's important.
January 18th, 2018 at 4:14 PM ^
PSU wasn't just one incident. Go read the initial Grand Jury report--it's not long; shouldnt take more than a half hour to read. There were many victims.
The fact that you don't know this and are making judgments is a problem.
To everyone: please don't judge if you don't have at least most of the facts.
January 18th, 2018 at 4:54 PM ^
I'm not saying there was a single victim or a single incident. I said that there was a single REPORTED incident. Vs 8 women REPORTING incidents for MSU.
I apologize for not making that more clear. But I'm not ignorant about what happened at PSU.
January 18th, 2018 at 1:39 PM ^
Great summation here - this is actually the end of a well-written thread too, so check the whole thing out:
So, in short: MSU knew about allegations of sexual abuse of athletes against Nassar as early as 1997, and MSU knew about Nassar’s abuse of children in 2004, and MSU put notes in his personnel file about restrictions on his practice in 2014.
— Jane Coaston (@cjane87) January 18, 2018
But didn’t stop him.
January 18th, 2018 at 1:42 PM ^
this honestly reads to me like, "if you're going to sexually assault somebody Larry, make sure you're following the proper procedures." I can't wrap my head around how this happens
January 18th, 2018 at 1:44 PM ^
The State News (MSU student paper) is calling for Simon to resign now. People are finally waking up.
January 18th, 2018 at 4:36 PM ^
January 18th, 2018 at 1:44 PM ^
And somehow Mark Hollis will survive this mess.
January 18th, 2018 at 1:47 PM ^
think so.
January 18th, 2018 at 1:44 PM ^
Mark Hollis ---SEE YA