https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/sports/ohio-state-michigan-state-sexual-assault.html
It puts in context the culture of the two schools who faced off.
Some excerpts:
It also makes it convenient to overlook the less-than-wholesome element of Ohio State’s 34-10 victory over Michigan State: that the sexual abuse scandals involving Lawrence G. Nassar, as a team doctor for U.S.A. Gymnastics and Michigan State, and Richard Strauss, as a team doctor at Ohio State, continue to look like the tip of cultural icebergs at these two universities.
The accusations of covering up and looking the other way, of protecting entrenched interests, continue to slow drip into the news cycle.
ESPN, in an examination this year of Title IX sexual assault complaints against athletes of nearly three dozen Power 5 schools for which it had data from 2012 to 2018, had familiar universities atop the leaderboard: Ohio State 36, Michigan State 35.
“That should cross people’s minds,” Bailey Kowalski, a recent Michigan State graduate who has accused three basketball players of sexually assaulting her as a freshman, said in a phone interview. “People need to feel uncomfortable. You shouldn’t be able to watch these teams play against each other and not have it come up at least once.”
Last Tuesday, the football staffer who filed the wrongful termination suit against Michigan State, Curtis Blackwell, issued another charge against the university: that a report it commissioned into how it handled a sexual assault case involving three football players was a whitewash.
It puts in context the culture of the two schools who faced off.
Some excerpts:
It also makes it convenient to overlook the less-than-wholesome element of Ohio State’s 34-10 victory over Michigan State: that the sexual abuse scandals involving Lawrence G. Nassar, as a team doctor for U.S.A. Gymnastics and Michigan State, and Richard Strauss, as a team doctor at Ohio State, continue to look like the tip of cultural icebergs at these two universities.
The accusations of covering up and looking the other way, of protecting entrenched interests, continue to slow drip into the news cycle.
ESPN, in an examination this year of Title IX sexual assault complaints against athletes of nearly three dozen Power 5 schools for which it had data from 2012 to 2018, had familiar universities atop the leaderboard: Ohio State 36, Michigan State 35.
“That should cross people’s minds,” Bailey Kowalski, a recent Michigan State graduate who has accused three basketball players of sexually assaulting her as a freshman, said in a phone interview. “People need to feel uncomfortable. You shouldn’t be able to watch these teams play against each other and not have it come up at least once.”
Last Tuesday, the football staffer who filed the wrongful termination suit against Michigan State, Curtis Blackwell, issued another charge against the university: that a report it commissioned into how it handled a sexual assault case involving three football players was a whitewash.
