Not even legit surprised at the comments nor that his pinned tweet is about being "burnt out" on politics in his football.
MSU taking the board of trustees to task:
Dear Members of the Michigan State University Community:
On January 31st, the Steering Committee sent an email to the voting faculty to get broad input on whether to pursue a vote of no confidence in the MSU Board of Trustees. On Feb 3rd, the voting faculty (Academic Congress) decided to place a vote of no confidence on the Faculty Senate agenda. Of the 2,776 voting faculty (AC), 1,907 votes were received with 1,653 YES, 192 NO, and 62 abstained. Because of the majority of total faculty votes and the importance and immediacy of this, the Steering Committee voted to have an emergency Faculty Senate meeting on Tuesday, February 13th. The Faculty Senate is the governing faculty body that deliberates and approves curriculum changes as well as many of the faculty statements and proposals. It is comprised of faculty representatives from all colleges. There are 70 voting faculty on the Senate and 5 non-voting members. On the 13th, there were 65 voting faculty present at the Senate meeting. After much discussion, the Faculty Senate voted (by iclicker) on "No Confidence" in the MSU Board of Trustees. The vote was in favor of a "No Confidence" censure. The secret ballot was 61 in favor and 4 against.
The Faculty who spoke at the meeting noted many reasons why they voted no confidence in the Board including:
A lack of oversight and supervision by the Board regarding the Nassar case, finding the Board complicit at worst or grossly negligent in oversight at best.
A lack of compassion for the survivors.
Failure, over a period of years, to listen to the stakeholders of Michigan State University, from students to faculty to deans.
Appointment of an Interim President, without discussing the selection with MSU stakeholders.
The Steering Committee will provide the Board of Trustees with a letter indicating the results of the vote, what the vote means and a call for their resignation. Since the motion the Faculty Senate voted did not include any mention of resignation, the call to resignation will just be coming from the Steering Committee, not the Faculty Senate as a whole.
We believe that proper procedure should allow for the Faculty Senate to deliberate and vote on the next course of action. The Faculty Senate will meet next week to do just this. The agenda item will be a discussion of the next steps following the Faculty Senate vote of no confidence. Among possible actions to this vote are a resignation request from the whole body, a recommendation to replace individual trustees, creating mechanisms to add faculty (and others) to the governing body, changing the responsibilities of the governing body, etc.
The discussion will be led by the members of the Faculty Senate and the results of that meeting will be communicated to the Board of Trustees and the faculty.
Please do not respond directly to this email. Any additional questions or concerns should be addressed to the At-Large Members of the MSU Steering Community. Their contact information can be found on the MSU Academic Governance website.
Thank you,
MSU Steering Committee
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/usa-swimming-sexual-abuse_us_5a8ad81fe4b004fc3194c4b2?ncid=engmodushpmg00000003
USA Swimming's Turn
USA Swimming's Turn
SCNG sifted through hundreds of USA Swimming memos, emails, court records, law enforcement interviews and congressional reports, and concluded that the organization has been “unwilling to take on its coach-centric power base and obsessed with protecting its image and brand.”
The investigation made five principal claims:
Top USA Swimming executives, officials and coaches knew of multiple sexual predators in coaching positions for years and did nothing to stop it.
Since 1997, at least 590 alleged victims of sexual abuse have been identified in the USA Swimming world. At least 252 coaches and officials have been arrested, charged or disciplined by USA Swimming for sexual assault or sexual misconduct against athletes under the age of 18. In four of the past six years, “at least 20 swim coaches have been arrested, charged or convicted for sex crimes ranging from rape, sexually assaulting a 3-year-old and 8-year-old, statutory rape, child pornography to secretly videotaping underage swimmers in locker-rooms,” the report notes.
At least 30 USA swim coaches or officials have been “flagged” by USA Swimming after being accused of or arrested for sexual abuse or child pornography by law enforcement. Most of the coaches and officials on the flagged list were able to continue working in the swim world. Some officials were not banned from the sport even after they had been convicted of felonies.
Over the years, USA Swimming has been quick to spend money to settle sexual abuse cases before they can hit the public radar. Between 2006 and 2016, USA Swimming spent $7,450,000 on legal fees. It’s not clear how much of that money was spent to settle sexual abuse cases, but SCNG notes that USA Swimming “arranged settlement agreements in at least three states with victims of alleged sexual abuse by swim coaches before the cases were even filed with a court.”
USA Swimming shelled out over $75,000 to lobbying firms to mobilize against California legislation that would have made it easer for sexual abuse survivors to sue their attackers and the organizations they worked for in civil suits.
Former Olympic swimmer Ariana Kukors recently said that her longtime coach Sean Hutchison sexually abused her for nearly a decade. Kukors, now 28, said Hutchison began “grooming” her when she was 13, after he became her coach at King Aquatic, a swimming club in Seattle.
• In the more than 20 years since Wielgus took charge of USA Swimming in July 1997, at least 252 swim coaches and officials have been arrested, charged by prosecutors, or disciplined by USAS for sexual abuse or misconduct against individuals under 18. Those coaches and officials have a total of at least 590 alleged victims, some of them abused while attending pre-school swim classes.
Wow. Burn it all down.
Breaking:
The Mavs have fired people and are having an independent investigation determine what other areas they lack in addition to the ones they already recognize.
The Mavs have fired people and are having an independent investigation determine what other areas they lack in addition to the ones they already recognize.
Holy crap......
I'm happy Cuban is doing something now, but like the article said, it's hard to understand how he didn't know what was going on
I'm happy Cuban is doing something now, but like the article said, it's hard to understand how he didn't know what was going on
At this meal, with ESPN crew members seated nearby, Ussery struck up an unusual conversation. As the woman recalls the exchange, Ussery claimed that he knew what she was going to do over the coming weekend. When the woman asked, confusedly, what Ussery meant, he smiled.
“You’re going to get gang-banged,” he asserted, “aren’t you?”
“No,” the woman responded, caught off-guard. “Actually, I’m going to the movies with friends.”
“No,” Ussery insisted. “You’re definitely getting gang-banged.”
i couldnt even fix my brain to come up something so brazen 1v1 let alone at a public dinner
you trying to tell me you can't tell your coworkers that they're getting gangbanged over company dinners?
At least the players are good people's. Man this sucks to read, but it isn't a drop in the bucket compared to what those ladies had to go through :(.
Here's the Mavs response. It went up before the SI article did
https://www.mavs.com/statement-from-dallas-mavericks-on-sports-illustrated-article/
https://www.mavs.com/statement-from-dallas-mavericks-on-sports-illustrated-article/
Am I the only one who can't read PR statements? Or if I do I only get more pissed off?
Yadda yadda, we regret nothing but let's pretend we do because we got caught being absolutely disgusting and fucked up shitheads. The end.
Yadda yadda, we regret nothing but let's pretend we do because we got caught being absolutely disgusting and fucked up shitheads. The end.
cuban saying he didn't know about a guy arrested on his facility lol
hire a guy with two domestic abuse arrests and play dumb brehs
hire a guy with two domestic abuse arrests and play dumb brehs
By DY_nasty Go To Postcuban saying he didn't know about a guy arrested on his facility lolThey got better and more thorough background checks for places that hire part time on minimum wage in some places. This shit. Yeah I mad. This society is fucking trash.
hire a guy with two domestic abuse arrests and play dumb brehs
So this motherfucker does this to one woman
There is no proper way to convey how fucked up these people are. Just no real vocabulary. We have all these fucking judgmental pejoratives for people just doin' whatever. But when it comes to these pieces of shit, there is such a lack of verbose language directed at being a smug enabling piece of shit.
The woman, according to the report, suffered a fractured right wrist and bruises on her arms and chest in the altercation.Then does this
After his plea, Sneed dated a Mavericks colleague, a relationship the two made public in keeping with the team’s fraternization policies. Multiple sources tell SI that in 2014 the couple had a dispute and Sneed turned violent, hitting the woman.
Her face swollen, she went to work but within days reported the incident to her immediate supervisor and to Pittman.
Sneed continued with the Mavericks. He co-hosted Fox Sports Southwest’s “Mavs Insider” weekly television show until August of 2017 and remained the beat writer for Mavs.com. Asked why the team would continue employing Sneed when, already having pled guilty to criminal charges for violence against one woman, he allegedly physically assaulted another woman—who was also a team employee— Pittman declined comment. After being asked for comment on the Sneed situation on Monday, Cuban told SI that he had just fired Pittman and suspended Sneed. “I felt sick to my stomach,” the owner said. The next day, Sneed was fired, a move the Mavs alluded to in a statement released late Tuesday evening.Oh but Cuban don't know but he knew enough to do that but he didn't know.
There is no proper way to convey how fucked up these people are. Just no real vocabulary. We have all these fucking judgmental pejoratives for people just doin' whatever. But when it comes to these pieces of shit, there is such a lack of verbose language directed at being a smug enabling piece of shit.
Lol. Saying "I didn't know" is pretty damning in and of itself lol.
Basically admits to what the NCAA would call "lack of institutional control"
Basically admits to what the NCAA would call "lack of institutional control"
By HasphatsAnts Go To PostLol. Saying "I didn't know" is pretty damning in and of itself lol.Was there ever any doubt?
Basically admits to what the NCAA would call "lack of institutional control"
By Random Ass Username Go To PostAm I the only one who can't read PR statements? Or if I do I only get more pissed off?I only get mad because I went to school for PR and it's infuriating because of how terrible most of them are. Meanwhile I've been banging my head against the wall trying to get a job in the industry. And then I look at the staff pages and it makes total sense...
Yadda yadda, we regret nothing but let's pretend we do because we got caught being absolutely disgusting and fucked up shitheads. The end.
But that's a story for another day.
"but I didn't want to just fire him, because then he would go out there and get hired again and do it somewhere else."
"to just fire him"
So your employees are "just" SOL dude?
This assclown.
"to just fire him"
So your employees are "just" SOL dude?
This assclown.
I kinda get his thought process? But like you have to ignore everybody else and think so myopically to somehow reach that conclusion. It really is stupid.
Nah he's on some shit lol. Dude threatens to fire anyone on the spot for potentially leaking a draft pick, but he's trying raise a scumbag and pay him at the same time?
- I cannot attend this meeting.
- Why?
- My chaperone is unavailable at that time.
- What?
- The terms of my current employment do not permit me to be alone with female co-workers.
- Oh. That's normal.
- Why?
- My chaperone is unavailable at that time.
- What?
- The terms of my current employment do not permit me to be alone with female co-workers.
- Oh. That's normal.
By DY_nasty Go To PostNah he's on some shit lol. Dude threatens to fire anyone on the spot for potentially leaking a draft pick, but he's trying raise a scumbag and pay him at the same time?He wrote up a Mike Pence contract for him. What kind of shit is that?
Not a perpetrator, but a victim: https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/brendan-fraser-claims-sexually-assaulted-former-hollywood-foreign-press-association-president/
Now, in a GQ interview published on Thursday, February 22, the 49-year-old revealed the reason he decided to step out of the spotlight. In the piece, Fraser claims that former Hollywood Foreign Press Association president Philip Berk sexually assaulted him in the summer of 2003 during a luncheon in Beverly Hills.
Hollywood’s Sexual Misconduct Scandals
According to Fraser, as he and Berk shook hands, “His left hand reaches around, grabs my ass cheek, and one of his fingers touches me in the taint. And he starts moving it around.” The alleged incident left Fraser shaken.
“I felt ill,” he said. “I felt like a little kid. I felt like there was a ball in my throat. I thought I was going to cry. I felt like someone had thrown invisible paint on me.”
By reilo Go To Post
holy fuck, what?
Honestly, it sounds awful on paper, but those ARE pretty strong steps, particularly straight up not allowing him to be alone with another woman at work.
By Dark PhaZe Go To PostHonestly, it sounds awful on paper, but those ARE pretty strong steps, particularly straight up not allowing him to be alone with another woman at work.a strong step is firing someone
i always laugh when i see people doing shit that we don't even get to do in the field. i don't even think there's paperwork that exists which restricts a service member from being around the opposite sex lol. how are you maintaining a professional environment when you've got a guy on cooties restriction?
Tabletop rpg group had an accusation, treated it seriously, developed a new process to investigate it with as little bias as possible, and published the results.
http://oneshotpodcast.com/uncategorized/harassment-investigation-stament/
http://oneshotpodcast.com/uncategorized/harassment-investigation-stament/
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43261994
An 18-year-old university athlete has become the first male gymnast to say in a lawsuit that he was abused by convicted pedophile Larry Nassar.
Jacob Moore alleged as part of a joint civil lawsuit that Nassar touched his genitals under the guise of treating his shoulder injury with acupuncture.
Mr Moores' lawsuit alleges that Nassar brought him to his basement and treated his shoulder injury with "acupuncture in his pubic area and in and around his genitalia".
It also states that Nassar "pulled down Moore's pants, exposing his genitalia" to an underage female gymnast who was also present.
https://deadspin.com/former-espn-employee-who-accused-john-buccigross-of-sex-1823525761
Adrienne Lawrence (the accuser from above) also dropped this nugget in the same suit:
[...]
Like her original complaint, this suit says that ESPN employees perpetuate a culture in which female employees are “marked” and “groomed” by male colleagues who are interested in pursuing sexual relationships. The suit contains specific allegations of sexual harassment against SportsCenter host John Buccigross. It includes text message exchanges, which were previously published by the Globe, in which Buccigross calls Lawrence “doll” and “dollface” and shares a shirtless photo of himself.
[...]
Adrienne Lawrence (the accuser from above) also dropped this nugget in the same suit:
Buccigross twill be off TV soon enough. I was surprised ESPN put him back on TV after the selfie texts originally came out..
And this a wonderful mess:
And this a wonderful mess:
Bomani name thrown in now...for looking at her. Really sounds like she's just throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.
In May 2011, a woman contacted the Portland Police Bureau to make an allegation against Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team and one of the most visible figures in entertainment and sports.
Her complaint? That Cuban had sexually assaulted her late one night at an Old Town nightclub.
While they smiled for the camera, she claimed, he thrust his hand down the back of her jeans and penetrated her vagina with his finger.http://www.wweek.com/news/2018/03/06/in-2011-portland-police-investigated-a-sexual-assault-complaint-against-billionaire-mark-cuban-he-wasnt-charged-heres-what-happened/
A week after the interview, two urologists on the faculty of the George Washington University Medical School in Washington, D.C., provided Houze a written opinion that Cuban could not physically have committed the crime of which he was accused.Who paid these dudes.
"[Cuban] is a large male with large hands, making penetration without lubrication of the woman in the standing position virtually impossible," the doctors wrote.
"Not enough evidence to support the claim" is basically the police just outright saying they don't believe the woman.
No but seriously "he's too big and tall to do this from a standing angle" is the most bullshit statement of the century and along with "without lubrication" it just goes into the stratosphere. And from medical "practitioners"? The fuck. Do they know what tampons are and how they work?
The former MSU dead has been arrested for charges stemming from the Nassar case: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gymnastics-usa-nassar/former-michigan-state-dean-faces-charges-stemming-from-nassar-scandal-idUSKBN1H310J