AlaskanFAN 1,665 Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 Reports: MSU President Lou Anna Simon stepping down this week By Lauren Gibbons lgibbon2@mlive.com Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon will be resigning from her positiReports: MSU President Lou Anna Simon stepping down this weekon this week, according to multiple reports. The State News, MSU's college newspaper, first reported Simon would step down this week, citing an anonymous source familiar with her plans. The Detroit Free Press has since reported that Simon would resign Thursday, citing multiple sources. Simon, who has been president since former MSU president Peter McPherson stepped down in 2004, has worked with the university in various capacities since the 1970s. She is the university's first female president. Since ex-MSU doctor Larry Nassar's sentencing hearing began, Simon has faced calls for resignation from state and federal politicians, victims and members of the public. 156 victims either spoke or submitted statements during Nassar's trial detailing the systemic abuse they faced at the hands of Nassar, a former MSU doctor famed for his work with elite gymnasts. Many of them specifically questioned the handling of prior complaints by MSU and other institutions, such as USA Gymnastics and the Dimondale gymnastics club Twistars. Nassar was sentenced to 40 to 175 years on seven counts of criminal sexual abuse in Ingham County Circuit Court Wednesday. He faces sentencing on three more counts in Eaton County Circuit Court next week. After the MSU Board of Trustees put out a statement of support for Simon Friday, Trustee Mitch Lyons came out with a statement of his own in disagreement where he asked Simon to step down. The news comes shortly after a second MSU trustee, Dianne Byrum, and U.S. Sens. Gary Peters and Debbie Stabenow called for her resignation. ********************************************** While on the other hand MSU Board of Trustee member Joel Ferguson is the D-Bag of the year already in 2018. http://michiganradio.org/post/msu-trustee-ferguson-slammed-comments-about-nassar-thing A Michigan State University trustee is drawing strong rebuke for his recent comments about the Larry Nassar sexual abuse case. Trustee Joel Ferguson was interviewed Monday on WVFN AM 730. You can listen to the entire interview here. Ferguson started talking about MSU President Lou Anna Simon – who’s facing calls to resign because MSU failed to pursue complaints about abuse by Nassar. "There's so many more things going [on] at the university than just this Nassar thing," - MSU Trustee Joel Ferguson Ferguson said it only took trustees ten minutes at a five-hour meeting last week to decide Simon should stay on the job. “We unanimously decided in that meeting right away that ... we were going to support her staying as the President,” Ferguson said. “Because there’s so many more things going on at the university then this Nassar thing." On social media, Ferguson’s comments were criticized as “horrifying” and tone-deaf. His comments come as more than 100 women deliver so-called victim impact statements in court about Nassar’s abuse. CREDIT TWITTER Despite the mounting pressure on Simon – according to the Lansing State Journal, MSU’s Faculty Senate Tuesday afternoon called for a vote of no-confidence in Simon – Ferguson says there’s no way she’s going to get pushed out. “That will not happen, period,” Ferguson said in the interview. “She’s a fighter and ... what she’s done for the university, she’s not going to get run out of there by what somebody else did.” Sam Singh, the Democratic leader of the Michigan State House of Representatives, is calling on Ferguson to resign. Fellow MSU trustee Mitch Lyons said in a statement Tuesday that he remembers last week's meeting differently then Ferguson. Lyons’ statement says he recalls discussing Simon’s status and the Larry Nassar case for “the majority” of the five-hour meeting. Lyons has previously also called on Simon to resign. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowerOfDixieland 3,225 Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 Michigan State in all out damage control mode as though they had no idea. Simon stepping down is too little too late...criminal charges should be forthcoming. Meanwhile the nutless and gutless NCAA has finally been shamed into action: "The N.C.A.A. sent a letter of inquiry to Michigan State University, formally opening an investigation into how the university handled the case of Lawrence G. Nassar, the doctor who sexually assaulted scores of female athletes." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/sports/michigan-state-ncaa-investigation.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AU64 10,122 Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 AD gone as of today it seems..... So...what can / should the NCAA do to MSU since this seemed to involve an employee but not MSU students as best I can tell? I'm thinking the Penn State type penalties with big fines is not gonna happen again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aufan57 922 Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 More problems for Michigan State coaches Quote Report: Michigan St. Suppressed Allegations Involving Sports Beyond Larry Nassar MIKE CHIARI JANUARY 26, 2018 In recent years, Michigan State has suppressed information related to sexual assault allegations made against members of the football and basketball teams, according to a report released Friday by Paula Lavigneof ESPN's Outside the Lines. The report comes after president Lou Anna Simon announced her resignation Wednesday and athletic director Mark Hollis announced his retirement Friday in the wake of former MSU physician Larry Nassar's sentencing to 40 to 175 years in prison for sexual abuse during his time as a doctor for both Michigan State and USA Gymnastics. Outside The Lines ✔@OTLonESPN Hear directly from women who went up against Michigan State after violent or sexual assaults by athletes, as well as a former counselor at the university who says this could've been stopped - tonight on the 6p edition of @SportsCenter and Sunday at 9a ET on @E60. 1:51 PM - Jan 26, 2018 99 Replies 8585 Retweets 7777 likes Per Lavigne, Michigan State's history of inaction stretches beyond incidents involving Nassar. Lavigne reported that Michigan State has lost attempts in court to withhold the names of athletes in campus police records three times over the past three years, but many of the incident reports have had so much information deleted from them that they are of little use. She also laid out several sexual abuse allegations made against members of the football and basketball teams during the respective tenures of head football coach Mark Dantonio and head basketball coach Tom Izzo. Former Michigan State sexual assault counselor Lauren Allswede disagreed with recent assertions that there is no issue with sexual assault at MSU: "A lot of the statements that are coming out now ... from Mark Hollis or administration claiming there's no rape culture, is misleading. When there's multiple reports against specific programs, that needs to be followed up on. That needs to be addressed. It's not a coincidence." At least 16 football players have been accused of sexual assault or violence against women since Dantonio became head coach in 2007. In 2014, Michigan State redacted players' names when ESPN requested police reports involving football and basketball players. MSU was required to provide the names by a judge, and the school lost a lawsuit against ESPN last year when the company requested additional records. With regard to the basketball team, former Spartans player and undergraduate student-assistant coach Travis Walton was accused of punching a female Michigan State student in the face at a bar in 2010, and it was also alleged that he sexually assaulted a different female MSU student along with two Spartan basketball players. While Walton was fired, per a letter written by Allswede, little action was taken against the players. Walton, however, said he didn't coach at MSU in 2010 because he played professional basketball in Europe and that he was surprised by the rape allegations. Lavigne also wrote about a 2010 allegation by former Michigan State student Carolyn Schaner, who said she was raped by then-MSU basketball recruits Adreian Payne and Keith Appling. She said Payne and Appling penetrated her "vaginally, anally and orally" despite her telling them to stop. In a police video obtained by ESPN, Payne told police he could "understand how she would feel that she was not free to leave." Appling told ESPN last year that the encounter was consensual and that he never heard Schaner tell them to stop. Per Lavigne, no charges were filed, and neither Payne nor Appling was disciplined for the alleged incident. With regard to the culture at MSU, Schaner said: "They're not protecting students at all except the ones that are doing what is wrong. I really felt like I was the only one that this has happened to, and I find out, no, it actually isn't that uncommon." Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad_ATX 13,654 Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 The OTL report is damning. Also, that Detroit Free Press article linked in the tweet was written by a friend of mine. Used to live in Lansing and have been told by media friends to expect more to come out. I'm not 100% shocked by any of this. There were rape allegations by hockey players about a decade ago that, if I remember correctly, went nowhere. And that school worships Izzo and the basketball program like big SEC schools do with football, so it would make sense that stuff got covered up to protect hoops and Izzo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
augolf1716 21,096 Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 This is going to get a lot worst before its over. A lot........................imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowerOfDixieland 3,225 Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Meanwhile back in Indianapolis.... "NCAA president Mark Emmert was specifically alerted in November 2010 — six months after he was hired as the organization's president — to 37 reports involving Michigan State athletes sexually assaulting women." https://theathletic.com/223555/2018/01/26/ncaa-president-mark-emmert-was-alerted-to-michigan-state-sexual-assault-reports-in-2010/ This could finally be the end of one of the biggest scumbags ever involved with athletics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AU64 10,122 Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 1 hour ago, PowerOfDixieland said: Meanwhile back in Indianapolis.... "NCAA president Mark Emmert was specifically alerted in November 2010 — six months after he was hired as the organization's president — to 37 reports involving Michigan State athletes sexually assaulting women." https://theathletic.com/223555/2018/01/26/ncaa-president-mark-emmert-was-alerted-to-michigan-state-sexual-assault-reports-in-2010/ This could finally be the end of one of the biggest scumbags ever involved with athletics. Yep...this could flow up hill to the NCAA from the tone of this little clip....especially after Emmert's rather mild reaction recently to the media question about the trial. . Time for a shake-up there and this case might be what's necessary to get some action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUIH1 1,515 Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 18 hours ago, augolf1716 said: This is going to get a lot worst before its over. A lot........................imo Both Izzo and Dantonio could be going down. wde Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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