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per CBS:
There is rarely justice when it comes to crime on America’s college campuses, particularly when it comes to violence against women and more specifically when the alleged perpetrator is an athlete — a member of a protected class that can act with impunity.
And while it undoubtedly damns with faint praise to acknowledge proper handling of such things if and when it happens, so be it.
The University of Minnesota fired head football coach Tracy Claeys and almost his entire staff Tuesday. The decision was almost entirely due to his public backing of players in their wrongheaded protest over the school’s investigation of a sexual assault that resulted in the suspension of 10 Gophers players. In the midst of the mutiny, Claeys tweeted “Have never been more proud of our kids.”
These “kids” were aligning themselves against an alleged victim, misunderstanding completely the concept of due process, proving ignorant of the difference between criminal prosecution and university policy pursuant to federal law, and only relenting when they finally cared enough to ask what the inquest actually concluded. It was a loud and insulting national embarrassment, and the coach paid the price for taking the wrong side.
This almost never happens, and a realist could note correctly that it might not have gone down this way here if Claeys were someone else, or if the team had been 19-0 on his watch instead of 11-8.
http://sports.cbslocal.com/2017/01/04/bernstein-good-for-minnesota/
Go Gophers!!
There is rarely justice when it comes to crime on America’s college campuses, particularly when it comes to violence against women and more specifically when the alleged perpetrator is an athlete — a member of a protected class that can act with impunity.
And while it undoubtedly damns with faint praise to acknowledge proper handling of such things if and when it happens, so be it.
The University of Minnesota fired head football coach Tracy Claeys and almost his entire staff Tuesday. The decision was almost entirely due to his public backing of players in their wrongheaded protest over the school’s investigation of a sexual assault that resulted in the suspension of 10 Gophers players. In the midst of the mutiny, Claeys tweeted “Have never been more proud of our kids.”
These “kids” were aligning themselves against an alleged victim, misunderstanding completely the concept of due process, proving ignorant of the difference between criminal prosecution and university policy pursuant to federal law, and only relenting when they finally cared enough to ask what the inquest actually concluded. It was a loud and insulting national embarrassment, and the coach paid the price for taking the wrong side.
This almost never happens, and a realist could note correctly that it might not have gone down this way here if Claeys were someone else, or if the team had been 19-0 on his watch instead of 11-8.
http://sports.cbslocal.com/2017/01/04/bernstein-good-for-minnesota/
Go Gophers!!
