re: USA Today new story on mishandling of misconduct complaints against athletes

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When a nurse at the health center asked if she planned to pursue a complaint against Guice, the woman said no.

“I don’t want to be that girl that everyone looks at and says, ‘Oh, she’s lying,’ ” the woman said. “Also, I was kind of scared to go forward with it because he was so violent.”

The nurse’s response reaffirmed to the woman that, even if she made a complaint to LSU, nothing would come of it.

“He’s like a god around here,” the woman recalled the nurse, an LSU employee, saying. “It probably would get pushed under the rug.”

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So I would think LSU is doing things correctly, but clearly we don't have all the facts.

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this is why there was a big shift under Obama to put the onus on universities, because they don't have to give the accused due process

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It’s not only athlete cases that have stalled in LSU’s Title IX process. Delays, missteps and inaction have also plagued cases involving ordinary students, according to interviews with five women who’ve gone through the process, as well as corroborating documents they provided USA TODAY.

In spring 2019, Elisabeth Andries, an LSU industrial engineering major, encountered a familiar face in one of her classes: the fraternity member who she said sexually assaulted her two years earlier, when she was a freshman.

It happened on a fraternity bus trip to New Orleans, Andries said. The frat member, who was a friend, had invited her as his date. They drank heavily, to the point that she was vomiting, she said. Although her memory of the night is fuzzy, she recalled her date moving her to the back of the bus, ripping open her shirt and touching her without her consent.

“I remember repeatedly saying ‘stop’ and ‘no,’ ” Andries said. “I think I just kind of blacked out after that.”

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Andries said she tried to ignore him in the class they had together two years later, but couldn’t. She started to suffer chronic panic attacks, she said, so she reported the incident to the school.

As it turned out, another female student had already reported the same man for sexually assaulting her in almost the exact same way, the same night, on the same bus trip.

Both women decided to move forward with a Title IX case. They did not file police reports.

USA TODAY is not naming the fraternity member at the request of the women, who fear retaliation from him. He did not return phone and social media messages from a reporter.

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There is no way of proving anything what the hell do this girls expect.

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LSU in June 2019 found the frat member responsible for sexually assaulting both women, case records the women shared with USA TODAY show. At every stage of the appeal process, LSU upheld the guilty verdict.

Yet even after finding him responsible twice, LSU refused to switch him out of the classes that he and Andries were set to share during the upcoming, fall 2019 semester, emails show. Instead, Andries said she was told that she would have to be the one to switch, because she was “the uncomfortable one,” and he had the same rights as her.

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This case sounds like bureaucratic incompetence more than anything nefarious going on

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