Possibly it is because they have access to lots of victims on a University campus, and will be abetted by the University in doing so.
As has finally come to light, Dr. Anderson while he was at the University of Michigan in sports medicine abused over 1,000 boys during his time at University of Michigan athletics. Over 1,000 acts of sexual assault over decades.
Interesting how it has gained far less attention than the Larry Nassar case over at Michigan State University. Just like in the Larry Nassar case, the powers that be at the University hushed it up for quite some time but this one involves the sexual assault of boys as compared to girls in the Nassar case.
The Detroit News: UM reaches $490 million settlement with Anderson accusers
Quite a sum, though the now men will receive smaller amounts of compensation than the women did in the Nassar case.
It is rather interesting isn't it, how the Universities talk a great deal about feminism, women's rights,ending sexual harassment, #metoo etc, and that society is to blame and it's all America's fault, but they end up being some of the largest perpetrators and facilitators of such outrageous abuse?
Bad enough that even one sexual assault is tolerated. Permitting thousands to occur and keeping a blind eye to a pattern of abuse by powerful and connected individuals at the Universities shouldn't have been permitted. Yet it rather clearly was, by the same folks mouthing platitudes against such abuse.
But Anderson wasn't the only serial abuser kept in place at UofM.
In addition to the Doctor Anderson scandal, the Provost of University of Michigan Martin Philbert was only now just sacked for a decades-long history of sexual harassment at the University. Note well that the University had been alerted to this early on, but it was apparently ignored or hushed up.
There's quite a pattern of hushing up sexual harassment and assaults at University of Michigan.
On top of that, the current President of University of Michigan was just very publicly fired for having an inappropriate (though apparently consensual) sexual relationship with a subordinate. It's too early to tell if this was just an excuse to push him out the door, or a righteous firing for being rather cavalier with University resources, but it certainly doesn't look good, and his having such relations with a subordinate in light of the above reflects pretty lousy judgment in any case.
Hellavua way to piss away a million-dollar-a-year salary for an affair.
They certainly need to sweep out the Big House at U of M.
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I read in our local paper that the President of the U of M had put in place the same policy that he had abused and the he was fired for violating.
It really makes you think hard about the election of the Board for the U of M, when we have to vote for them in state wide elections. I will have to start looking much more closely at the candidates, to see their backgrounds, and find out just where they come from, and their histories. It seems like some of them have not been too diligent about their duties. Maybe they should have run for the board of the NRA.
PigPen51: He likely stupidly figured the rules didn't apply to him, to his detriment. Very stupid indeed, but power as they say corrupts and the powerful figure the rules don't apply to them.
The University Boards tend to be sinecures and stepping stones for political office and don't tend to rock the leftist boat much at all.
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