https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/555932/
And that PS managed the crisis well in terms of salvaging it’s reputation.
And that PS managed the crisis well in terms of salvaging it’s reputation.
FC: this article lauds PS and Erickson’s handling of the scandal (link)
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Which trustee numbnuts has friends at The Atlantic?
I actually think Rodney Erickson could be the "ghost author" of many of the articles shared in the previous NatGeo thread posted by @Midnighter. He does meet the following criteria
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- Is currently out of work
- Needs some form of income
- Is well-versed in Geography....hence the Geographic part
- Is a Liberal
- Desires to forward his perceived "agenda"
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"The position MSU is in has only one clear parallel: the recent sexual-abuse scandal at Pennsylvania State University. In 2011, the school’s former assistant football coach, Jerry Sandusky, was indicted on 52 counts of child molestation involving boys attending a football camp. That scandal was possibly “the worst reputational crisis among major institutions in American higher education,” wrote Jeff Hunt, the consultant hired in 2012 to help rehabilitate Penn State’s reputation, in his book, Brand Under Fire.
Hunt is now revising that assessment. Michigan State, he told me, “has a much bigger problem than Penn State.” While the underlying issues of mishandling sexual-abuse cases are similar, Penn State’s response to Sandusky’s indictment was dramatic and public. MSU’s leadership actively avoided public scrutiny for more than a year after Nassar’s first indictment in November 2016—and continued to do so several months after he pleaded guilty one year later.
Michigan State’s most significant step in holding itself accountable—the hiring of former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald last fall to conduct an investigation into the university’s failures—is itself controversial. While the MSU board and Simon’s office insist that Fitzgerald’s probe was independent—and would ultimately result in a report— the contract with his firm, obtained via a public-records request by The Detroit News, indicated otherwise. The contract described Fitzgerald as having a responsibility to shield MSU from legal liability—not just to assess the situation.
In contrast, by the time Sandusky was brought to trial, the former F.B.I. director Louis Freeh had already led an independent assessment investigating what went wrong in PSU’s handling of the case.
“You had detailed actions being taken by the university to make sure they upped their vigilance, that they were investing in public education around sexual abuse,” Hunt said. “At MSU, they left a natural vacuum—and it gets filled by speculation and innuendo, or it gets filled by facts.”
In January, as Nassar’s sentencing hearings progressed—featuring testimony from nearly 200 victims—the calls from students, faculty, and alumni for Simon to be fired grew louder. The MSU Board of Trustees vice chairman, Joel Ferguson, said on a sports radio program that Simon’s job was safe because “this Nassar thing” was not as significant as her record as a prolific MSU fundraiser." ...
Hunt is now revising that assessment. Michigan State, he told me, “has a much bigger problem than Penn State.” While the underlying issues of mishandling sexual-abuse cases are similar, Penn State’s response to Sandusky’s indictment was dramatic and public. MSU’s leadership actively avoided public scrutiny for more than a year after Nassar’s first indictment in November 2016—and continued to do so several months after he pleaded guilty one year later.
Michigan State’s most significant step in holding itself accountable—the hiring of former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald last fall to conduct an investigation into the university’s failures—is itself controversial. While the MSU board and Simon’s office insist that Fitzgerald’s probe was independent—and would ultimately result in a report— the contract with his firm, obtained via a public-records request by The Detroit News, indicated otherwise. The contract described Fitzgerald as having a responsibility to shield MSU from legal liability—not just to assess the situation.
In contrast, by the time Sandusky was brought to trial, the former F.B.I. director Louis Freeh had already led an independent assessment investigating what went wrong in PSU’s handling of the case.
“You had detailed actions being taken by the university to make sure they upped their vigilance, that they were investing in public education around sexual abuse,” Hunt said. “At MSU, they left a natural vacuum—and it gets filled by speculation and innuendo, or it gets filled by facts.”
In January, as Nassar’s sentencing hearings progressed—featuring testimony from nearly 200 victims—the calls from students, faculty, and alumni for Simon to be fired grew louder. The MSU Board of Trustees vice chairman, Joel Ferguson, said on a sports radio program that Simon’s job was safe because “this Nassar thing” was not as significant as her record as a prolific MSU fundraiser." ...
Steve Friess, the author of the article (who, FWIW, I think is often a quality writer) is a very liberal leaning individual writing - in this case - for a left leaning publication.
(Giving the article a critical read, I think one can see why that is an important consideration).
And writing his article as if he had done nearly 0 research on even the most rudimentary facts vav the Penn State comparative (granted, the article was about MSU...... but if you are going to go out of your way to bring in the comparative, at least do it intelligently)
He is also, I believe, now domiciled in Michigan.
On this story, Friess’s contentions are Nucking Futs.
As I mentioned elsewhere:
“Steve Friess, the author of this piece, is (IMO) “Nucking Futs”.
While MSU (and a couple of their trustees in particular) have made some head-scratching FUBARs:
On whole, MSU has handled their situation (for which they are much more culpable as an institution) 1,000,000,000% better than the PSU “leadership”.
Even as just an “interested observer”, that was clear to me from the start. And one could outline numerous ways in which MSU’s actions were not only more effective - but certainly more righteous and ethical.
All IMO of course (but I could go through the laundry list
Friess is a freelancer, not on the staff of The Atlantic. He's also more than a little bit of a whore who actively solicits PR guys as sources. Note that he gives considerable space to people who were paid by PSU to help them navigate Sandusky, including that worthless little pissant, Thcottie Sobel.
Significant mistakes concerning us:
1) Citing all the Sandusky victims--all 52 counts--as attendees of a football camp. Totally unaware of role of TSM and fact that only one count involved, IIRC, our campus.
2) Completely misunderstanding (in a 180 degree sense) the purpose of the organization Penn Staters for Responsible Stewardship.
1) Citing all the Sandusky victims--all 52 counts--as attendees of a football camp. Totally unaware of role of TSM and fact that only one count involved, IIRC, our campus.
2) Completely misunderstanding (in a 180 degree sense) the purpose of the organization Penn Staters for Responsible Stewardship.
Doesn't really matter. What's done is done. The university's reputation has been savaged and will never be repaired in our lifetimes. My money will stay in my wallet forever. That's just the way it is going to be.
Funny how this guy and Dan Bernstein were light years apart yet both separated from reason at birth.
While I think Penn State handled the Sandusky scandal very badly, what MSU has done is horribly worse. The lack of trust in leaders and level of integrity at MSU is as low as it gets. They are failing to take responsibility for the criminal conduct of one of their trusted employees (who they in fact protected) and faced with the public testimony of America's darling athletes, offer no public statements to accept any blame in their lack of adequate protection of their student athletes or those on the Olympic Gymnastics team. Instead, their coaches wear ribbons.
People will always remember the Sandusky crimes because man on boy abuse seems to some much more vile than man on girl. But MSU is still in a bottom spiral right now with more bad things to come. There were many MSU employees who contributed to this mess, and it will all come out in the investigation and all the lawsuits.
People will always remember the Sandusky crimes because man on boy abuse seems to some much more vile than man on girl. But MSU is still in a bottom spiral right now with more bad things to come. There were many MSU employees who contributed to this mess, and it will all come out in the investigation and all the lawsuits.
Looks like Gov Cuomo, of NY, just launched an investigation of previous complaints about harvey weinstein. apparently, there were complaints made but, obviously, whatever happened, didn't provide for corrective action.
I watched their BOT members apologize to the victims one by one. I don't know how sincere it was but I saw it.
I choose not to belive that they knowingly allowed Nassar to abuse girls. Why would anybody do that? It's fair to say that they failed to understand exactly what was going on and respond appropriately.
It's fair to say they are responsible for that just like it's fair to say that PSU administrators, TSM, CPS, DPW, etc. are responsible for failing to respond appropriately. Unfair to say they they knowingly enabled a pedophile.
I can't believe that article made it out that PS4RS is a GOOD thing. Oh well. They're still useless.
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Not sure but I think they interpreted PS4RS as part of our compliance with Freeh's recommendations.
That;s because Friess didn't have some PR guy explain to him what PS4RS is. Or maybe he did. He's pretty much limited to regurgitating what he's fed.
