As entities of an organized sport, maintaining a safe environment is within the scope of their duties. The defendants breached this duty by employing Nassar after he had been accused multiple times of sexual assault. By employing Nassar, they created an unsafe emotional and physical environment…
I believe that these sanctions are beneficial because they allow students to receive the resources and help needed in the unfortunate event sexual harassment and misconduct has been reported. In addition, the sanction force universities and colleges to keep track of the sexual misconduct. With the stricter rules, the sanctions implemented toward disciplinary action will protect students from repeat actions from an alleged student and it will help to reduce the number of incidents that goes unresolved. On the other hand, with the stipulation of imposing fines the schools will be motivated to make sure that cases regarding sexual misconduct will be resolved and victims are…
International Business, T. (0011, July). Sandusky Penn State Scandal Timeline: Abuse, Cover-Ups began in 1994. International Business Times.…
On Wednesday UA's judicial review was completed, and Alabama’s associate vice president for university relations announced that the four students involved in the robberies on campus are no longer at the campus of The University of Alabama. “Based on all the information we've received and going through and trying to determine the future of the four guys that got in trouble, those guys are no longer associated with the football program," Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban said on Wednesday. "Their actions do not reflect the spirit and character that we want our organization to reflect. It's obviously very disappointing and unacceptable what happened.” Calloway admitted to using the stolen credit card for snacks from a vending machine. Saban would not characterize the dismissal of the players in absolute terms, saying only; they were no longer associated with the football program.…
In 1969, Jerry Sandusky starts his coaching career at Penn State University as a defensive line coach for the Nittany Lions football team (ESPN). Eight years later Sandusky founds The Second Mile, a group foster home dedicated to helping troubled boys that grows into a charity dedicated to helping children with absent or dysfunctional families (Kim, S). In the fall of 2000, janitor James Calhoun observes Sandusky and victim 8 in the showers, no reports are made. Less than two years later, in March 2002, the first report against Sandusky is filed with head coach Joe Paterno and the athletic director, Tim Curley. Patriot-News reports that grand jury is investigating Sandusky on allegations of indecent assault against a teenage boy-…
The reputation and image of what the university represented would never be the same. Unfortunately, when you think of Penn State, you do think of the football program and the educational standards, but the sexual misconduct of Jerry Sandusky will also be an underlining memory that many will have of the school. After the conviction of Sandusky, the Administrators who ignored the warning signs and the misconduct reported would face trial themselves (Fitzpatrick, 2012). The victims in the case have filed lawsuits against the University for failing to address the complaints when they were received. The only university official to not face charges…
Duke University Mens Lacrosse Sex scandal was a major a highly covered event and publicized by the media. The basis of the scandal pulls from a plethora of different areas. Some of those areas are race, media bias and due processes on campus. The scandal took place in 2006 involving 3 Mens lacrosse players one of which is the captain of the team the names of these athletes are Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans. The accuser in this case was an African American student Crystal Magnum who attended North Carolina Central University. How the event took place and transpired was as so, The Duke Mens Lacrosse team was having a party at the location 610 North Buchanon Boulevard a house off campus that was being used for the players.…
Sandusky was the assistant coach for 32 years serving as its defensive coordinator. He was a very highly touted defensive coordinator many schools contacted him to become their football coach, which he declined. One of the reasons for staying at the school was his work with Second Mile, a charity he founded for at-risk kids in 1977. The organization offered support and services for children. He took kids with him to Penn State games both home and away. Everything was going well for Sandusky in people’s eyes until the 1990’s. In 1998 authorities became suspicious of him regarding contact with minors inappropriately. The case was done by the state college after a boy told his mother that he showered with the football coach. The report by a special investigative group headed by former FBI director Louis Freeh had been commissioned by the Penn State Board of Trustees.…
Kane, C. (2012, Jul 24). Penn state abuse scandal NCAA lowers the boom. Wisconsin State Journal. Retrieved February 17, 2013 from http://ezproxy.snhu.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/1027633525?accountid=3783…
The 1919 Chicago “Black Sox” scandal is one of the biggest instances of sports deception in professional sports history. It was the one and only known time where members of a professional sports team had thrown the World Series because of bribery. It revolved around a major New York gangster named Arnold Rothstein, who supplied the money to all of the players that were involved in the throwing. One particular player out of the starting nine was “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, an all star and a future Hall of Famer. He was one of the first players in the court case who pleaded guilty for taking money to intentionally lose the 1919 Baseball World Series. After the court ruling, Jackson told reporters, “The jury could not have returned a fairer verdict, but I don't want to go back to organized baseball--I'm through with it.” This quote shows how he really felt about the entire situation and how sorry…
To fully understand the 1987 “death penalty” and the Southern Methodist University football scandal, you have to start back in 1981. That year was the rise of the city of Dallas, Texas and the oil industry in the surrounding area. It became the melting pot for Texas alumni and many started to brag to each other about where they went and how their football team was there. Football was as important as the weather at that time in the south and the alumni’s decided that they would just “buy” players to play at their colleges to create a winning team. S.M.U. started paying players the most money to come to their college and their head coach Ron Meyer was the first to personally recruit the top players (Matula, 2010).…
The article also reports that “a reverence for football was largely to blame for a series of missteps by top Pennsylvania State University administrators in failing to report repeated allegations of child sexual abuse by Jerry Sandusky” (1). Obviously, the culture at Penn State involved regarding the football program as more important than the victims of Sandusky’s abuses and the failure of his colleagues to act in the best interest of the children who were being abused. Furthermore, one of the main reasons why the decision makers did not report Sandusky was “that top officials abdicated their responsibilities in the interest of avoiding bad publicity” (The Chronicle of Higher Education 4). The top administrators did not want the program to fail, or to besmirch its good reputation, so they “repeatedly concealed critical facts relating to Sandusky’s child abuse from authorities, the Board of Trustees, the Penn State community, and the public at large” (The Chronicle of Higher Education 4). Basically, the decision makers wanted to avoid bad publicity that would be generated by reporting Sandusky, as bad publicity would hurt the football program and the entire university in many ways. Bad publicity would cause the football program to lose funding and support, destroy their good reputation, create a media circus, cause uncomfortable embarrassment for the decision makers, result in their loss of prestige and status, loss of their high-paying jobs at the university (“Joe Paterno’s total compensation in 2011 was $1,022,794, and Graham Spanier’s pay was $813,000”), loss of respect and support of the students and the entire university as well as people who financially supported the football program, and could also cause them to be sent to jail. In addition, I feel that Penn State cultivated a…
Many North Americans are familiar with the show, What Would You Do? with host John Quiñones. This television show covers sensitive topics ranging from areas of race or gender discrimination, stealing, sexual or violent abuse, and many more. Then, the average citizen is put to the test to see if he or she has what it takes to respond to the situation. Sitting in the comfort of their homes, many people say that they would stand up and defend for justice, but it is easier to think that when one is not currently in the midst of the situation. People are often quick to judge others and label people who do not respond as “bad people.” However, there are other situations to consider.…
The Southern Methodist football team deserved the death penalty because of their athletic booster’s use of bribery to recruit the best players in the nation. Southern Methodist University, a private university located in Dallas, Texas, is not one that many people hear of. Despite being located in a big town with a boom in economy, SMU was a long shot from being the conference champion. They needed someone to bring them back from a shadow of tough losses during the 1960s and 1970s, not to mention the competition they had to face while being in the…
powers and their foolish actions have lead to intense investigations. Some were kept private, others were publicly open to the press for the entire world to take notice! It is a horrible thing to think about but it does happen; sometimes right under our noses. Just to think we had a situation in a neighboring town where “a teacher was sexually involved and had an improper relationship with a student. Although it was consensual, it is still a second degree felony.” (Escobar) Just like the Penn State altercation was one as well. They might be on different levels of seriousness but a crime is a crime. Some coaches don’t understand how much respect they have from their students, but it can easily be lost in a quick second! Ask Mike Rice how that…