due to federal and state privacy laws the university can not comment. earlier this week up in tallahassee, winston and the national championship florida state football team held court with lawmakers at the state capitol. according to fox sports, two of winston s teammates have in fact now been punished by the school for violating the school s student code of conduct for what they did that night. one of them, a player, at the football team named risk cashinger, told police he videotaped the sex act in the apartment with his cell phone. later deleted it and threw away the phone. that even tried to engage in the sex act tivity with the other two that night. winston himself, he could also still be punished for a similar code of conduct violations if the school does continue pursuing this. and maximum penalty could be suspension if not ex-pullion for jameis winston. julie: wow, so the investigation how fsu handled the investigation of jameis winston
like disrupting a school event, fights, bullying, minor theft offenses, things, again, that can normally be handled within a district and a school environment. so what we ve done is we ve taken a very critical look at our student code of conduct and discipline matrix in the district, we ve made some modifications through a comprehensive committee that include law enforcement, representative from the juvenile justice system, the courts and we recognize there s a huge issue here that we need to address. there s been a okay. let me quickly get way in, kenneth, the concept of zero tolerance was clearly created for a reason. has it gone in the wrong direction? what changed in education that we really needed this? what a didn t hear an answer
vomit as well as several discarded condoms, shep. shepard: the university decided not to suspend this player wittles even though other universities automatically suspend athletes for being arrested before trial. why isn t this the case here. this is fyu student code of conduct. it s not so clear as to what should happen athlete accused of a felony assay florida state university which automatically yanks any player just accused of committing a felonious crime. now, fiu leaders are letting him play citing innocent until proving guilty despite criticism that they re treating rape accusations lightly. definitely think if he was a bench warmer, he would be suspended. if he is their star player, this is a growing athletic program that really wants publicity and attention for the school and for sports. and he is their star. now the preliminary hearing for wittels and his two buddies
a university to suspend an athlete for being accused of a felony. reporter: it s very common. florida state aoupb has that policy. if any athlete is accused of a felony immediately they are yanked off the team pending the investigation. florida international university s student code of conduct is not so clear-cut. it allows for a case-by-case decision for the university, in this case the university is siting the american tradition of innocent until proven guilty and they are allowing wittels to play and continue to pursue his hit streak record. i definitely think if he was a bench warmer he would be suspended. he s their star player, this is a growing athletic program that really wants publicity and attention for the school and for sports and he s their star. reporter: and the university just a few years ago even suspended some football players for allegedly trying to break into a car for a burglary. so the university is taking a lot of heat on this in the local