A number of Louisiana lawmakers don't believe the punishments for a couple of LSU administrators who mishandled some sexual abuse complaints were strong enough.
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Two University of Kansas employees lost their jobs this week in connection with sexual misconduct allegations at a campus 800 miles and three states away. Meanwhile, many in Louisiana wonder when they’ll see such accountability from their state’s own flagship university.
Louisiana State University on Friday released a report detailing a years-long, systemic failure to properly report and investigate allegations of sexual misconduct at the school. It has fired no one for their roles in the scandal.
Instead, it chose to suspend two people.
Verge Ausberry and Miriam Segar, longtime and high-ranking athletic department administrators with extensive, documented histories of skirting the school’s sexual misconduct policies by keeping allegations against athletes in house, were placed on unpaid suspension.
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Mar 11, 2021 7:51 AM
State lawmakers are not happy with the punishment LSU handed down following an extensive report that showed how LSU mishandled numerous sexual abuse cases. Two athletic administrators have been suspended, but during a legislative hearing on the issue, New Orleans Senator Karen Carter Peterson asked LSU officials how can they be trusted when they return to work.
“So you want to say fidelity is going to be the model moving forward, but they didn’t tell the truth and they were young people permanently harmed because they were sexually assaulted and no one listened,” said Peterson.
A group of LSU students held a sit-in protest outside of the Universityâs football facility in response to the suspension of two LSU officials who mishandled sexual assault allegations, not allowing athletes or LSU faculty to leave the premises.
Protestors were prompted to converge at the Alex Box parking lot before rallying upon the LSU Football Operations Center 11 a.m. Monday and stayed until shortly after 2 p.m. There were around 50 students attending the sit-in, blocking all entrances and exits from the parking lot outside of the LSU Football Operations Center.
The University hired law firm Husch Blackwell to investigate the Universityâs existing Title IX practices after a November USA Today report revealed that Deputy Athletic Director Verge Ausberry was aware that former LSU football player Drake Davis assaulted LSU womenâs tennis player Jade Lewis. After the report was released Friday, the University announced that two LSU officials, Ausberry and Senior Assoc