The Seattle Times ran a pair of articles today that detailed just how much football players get away with the University of Washington, in the NFL, in our criminal justice system, and it seems like pretty much every where else. The whole story is horrifying, but in terms of the campus culture SAFER tries to change, the University of Washington in particular should be ashamed of how horribly it treated the woman who accused football player Jerramy Stevens of rape. No consequences for him and an attempt to out her name when she later sued Stevens for the rape (the county decided not to prosecute, and you don’t have to read very far between the lines to know what a load of football worshiping b.s. that decision was) and UW for creating a culture where football players thought they were invulnerable to prosecution. She was a student just as much as Stevens was and they equally deserved the university’s protection. Too bad she wasn’t perceived as able to bring in a couple of extra million for the university.

Article one is on Stevens, article two covers some of Stevens’ teammates that year.