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.
[...] now an NFL player and part of the same Rosebowl winning team whose misdeeds the Seattle Times covered a couple of weeks ago. But her allegations against UW are, if anything, more [...]
[...] of the crime on college campus than their numbers alone would suggest. I don’t feel a need to rehash any stories here, but I thought maybe a useful contribution would be a quick list of things [...]
[...] of the crime on college campus than their numbers alone would suggest. I don’t feel a need to rehash any stories here, but I thought maybe a useful contribution would be a quick list of things [...]
[...] Why go to something like that? So that he is not walking around campus for the year or more it will probably take for the criminal case to go to court, potentially threatening her again or threatening another student? So that other students at Clemson see that the university takes accusations of assault, against intimate partners and otherwise, seriously? So that, if the disciplinary panel thinks he did not do what he is accused of (as two witnesses apparently testified on his behalf), their decision in his favor is treated with respect, rather than perceived as an empty show to allow him to continue to play football? (So that, the cynic in me whispers, he is not exploited by the system into having one last good season for Clemson football before the system sends him to prison? (Don’t believe police and prosecutors bend the rules to help out the local football team? See this story.) [...]