maizenbluedevil

January 24th, 2018 at 7:17 PM ^

On the one hand, I agree with you.

On the other hand, it can’t help but feel hollow in the wake of national media attention.

Where was her (and others) moral leadership in the past? This Nassar stuff is not new. I recall seeing it for the first time on this board at least a year ago.

So, where was her moral leadership then, at a time that would’ve shined a light on all this sooner, when that was most needed, when no one was paying attention?

To all the sudden do this now that *everyone* is paying attention isn’t brave and it’s not leadership, it’s merely adding your voice to the already large chorus.

lilpenny1316

January 24th, 2018 at 7:33 PM ^

Who knows what, if anything she knew, between then and 2016 when all of this became known.  According to DetNews, this was her responsibility:

"She was the chairperson for the Athletic Council, which functions as the faculty voice in intercollegiate athletics on issues of academic policy related to student-athletes."

There's a good chance that the Nassar allegations were something that never crossed her desk.

1VaBlue1

January 24th, 2018 at 8:29 PM ^

I agree with you in part, but not necessarily in principle.  She may have had - and voiced - reservations in the past.  But her voice isn't one we would hear outside of the faculty, itself.  And it appears that she did make public statements that were contrary to what the BoT and Simon have doled out as the talking points.  We know this from her letter - the phone call sounds like it was from Simon telling her to shut up.

Good for her.  It takes courage to resign immediately while subtetly calling out your boss.  Retirement age, or not, she left on principle.  And that I can get behind.

FL_Steve

January 24th, 2018 at 11:28 PM ^

Let it be known, she is a great and couragous person for:

Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.

-J. K. ROWLING, speech, Jun. 5, 2008

 

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

-Rollo May

 

The world will not be destroyed by evil men, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

-Einstein  

Everyone Murders

January 24th, 2018 at 6:22 PM ^

It sounds like she is giving up a title/ position.  Good on her for doing that.

It also sounds like she is still on the faculty - good for her there, too.  I double-dog dare Lou Anna Simon to fire this woman! 

Everyone Murders

January 24th, 2018 at 6:27 PM ^

It probably does not add to her bottom line, but in the university setting titles matter even if they're not paid.  This is a pretty big public "fuck you" to Lou Anna Simon, and took some courage for Professor Carter to muster.

Njia

January 24th, 2018 at 6:23 PM ^

And a few others are hearing that LAS will resign on Friday or Saturday. There is a BOT “working session” schedule for Friday, presumably to go over succession planning.

She gone.

Mabel Pines

January 24th, 2018 at 6:49 PM ^

who is disappointed that it took the public reading of graphic victim impact statements for them to do ANYTHING??? 

Great that she is standing up to Lou Ann now, but the victims needed all of these people to do something years ago.  They didn't. 

DOBlue48

January 24th, 2018 at 7:21 PM ^

Well what does that bring the score of good deeds vs bad deeds from MSU on the Nassar thing??  1-1,500 or so??  Good for this fine lady to take a stand.  

I suspect the cruel irony here is that she truly had no idea about what Nassar had been doing until it hit the news, nor the cover-up along the way and yet she is the first off the ship. 

 

EDIT:  I guess she is remaining in her role as faculty, but still, symbolically she jumped off this boat.  Hope it starts a trend to increase the pressure from all sides.

BursleyHall82

January 24th, 2018 at 7:34 PM ^

She is as upstanding and honest a person as you'll ever meet. I've had the pleasure of speaking to her sports journalism class a few times (they always make this Wolverine feel welcome), and there is no bigger Spartan fan on that campus. She ends every class by yelling "GO GREEN!" and then all the students yell "GO WHITE!" (I always added a "GO BLUE!")

So her MSU credentials are impeccable. She is universally loved and respected on that campus, so for her to do this speaks volumes.

BlueHills

January 24th, 2018 at 7:44 PM ^

I always felt that Penn State got off too lightly, in the end. This is worse than Penn State, or at the very least, just as bad.

The girls who complained to no fewer than 14 folks at MSU were actually dissuaded from pursuing their complaints with implied threats. It’s sick.

Simon is self-absorbed, Ferguson is a sick fuck, and who knows who else should be gone. But that’s not enough. There should be hell to pay.

I’ve said elsewhere that PSU should have been booted from the Big Ten. So should MSU, because they took no action whatsoever to protect their students, as well as little girls, hundreds of them; because they dissuaded the kids filing complaints from pursuing them; because they emailed Nassar that they “had his back;” Because the administration and their board are impossibly tone-deaf and uncaring.

By allowing these kinds of events to come down to “We’re sorry, it won’t happen again,” as with Penn State, we have a repeat at Michigan State. There do need to be hard consequences. If the NCAA doesn’t bring them, then the Big Ten should act.

I’m sorry to say this. I don’t hate MSU or PSU for their sports programs; that rivalry nonsense is childish. This is serious stuff. Here are institutions that make tens of millions off their sports programs, and that are helped in so doing by the Big Ten. That’s just plain wrong.

Amaizin' Blue

January 24th, 2018 at 9:14 PM ^

This goes way beyond sports. Their actions are indefensible. Both schools should be kicked to the curb. Maybe years ago (meaning decades) that could have happened. But realistically (whether right or wrong) they will not be kicked out of the B1G



I wish they would. They deserve it. At least 5-10 years. But it won’t happen so we have to think of other forms of punishment to change the culture and dissuade others from putting money and public appearances ahead of kids

YoungGeezy

January 24th, 2018 at 8:36 PM ^

The lack of leadership and appropriate action taken by the MSU Athletics Department in most scenarios seems to maintain consistency. The cowardice didn't just start with the handling of Nassar and Simon.

jbrandimore

January 24th, 2018 at 8:38 PM ^

But resigning today is the emptiest of empty gestures.

Once she heard in 2014 that the Title IX invesigation had been a sham, she should’ve raised holy hell if she cared about her students she was supposed to advocate for.

The fact she did and said nothing when in a position of some oversight of the athletic department would put her on my list of those that needed to be fired for cause.

wolpherine2000

January 25th, 2018 at 9:46 AM ^

...is charged with discussing academic policy related to student athletes and intercollegiate athletics. It is an advisory role, not one of oversight.

There shall be an Athletic Council with composition and bylaws subject to approval by the University Council. The Athletic Council shall function as the faculty voice in the intercollegiate athletic program.

The Athletic Council serves as the deliberative body for the discussion of academic policy related to student athletes and intercollegiate athletics.

The Athletic Council advises the Director of Intercollegiate Athletics on matters of policy, procedures, and organization related to intercollegiate athletics.