“The USC community needs the campus leaders to forthrightly admit mistakes, investigate failures and make known the results of those investigations. Instead, we get distractions and euphemisms,” writes arielagross for latimesopinion.
Nicholas Goldberg: Should we cut Ridley-Thomas slack because his alleged crimes were on behalf of his son?Those surveys and focus groups revealed that many constituencies on campus, especially tenured faculty, felt alienated and outraged by failures of integrity and ethics, lack of openness and imperial decision making from the very top. But the administration has persisted in treating its problems as broad cultural ones for which others are responsible.
In the meantime, USC has failed to fulfill even the minimal commitment it made as a result of the legal settlement it reached with some of Tyndall’s accusers and a separate settlement with the U.S. Department of Education’s Civil Rights Division. Both settlements required USC to agree to a series of best practices to reform its sexual assault prevention protocols on campus. The university dragged its feet and has implemented only a few thus far.
The new administration — no longer new — could have used this crisis as an opportunity. Even if it wanted to bury the past, it could have prepared for a better future by embracing reforms to make USC a standout campus with regard to sexual assault and prevention. Instead, we don’t even have a place where survivors can go after an assault for evidence collection with a rape kit. They have to drive to Santa Monica instead.
That brings us to Sigma Nu. Members of the USC community found out about the alleged rapes at the fraternity through a daily “crime alert” email from the Department of Public Safety on Oct. 21, weeks after administration officials had been alerted. When the L.A.
My students, faculty and staff colleagues are some of the best, most hard-working and most ethical people I have ever known. Indeed, one of the silver linings for me of my involvement in protesting the university administration’s actions over the last few years as the chair of Concerned Faculty of USC has been getting to know them better. But the culture of the USC administration is rotten from the top.
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