The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection early Tuesday after decades of sexual abuse claims within one of the country's largest youth organizations. The petition, filed in Delaware bankruptcy court, halts the hundreds of lawsuits the BSA is facing that allege sexual misconduct by people...
Continue ReadingThe New York Times | Erica L. Green | February 10, 2020 WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s pending rules on sexual misconduct at the nation’s schools and colleges will include provisions to shore up protections for victims of stalking and dating violence, a response to lethal attacks that have...
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WACO, Texas — Baylor University will suspend 14 baseball players during the upcoming season because of a hazing incident from last year, school officials announced Friday. The incident happened in February 2019, and officials said they became aware of it three months later. They said a full investigation...
Continue ReadingLAS CRUCES, N.M. – New Mexico State University has dismissed a fraternity for five years after a student was injured in a shooting at an initiation event. The incident, reported Wednesday by student news outlet The Round Up, took place at a Kappa Sigma fraternity event held in November. According...
Continue ReadingA fraternity at Penn State University has been suspended after four of its members were accused of sexual assault, school officials said. The alleged attack was reported to university police after the victim told another person about the Jan. 15 assault by several fraternity brothers at Alpha Epsilon Pi, university...
Continue ReadingGRAND LEDGE – Police are at former U.S. Olympic women's gymnastics coach John Geddert's house for an investigation, two agencies confirmed. Grand Ledge Police Chief Thomas Osterholzer and Eaton County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Jerri Nesbitt both confirmed Tuesday that the Michigan Attorney General's Office had called for assistance. A Michigan...
Continue ReadingTALLAHASSEE — An appeals court Thursday said a former Florida State University fraternity president and two other men can face felony hazing charges in the 2017 death of a pledge who drank heavily at an off-campus party. A divided panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal overturned a Leon...
Continue ReadingA fraternity at Indiana University has been suspended following a brawl that allegedly involved anti-Semitic and racial slurs, university officials said. Police at the 48,000-student university and the Monroe County Prosecutor’s Office are investigating the physical assault that took place late Friday, school officials said in a statement released Sunday....
Continue ReadingThe lawsuit claims the student was tackled and beaten unconscious in an incident caught on camera. A lawsuit filed on behalf of Texas State University student Nikolas Panagiotopoulos alleges members of the Texas State Pi Kappa Phi Eta Rho fraternity assaulted the student in October, leaving him with a fractured...
Continue ReadingGWYNETH ROBERTS | Journal Star Within a week of reports that two former Nebraska football players faced suspension from the university for allegedly violating the school's sexual misconduct policies, Lincoln Police have heard from more people who say they were victims of sexual assault involving one or both players. In...
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