Konglishman
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
Location: Nanjing
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 Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 9:44 pm Post subject: The Notre Dame Story NOT in the National News |
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http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2012/12/04/why-i-wont-be-cheering-for-old-notre-dame/
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I�ve spent months researching these cases and written thousands of words in the National Catholic Reporter about the whole shameful situation, some of which you�ve likely heard about: Two years ago, Lizzy Seeberg, a 19-year-old freshman at Saint Mary�s College, across the street from Notre Dame, committed suicide after accusing an ND football player of sexually assaulting her. The friend Lizzy told immediately afterward said she was crying so hard she was having trouble breathing.
Yet after Lizzy went to the police, a friend of the player�s sent her a series of texts that frightened her as much as anything that had happened in the player�s dorm room. "Don't do anything you would regret,� one of them said. �Messing with Notre Dame football is a bad idea."
At the time of her death, 10 days after reporting the attack to campus police, who have jurisdiction for even the most serious crimes on school property, investigators still had not interviewed the accused. It took them five more days after she died to get around to that, though they investigated Lizzy herself quite thoroughly, even debriefing a former roommate at another school with whom she�d clashed.
Six months later -- after the story had become national news -- Notre Dame did convene a closed-door disciplinary hearing. The player testified that until he actually met with police, he hadn't even known why they wanted to speak to him -- though his buddy who�d warned Lizzy not to mess with Notre Dame football had spoken to investigators 13 days earlier. He was found �not responsible,� and never sat out a game. |
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