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Letter Alleges Widespread Mistreatment of Sexual Assault Case at University of Iowa
Published 7/20/2008 at FanHouse
... In a letter to the University dated November 19, 2007 and released today by the Iowa City Press-Citizen, the mother detailed a long list of frustrations in relation to the school's handling of the case. The concerns ranged from the university's preference to keep punishment for the alleged sexual assault "in house" to the general welfare and safety of the alleged victim. ...

INTO THE LIGHT
Published 7/21/2008 by jebushchrist at Black Heart Gold Pants: Front Page Posts
... published a letter from the alleged victim's mother to University of Iowa officials on Saturday. Her letter was dated November 19, 2007, five weeks after the incident occurred, and five days after the University of Iowa publicly acknowledged an investigation. If even half the letter's claims are true, the University of Iowa's reputation and integrity must be called into question. We won't force the minutiae and details on our readers here. If you want that, you can read the P-C article here, and OPS covered the serious questions raised ...

Take A Hike, Ferentz
Published 7/21/2008 by Signal to Noise at Signal to Noise
... But now, this is bigger than football. It’s about a sexual assault investigation that apparently has been stalled by all responsible parties, from Ferentz on up to the AD and the school president.  The victim’s mother has accused Ferentz and AD Gary Barta of urging the victim to allow the U of I to handle the matter internally in a letter; the Fanhouse’s Adam Jacobi (better known to you and me as Oops Pow Surprise of ...

University of Iowa Athletic Staff Conspired to Cover Up a Sexual Assault? [College Football]
Published 7/21/2008 by Clay Travis at Deadspin
... Pants has already called for all involved to resign. Things don't get much uglier for a college athletics department. And it's going to get a lot worse before everything about this case is unveiled. Until then, a university has to explain why they encouraged a student athlete not to report a sexual assault. Which is entirely inexplicable. Ugly days have arrived in Iowa and it's not even winter. Mother: U of I wanted assault kept quiet [Des Moines Register] Alleged victim's mom criticizes UI [Press-Citizen] Into the Light [Black Heart Gold ...

K-State Slate, 7/22/08
Published 7/22/2008 by TB at Bring On The Cats: Front Page Posts
... May I be so objective: I hope to God nothing like this ever happens at my alma mater. But if it were, I also hope that I can look at it and ...

All This Could Have Been Ours
Published 7/23/2008 by Brian at mgoblog
... The mother of the victim was so incensed she released a scathing letter originally sent to Iowa eight months after she originally sent it. This is the money quote: ...

Boilermakings 7/23
Published 7/23/2008 by T-Mill (noreply@blogger.com) at Off the Tracks
... I didn’t comment on this yesterday in the Iowa preview because I had finished a week ago and was in a rush to put it up before heading off to work, but a big fat distraction, to say the least, reared its ugly head this week. Apparently the Iowa administration has covered up a rape case involving a couple of former football players, and it is getting even uglier. Black Heart Gold Pants has done a ...

Athletic Departments Anonymous
Published 7/24/2008 by Massey at Buckeye Commentary
... “What’s that, you heard about the department’s inexhaustible indifference toward a victim of sexual assault and insistence on burying it? Still, AD Gary Barta loves dogs. A lot.” ...