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University Board to hold emergency meeting tomorrow over gang rape allegations

That would the Board of the University of Virginia. The NYT has the story, here:

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The University of Virginia heads into an extraordinary meeting of its governing board on Tuesday struggling to find its footing, after a reported frat house gang rape rocked the university’s vaunted reputation and genteel self-image and unleashed complaints that it had mishandled and concealed sexual assaults for years.

The administration has drawn fire for its unsteady response to the issue and the report, published last week by Rolling Stone, most recently for a video of a dean acknowledging weeks before the article that even students who had admitted to sexual assault had invariably escaped expulsion — and that, in fact, no one had been expelled for sexual assault in at least seven years. …

Meanwhile here at the University of Oregon, the report from the $150K “Review Panel” that former President Gottfredson’ and his VPSL Robin Holmes and AD Rob Mullens hand-picked after the press, faculty and students discovered his cover-up of the basketball rape allegations is due soon. But the members of that panel have specifically said they will *not* investigate the university’s response to those allegations. And UO’s Public Records office is still refusing to release public records showing how the administration responded, and what legal advice it received to justify the many redactions it made to the documents it did release.

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