I don't know what you do about Michigan State University now that doesn't involve a demolition crew. Maybe blowing the place up and rebuilding it from the smoking crater on up sounds extreme, but, really, are there any other ideas out there that haven't spectacularly failed?
This upon the news this week that John Engler, the former Michigan governor who was brought in as president to clean up the Larry Nassar/institutional sexual assault mess in East Lansing, instead has proved to be just another clumsy oaf.
The latest gem: One of Nassar's victims, 18-year-old Kaylee Lorincz, told the MSU board that Engler took a meeting with her and asked if he were to write her a check for $250,000, if she would drop her involvement in the civil litigation being brought against the university. When the shocked young woman demurred, he said, "Well, give me a number," claiming another of Nassar's victims, Rachael Denhollander, had done so in a previous meeting.
Denhollander says that's "a bald-faced lie," and that she never even met with Engler.
So now we've got the president who replaced the president who looked the other way on Nassar for two decades basically offering to bribe one of his victims. Which of course victimizes her all over again by implying she (and her fellow victims) are just a bunch of gold-diggers who can be bought for the right price.
Nice goin' there, folks. Good to know you're still getting your recommended daily allowance of stupid.
Here's hoping the NCAA lands on Michigan State with both feet, and that the feet are shod in steel-toed Doc Martins. And that Engler, and the board that put him in charge of this mess, are gone before the next week is out. Because these people make the folks at Penn State look respectable,
And that's saying something.
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