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August 30, 2018
LANSING - Two women told investigators earlier this year that in late 1997 they each met with MSU gymnastics coach Kathie Klages and told her Larry Nassar sexually assaulted them.
August 29, 2018
WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is preparing new policies on campus sexual misconduct that would bolster the rights of students accused of assault, harassment or rape, reduce liability for institutions of higher education and encourage schools to provide more support for victims.
August 28, 2018
LANSING - Former MSU gymnastics coach Kathie Klages is expected to turn herself in to authorities and be arraigned on Thursday, according to the Attorney General's Office.
August 27, 2018
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) -- - Disgraced doctor Larry Nassar's motion for a new sentence was denied Monday in an Ingham County courtroom.
August 26, 2018
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — There is an old photo album on the top shelf of the wooden hutch of the Denhollander home in Kentucky. Contained in the glossy, laminated pages are handwritten inscriptions and silly captions and pictures of a group of teenage friends — at camp, on school trips and posing in goofy, staged photos, like the one of Rachael Denhollander, lips puckered near the mouth of a frog, claiming the soon-to-be dissected specimen as her formaldehyde prince.
August 25, 2018
It is not just that John Engler has no empathy or sympathy for the hundreds of women who alleged sexual abuse at the hands of sports doctor Larry Nassar.
December 25, 2019
EAST LANSING — If there was one message that Democratic candidates for Michigan State University’s Board of Trustees had, it was that interim President John Engler has got to go.
I lobbied to change the law after I was abused by Larry Nassar. I hope Pa. survivors can do the same
August 24, 2018
I am one of many who read the grand jury report on sexual assault by priests of the Catholic Church across most of Pennsylvania over seven decades. The report tells a story of heinous crimes committed by Catholic priests and concealed by the Catholic hierarchy. It is a story of lives and hopes ruined forever by men who used their position of trust as clergy to commit the very sins that the God they vowed to serve forbids under pain of hell.
Original MSU alumni magazine leaked
August 24, 2018
The original teal-laden version of the summer 2018 MSU alumni magazine, aiming to “build a path to a better future,” was stripped down and changed to Spartan green.
August 22, 2018
East Lansing -- Michigan State University named a 19-member committee Wednesday to search for the school's next permanent president.
August 22, 2018
The 19 members of the committee to search for a permanent president for MSU were named on Wednesday. During the search update, co-chairs in the presidential search MSU Trustee Dianne Byrum and Trustee Melanie Foster gave the announcement and answered questions.
MSU: No decision yet on whether finalists for president's job will be named publicly
August 22, 2018
EAST LANSING - The 19-member committee that will advise Michigan State University trustees on the search for the next president includes four current trustees and one former trustee, two deans, seven faculty members as well as an undergraduate and graduate student.
August 22, 2018
Michigan State University is seeking a stay on new lawsuits filed by former patients of Larry Nassar, according to a court motion filed Aug. 17 in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids.
August 19, 2018
When she heard Jordyn Wieber give a victim impact statement during Larry Nassar's sentencing in January, Becca Bovine was struck by how Wieber was summing up exactly how Bovine felt.
August 15, 2018
It was supposed to jump off the page at you. A black-and-white shot of a woman, the only color on the page, her teal lipstick and the teal nameplate of the magazine.
MSU hands over more documents related to Nassar investigation
August 15, 2018
Michigan State University has turned over roughly 1,000 more documents it has previously redacted or withheld from investigators, according to a monthly bulletin from the Michigan Attorney General’s Office.
The bulletin serves as a way to keep survivors of Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse up to date with where things stand in the current investigation into MSU, which has been ongoing since January of this year.
July 31, 2018
A Michigan State University Trustee tasked with leading the search for MSU’s next president says the Board is committed to transparency and inclusion throughout the process. A campus advocacy group promises to hold the trustees to their word.
July 26, 2018
Michigan State University suspended payments to victims in the Larry Nassar sex abuse case seeking help from a counseling fund following allegations of fraud, the school said Thursday, while at the same time it is suing insurers, claiming coverage denial in the $500 million settlement.
July 25, 2018
Survivors of Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse, their parents and MSU community members have joined curators from Michigan State University Museum to begin the process of preserving the more than 200 teal mesh bows wrapped around trees across MSU’s campus. The bows, which have served as a visual memorial to honor the survivors, also have been an integral part of the healing process.
July 19, 2018
In a powerful moment Wednesday night, more than 140 survivors took the stage at the 2018 ESPYS to accept the Arthur Ashe Courage Award on behalf of all those who were sexually abused by former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar.
July 18, 2018
These 12 brave women are among the hundreds of sister survivors who came forward about the abuse they endured from Larry Nassar and brought the former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State physician to justice. They found solace and strength in one another as they transformed from athletes into activists -- and their collective courage empowered countless other survivors to come forward.
July 18, 2018
East Lansing — The Michigan State University Board of Trustees approved a contract Tuesday with Athletic Director Bill Beekman.
July 12, 2018
Michigan State University Interim President John Engler will testify this month before a congressional panel as investigations continue in the wake of the Larry Nassar sex abuse scandal.
July 11, 2018
"I'm a Spartan. My wife is a Spartan. I'm embarrassed (by the university's response to the sexual assault scandal involving Larry Nassar). I'm heartbroken (for the survivors). We can't have anything like that happen again. I will do everything in my authority to make sure it never happens again. … I have broad authority."
July 12, 2018
Ex-dean of MSU's College of Osteopathic Medicine William Strampel was in court for pretrial Thursday in Veterans Memorial Courthouse in Lansing
July 11, 2018
Even as Michigan State University struggles to respond to the worst crisis in our institutional history, there are signs that the powerful voices of more than 300 sexual abuse survivors, victims of former MSU physician Larry Nassar, are shifting the culture of higher education
July 02, 2018
Michigan State University has not informed at least a dozen patients about a potential breach of their confidential medical records at a university health clinic after a doctor associated with Larry Nassar removed their files in 2016.
July 02, 2018
Interim Michigan State University President John Engler plans to hire a chief compliance officer to make sure MSU follows legal and ethical regulations.
June 29, 2018
Ex-MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar faces six new, additional charges of sexual assault at a Texas gymnastics training center, according to reports.
June 29, 2018
EAST LANSING - Michigan State University has filed a legal challenge to a Michigan Attorney General's Office search warrant seeking documents as part of its investigation in the wake of the Larry Nassar scandal.
June 29, 2018
A Michigan State University attorney who defended the institution against sexual assault lawsuits is now heading the office handling sexual assault complaints — a move that is drawing criticism from victim advocates.
June 29, 2018
Michigan State University's search for a new president is underway.
It won't be easy. Trustee Mitch Lyons got it right last week when he said, “Nobody in their right mind is walking into this hot mess right now.” And the mess keeps getting hotter.
June 29, 2018
Michigan State University hopes to hire a new president to help steer the school away from the Larry Nassar scandal by June 2019.
June 27, 2018
On Wednesday, shortly after Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement, President Donald Trump released a short-list of candidates for his next SCOTUS nominee.
June 27, 2018
The Michigan State University Board of Trustees announced today they hope to select the university’s next president in June 2019.
Former president Lou Anna Simon resigned in January as the Larry Nassar abuse scandal exploded. The school is currently run by Interim President John Engler, who has not been a popular figure among survivors of Nassar’s abuse. Engler is not expected to participate in any part of the search for the next leader.
June 27, 2018
EAST LANSING – By June 2019, Michigan State University hopes to hire an empathetic, compassionate new president to lead it out of the Larry Nassar scandal.
June 27, 2018
The announcement of a permanent MSU president will come in June 2019, according to a timeline detailing the selection of the next president that was presented Wednesday by Trustees Dianne Byrum and Melanie Foster.
June 26, 2018
LANSING - Interim MSU President John Engler expects a "wicked fight" with the university's insurance companies over how much they may pay of the $500 million settlement with hundreds of Larry Nassar's victims.
June 26, 2018
The MSU Board of Trustees will announce a "presidential search timeline" Wednesday, according to a press release from MSU Spokesperson Emily Guerrant.
June 25, 2018
Michigan State University is coming to the bond market with a deal that’ll create a major quandary for investors across the country.
The school’s trustees on Friday approved a $500 million settlement with the more than 330 women and girls who were victims of serial sex abuser Larry Nassar. To fund the payments, they’re issuing general revenue bonds. “We are in a position that we can have such a very large bond issue,” Trustee Melanie Foster said, according to the Detroit News, adding that no tuition or state funds will be used to pay for the settlement. The agreement still has to be finalized and approved by a judge.
June 22, 2018
East Lansing — The Michigan State University Board of Trustees stuck by embattled Interim President John Engler on Friday, rejecting a motion to fire him under pressure and approving his choice to be the school’s top lawyer for the next three years.
June 22, 2018
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University’s embattled interim president survived an attempted ouster from the school’s governing board Friday as trustees met to approve using a bond to finance a $500 million settlement with hundreds of women and girls who said they were sexually assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar.
June 22, 2018
For most any university in the nation, what happened here on Friday would signal a crisis beyond repair. But at Michigan State, it felt all too familiar.
June 22, 2018
EAST LANSING - Michigan State University trustees froze tuition rates for incoming freshmen this fall and approved plans to institute a block tuition structure for the 2019-2020 school year.
June 22, 2018
Photos from the Board of Trustees meeting taken by the State News
June 22, 2018
The MSU Board of Trustees voted at its June 22 meeting to implement a tuition freeze for in-state freshmen in 2018-19 and a tuition freeze for all undergraduate students in 2019-20.
June 22, 2018
he MSU Board of Trustees meeting on Friday was met with more calls for Interim President John Engler's termination, votes on the budget for the upcoming school year, personnel actions, decisions on the $500 million settlement with the survivors of ex-MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar's sexual abuse and more.
June 22, 2018
Earlier this week, over 150 survivors of sexual assault at the hands of former Michigan State doctor Larry Nassar wrote an open letter to the MSU Board of Trustees, urging them to fire interim president John Engler.
June 22, 2018
After Rachael Denhollander reported that Larry Nassar sexually assaulted her as a young gymnast, many people didn't believe her.
June 22, 2018
The result of a sometimes raucous MSU Board of Trustees meeting today left interim MSU President John Engler in office.
June 22, 2018
The Michigan State Board of Trustees voted to approve a $500 million settlement between the school and survivors of Larry Nassar
June 22, 2018
A decision on Thursday by Michigan State University’s Board of Trustees to stand behind John M. Engler, who has been under intensifying pressure to resign as interim president, all but ensures that the campus can count on protests and outrage to continue.
Photos: MSU Board of Trustees Meeting
June 22, 2018
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June 22, 2018
East Lansing -- Michigan State University trustees on Friday approved a historic $500 million settlement with victims of serial sex abuser Larry Nassar and authorized university officials to seek general revenue bonds to fund the school's payments to more than 330 women and girls.
June 22, 2018
EAST LANSING - Members of the Michigan State University Board of Trustees gave the go-ahead to sell some $500 million in bonds to pay for settlements related to sexual abuse perpetrated by former university doctor Larry Nassar.
June 21, 2018
Interim Michigan State University President John Engler says he's "very sorry" for questioning the motives of victims of Larry Nassar, assertions that Engler made in an email to a university attorney that became public last week.
June 21, 2018
Michigan State University President John Engler has issued a statement apologizing for an April email in which he attacked a Larry Nassar survivor.
June 21, 2018
My name is Morgan McCaul, and I’m 18 years old.
Six years ago, I became a member of the Spartan community in the most unfortunate, perverted of ways. I endured unspeakable acts on this campus, things which forged my future forth in a direction completely out of my control.
June 21, 2018
It took a village of complicit individuals in places of power to create a safe haven for Larry Nassar. It will take an unwavering horde of vigilant, courageous individuals to dismantle it.
June 20, 2018
LANSING - The special prosecutor investigating sexual misconduct at Michigan State University in the wake of the Larry Nassar scandal has accused MSU’s lawyers of interfering with his investigation by withholding documents and last week told the university he will seek a search warrant.
June 20, 2018
Michigan State still doesn’t get it.
A university that aided and abetted Larry Nassar and his horrific crimes for the better part of two decades doesn’t get to be indignant or question the women whose lives were shattered. It doesn’t get to play the aggrieved party, be it in public statements or private emails.
June 20, 2018
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University's new general counsel, appointed in the wake of the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal, would make nearly $1.3 million over three years even if he were fired for cause before his contract ends, two people familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
June 20, 2018
The image is striking. A black-and-white head shot of a woman, her eyes staring straight into you. The only color on the page — teal lipstick on the model and in the nameplate of the magazine.
June 19, 2018
Michigan State University trustees will gather Wednesday for a two-day retreat to discuss pivotal issues facing the state's largest public institution in the wake of the Larry Nassar sex abuse scandal.
June 19, 2018
Over 100 Larry Nassar survivors are urging Michigan State University to fire its interim president, John Engler.
“While our hope had been that President Engler would bring accountability, transparency, and change to MSU, it is clear to us that he cannot,” reads a statement to the MSU Board of Trustees signed by 120 self-proclaimed “sister survivors.”
June 19, 2018
A letter signed by 120 survivors of ex-MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar's sexual abuse calls for Interim President John Engler to leave his position at MSU and for select members of the Board of Trustees to force him to resign.
June 19, 2018
LANSING, Mich. – A letter signed by 120 sexual abuse victims of former sports doctor Larry Nassar on Tuesday urged Michigan State University’s governing board to oust interim president John Engler, saying he had reinforced a “culture of abuse” at the school.
June 15, 2018
The interim president of Michigan State University faced intensifying calls for his resignation Friday, amid outrage over comments he made about a victim of sexual abuse.
June 15, 2018
LANSING, MI - The Senate Minority Leader and sponsors of a childhood sexual assault prevention bills are among those calling for Michigan State University Interim President John Engler to resign following his email, now public, accusing a victim of ex-doctor Larry Nassar of taking "kickbacks" from attorneys.
June 14, 2018
Interim Michigan State University President John Engler must step down immediately from his position leading the university, a growing number of lawmakers, including U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, said Thursday.
June 14, 2018
Still reeling from the fallout of the Larry Nassar Sexual Abuse Scandal, Michigan State University is in hot water again this week after The Chronicle of Higher Education revealed previously unpublished emails in which Interim President John Engler criticizes lawyers of the assault survivors. The email exchange between Engler and a university official also implied a belief that survivor Rachael Denhollander would receive a kickback from her lawyer. WKAR's Karel Vega spoke with Chronicle of Higher Education reporter Jack Stripling, who wrote the article revealing the contents of the emails.
June 14, 2018
Calls mounted Thursday for Interim President John Engler to resign in the wake of emails in which he suggested that the first gymnast to publicly accuse Larry Nassar of sexual abuse might get a "kickback" from her attorney for "manipulating" other victims.
June 14, 2018
EAST LANSING - On the day Michigan State University's Board of Trustees appointed Bill Beekman as the university's acting president, he sent an email to the trustees telling them that former Michigan governor Jim Blanchard could fly in from Washington D.C. for a dinner in East Lansing three days later.
June 14, 2018
EAST LANSING - John Engler could be president of Michigan State University for another year.
That’s after an MSU trustee told 6 News she hopes to have a new leader in place by June of 2019.
Trustee Dianne Byrum is helping the school search for a new president after Lou Anna Simon resigned in January. Her resignation was prompted by the Larry Nassar scandal.
June 14, 2018
Under fire for allegations that he had tried in early spring to quietly pay off a sexual-abuse survivor without her lawyer present, John M. Engler, Michigan State’s interim president, scrambled behind the scenes to craft a public response.
June 13, 2018
Michigan State University's interim president criticized lawyers who represent survivors of former doctor Larry Nassar's sexual abuse and suggested that the first woman to go public with her accusations was probably getting a "kickback'' from her attorney, according to emails.
June 13, 2018
Michigan State interim President John Engler, in a private email to a top adviser, accused a prominent survivor of former MSU doctor Larry Nassar — Rachael Denhollander — of likely getting kickbacks from the trial attorneys involved in lawsuits against the school.
June 13, 2018
In April, John M. Engler, the newly minted interim president of Michigan State University, was under attack. Publicly, he felt as if he couldn’t say anything about the victims of Larry Nassar, a former university sports doctor who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting girls and young women. But privately it was a different story.
June 13, 2018
East Lansing — Michigan State University interim President John Engler faced blowback Wednesday after emails emerged in which he criticized lawyers for Larry Nassar’s assault victims and said the first gymnast to come forward in the scandal was probably getting a "kickback” from her attorney for "manipulating" other victims
June 12, 2018
LANSING - A seventh MSU employee with ties to the Larry Nassar scandal is under investigation by the state's licensing agency.
June 11, 2018
Later in his life, Jonas Salk began thinking, writing and speaking about various aspects of the human condition. In 1985, he went to New York University to discuss his most recent, and what turned out to be his last, book, Anatomy of Reality: Merging of Intuition and Reason. He spoke about changing societal institutions in terms of metamorphosis, with a focus on two powerful ideas.
June 08, 2018
Michigan State University interim President John Engler was directly involved in the crafting of a detailed public rebuke of a rape accuser’s allegations, a statement that potentially violated a federal privacy law and endangered grant funding for sexual assault counseling services, the Free Press has learned.
June 06, 2018
EAST LANSING, Mich. (WXYZ) - The bond between Brian Mosallam and Michigan State is strong.
Since his playing days are long since over, he’s stayed apart of the University, and for the past five years as a member of the board of trustees.
June 05, 2018
Ex-dean of MSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine William Strampel’s criminal case will move to Circuit Court after a preliminary hearing on Tuesday determined there has been misconduct in the office and fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct.
June 05, 2018
WASHINGTON — The former head of USA Gymnastics pleaded the Fifth at a congressional hearing on Tuesday, refusing to answer questions about his role in the sex abuse scandal surrounding Olympic team doctor and serial predator Larry Nassar.
June 05, 2018
EAST LANSING - A District Court judge has ruled that there's enough evidence for the case against former MSU dean William Strampel to move to the trial court level.
June 04, 2018
EAST LANSING - Former MSU dean William Strampel is expected to be in court Tuesday for the start of a key hearing in his criminal case.
June 03, 2018
Despite knowing for nearly 15 years that Michigan State University dean William Strampel had a pattern of making sexually inappropriate comments to female students, former MSU President Lou Anna Simon still didn't believe there were any issues that "would rise to the concern of a 'sexual predator.' "
May 29, 2018
The Michigan State University board has hired Theresa Sullivan, currently the University of Virginia president, to help it as it searches for the next MSU president.
May 29, 2018
Board of Trustees announces UVA President, Michigan State alumna Teresa A. Sullivan to serve as board adviser
Board: Appointment represents key step forward in hiring permanent president at MSU
May 29, 2018
Former MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon will testify next week before a U.S. Senate subcommittee investigating the Olympic community's role in handling sexual assault in the wake of ex-MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar's sexual abuse.
May 28, 2018
At least three times since 2004, colleagues of Larry Nassar’s ex-boss alerted Michigan State University’s administration about multiple reports of inappropriate sexual comments he made toward students and others, according to documents obtained by The Detroit News.
The most recent occurrence was in 2015, when a committee evaluating the performance of William Strampel, then dean of the MSU osteopathic medical school, discussed multiple allegations made by students, faculty and staff about unprofessional conduct that Strampel allegedly directed mostly at women.
May 24, 2018
Defendants in the state of Michigan will now be required to listen to their victims' impact statements according to a bill approved by Governor Snyder Wednesday.
Impact statements are often the only opportunity a victim has to share their experiences in a legal setting.
May 24, 2018
DETROIT, Mich. (WILX) -- The Ingham County Circuit Court judge who heard more than a hundred victim impact statements from Larry Nassar survivors said Michigan State University's Interim President is "a bully. "
May 24, 2018
USA Gymnastics officials agreed to provide what Larry Nassar's attorney called "false excuses" for his absence from major gymnastics events in 2015, rather than disclose to parents and gymnasts that Nassar was under investigation for child sexual abuse.
May 24, 2018
When Michigan State University announced a $500 million settlement last week with victims of convicted sports medicine doctor Larry Nassar, officials didn’t say how they would pay for it. Interim President John Engler told Michigan Radio that insurance will cover some of the cost. The university may have to borrow some money or dip into reserves.
May 23, 2018
Detroit — One week after Michigan State University and victims of Larry Nassar reached a $500 million settlement, Judge Rosemarie Aquilina said Interim President John Engler's time is up and he needs to step down.
May 22, 2018
LOS ANGELES — Two hundred professors at the University of Southern California have demanded the resignation of the school’s president, C.L. Max Nikias, saying that he no longer had the “moral authority to lead” and had failed to protect students and staff from “repeated and pervasive sexual harassment and misconduct.”
May 22, 2018
Dear College of Arts & Letters alumni and friends,
By now many of you have heard that the university has agreed in principle to a $500 million global settlement with the survivors of the sexual abuse committed by former Michigan State University doctor Larry Nassar.
May 21, 2018
In this past week, President Engler has made multiple statements, along with Bob Young, that MSU has made changes they aren’t getting credit for, and that MSU has apologized to the survivors.
May 20, 2018
Morgan McCaul had a simple goal when she joined a lawsuit against Michigan State University — use it to force change on the campus that allowed former MSU doctor Larry Nassar to sexually assault hundreds of victims, including herself.
Reclaim
May 19, 2018
The University settles with the Nassar survivors, the Board of Trustees erupts in drama, a Trustee is acquitted of assault and battery, and even more administration figures resign. And none of those are even the main topic of this episode.
May 19, 2018
WASHINGTON (WILX) - The former president of Michigan State University has accepted an invitation to testify before a U.S. Senate subcommittee.
Lou Anna Simon has agreed to speak at the U.S. Senate's Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance, and Data Security hearing. The subcommittee has jurisdiction over the safety of youth sports including Olympics and in colleges.
May 18, 2018
Yes, there are times when humor is highly inappropriate. And a discussion about the $500 million settlement in the Larry Nassar abuse scandal is one of those times.
May 17, 2018
For some, Wednesday’s news of a $500 million settlement between Michigan State University and the 332 sexual abuse survivors of Larry Nassar may seem like the denouement of a case that captivated national attention.
May 17, 2018
NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Michigan State University interim President John Engler about the $500 million settlement for victims of university athletic doctor and convicted sex abuser Larry Nassar.
May 17, 2018
A day after MSU settled the hundreds of lawsuits filed against the university by the survivors of ex-MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar's abuse, Interim President John Engler issued a letter to the MSU community in response.
May 17, 2018
“So, I ask, how much is a little girl worth?”
Half-a-billion dollars, split 332 ways, apparently.
Four months after Rachael Denhollander posed that question during Larry Nassar’s sentencing, we have our answer.
May 16, 2018
EAST LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) - The settlement announcement took some MSU students on campus by surprise. Student leaders consider this to be a step in the right direction, but they also feel more needs to be done before real change is accomplished.
“It's definitely encouraging, it's a step forward for survivors, it's good that MSU is taking some action, but there still are a lot of concerns,” said Reclaim MSU Communications Coordinator Natalie Rogers.
May 16, 2018
My dad sat in the front seat, riding across the Michigan State campus, looking at a place he didn’t recognize anymore.
This did not look like the school he graduated from in 1953.
May 16, 2018
Victims of Lawrence G. Nassar, the Michigan State University physician who sexually abused young women under the guise of medical treatment, would receive $500 million from the university in a settlement announced on Wednesday.
May 16, 2018
East Lansing — Michigan State University has reached a $500 million settlement with 332 women and girls who said they were assaulted by disgraced former MSU sports medicine doctor Larry Nassar, according to a statement released by the women’s attorneys on Wednesday.
May 16, 2018
Rachael Denhollander's official statement regarding the MSU settlement of $500 million to Nassar survivors.
May 16, 2018
EAST LANSING - Michigan State University has agreed to a $500 million settlement with the hundreds of women and girls who say Larry Nassar sexually assaulted them, bringing to a close another aspect of the scandal now in its 20th month.
May 15, 2018
EAST LANSING - Michigan State University's legal costs related to the Larry Nassar scandal are now more than $11.3 million.
May 11, 2018
For the second time this year, a major MSU donor is under scrutiny for comments he's made about Larry Nassar's victims. While waiting with a crowd to enter a gubernatorial debate held in Grand Rapids earlier this week, Sterling Riethman, one of the 204 women and girls who gave statements earlier this year during Nassar's sentencing hearings on sexual assault charges, says she heard Peter Secchia say, "These girls are going to ruin the state of Michigan. We have to stop them."
May 10, 2018
The academic year at MSU ended last week, as it always does, with graduation ceremonies, trees blossoming on campus and selfies with Sparty.
The sunny post-graduation stroll was grander than usual Saturday afternoon. Champagne bottles piled up next to Beaumont Tower as families jockeyed for photo ops. Three grads perched on the edge of the fountain in front of the library for a photo. One of them fell into the drink and climbed out, laughing.
May 10, 2018
Victims of disgraced doctor Larry Nassar are calling for the Texas Attorney General to investigate the owners of Karolyi Ranch, the training center where many USA gymnasts were trained and sexually assaulted by the former gymnastics doctor.
May 10, 2018
Three Michigan State University administrators sat down with William Strampel in the summer of 2005, concerned about reports of inappropriate sexual comments made by Strampel, then dean of the university's College of Osteopathic Medicine, in public presentations and to students.
May 10, 2018
When John Engler took over as interim president of Michigan State University, he had a mandate from his bosses - the Board of Trustees. He was to fix problems at MSU and find settlements to the hundreds of lawsuits of the school was facing.
May 09, 2018
EAST LANSING – Former athletic director Mark Hollis and his staff failed for years to fix lax financial oversight in Michigan State University's athletic department, according to audits that reported some problems year after year.
May 09, 2018
In his proposal for “drastic remediation” released on Tuesday, Michigan State trustee Brian Mosallam went where no other official from the university has dared to go.
May 08, 2018
LANSING, Mich (WLNS) - Larry Nassar survivors were front and center today before a House committee dealing with sexual abuse reforms.
Now a Detroit lawmaker is calling the 40-bill package a form of pandering.
The Larry Nassar survivors are calling on lawmakers to protect the legal rights of sexual abuse victims by giving them more time to file law suits.
May 08, 2018
EAST LANSING - MSU Trustee Brian Mosallam has called for a new independent investigation of the university's handling of the Larry Nassar matter and the firing of any employees who "acted contrary to our values."
May 08, 2018
These days, Michigan State University is caught in a cycle of perpetual damage control.
The sports doctor Larry Nassar sexually abused young women for nearly two decades. More than a dozen people were aware. They didn’t stop it. Prosecutors say Nassar’s boss brushed off complaints. He faces sexual-misconduct allegations of his own. Several top administrators have resigned. The interim president has spent as much time on the attack as he has spent apologizing.
May 08, 2018
Michigan State trustee Brian Mosallam says he and his fellow board members that oversee the university must be held accountable for failing to properly comprehend some of the risks facing the school as the Larry Nassar scandal unfolded on campus.
May 04, 2018
East Lansing — During a subdued commencement ceremony Friday afternoon that was marked by protest, many Michigan State University graduates relished their accomplishments while showing support for the victims of Larry Nassar.
May 04, 2018
JACKSON, MI - Mitch Lyons was furious when he shoved a referee after a series of "bad calls" led to the narrow defeat of his middle school girls' basketball team five months ago, prosecutors say.
May 04, 2018
JACKSON, Mich (WLNS) - UPDATE - Opening statements have been given in the bench trial of Michigan State University trustee Mitch Lyons. Prosecutors say Lyons purposely assaulted a referee, pushing him twice, after the referee made calls that caused the basketball team Lyons was coaching (also his daughter's team) and fouled Lyons and players on the team.
May 03, 2018
Moody's Investors Service has lowered its bond rating for Michigan State University, meaning the university will no longer get the best interest rates. The rating agency also joined other rating agencies in downgrading the overall outlook for the scandal-heavy university to negative.
May 03, 2018
EAST LANSING - Testimony from two women who told investigators that former MSU dean William Strampel recruited them to be "clinical skills models" and made sexual comments to them will not be admitted during an upcoming hearing.
May 02, 2018
Michigan State University, plunged into turmoil by the Larry Nassar sex abuse scandal, admitted Tuesday that it knew about accusations of impropriety against Nassar's boss in 2015 but let him continue on as dean.
May 01, 2018
EAST LANSING - Surveys MSU collected for the 2015 performance review of William Strampel, one of Larry Nassar's former bosses, included "accounts of inappropriate remarks," the university provost confirmed in a statement issued late Tuesday.
April 26, 2018
Members of the Michigan State University's Board of Trustees are looking at two experienced university presidents to help fill an advisory role as they begin a search for a new president.
April 26, 2018
A report by the Roosevelt Institute at MSU found MSU's decision to invest in hedge funds, decrease its annual endowment and spend high amounts on interest rate swaps have harmed students and have cost the university millions.
April 26, 2018
Throughout the sexual abuse cases against ex-MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, former President Lou Anna K. Simon’s resignation, protests from the MSU community and other occurrences on campus, MSU’s Communications and Brand Strategy office, or CABS, has received a high volume of media requests.
April 26, 2018
EAST LANSING - The Michigan Attorney General's Office has moved to admit more evidence about former MSU dean William Strampel's alleged sexual misconduct.
April 25, 2018
LANSING - Angela Povilaitis, the assistant Attorney General who led the prosecution of Larry Nassar, will soon move to a new job.
Earlier this month, Povilaitis accepted a staff attorney position with the Michigan Domestic and Sexual Violence Treatment and Prevention Board. Her last day in the Michigan Attorney General's Office will be May 4.
April 25, 2018
Amanda Thomashow, the MSU graduate who in 2014 reported sexual abuse by Larry Nassar to the university, said she is considering a run for Michigan State University trustee.
April 25, 2018
Barsom is a Penn State alumnus. He graduated in 2017.
As a Penn State alumnus, I have watched the ongoing Larry Nassar calamity at MSU unfold with bewilderment. Many members of the MSU community have begun to speak eagerly of "healing," but a festering wound does not heal.
April 25, 2018
EAST LANSING, Mich (WLNS) - Amanda Thomashow, the MSU graduate and the first sexual abuse survivor to file a Title IX complaint against Larry Nassar, is laying the groundwork to run for the MSU Board of Trustees.
The 28-year-old has been spending a lot of her time engaging in advocacy work to help bring awareness to sexual assaults on campus. She's among the hundreds of Nassar survivors who continue to push for cultural change on MSU's campus.
April 24, 2018
The Lansing judge whose sentencing of Dr. Larry Nassar brought national attention to the case in January has criticized Michigan State University’s recent handling of the victims.
April 24, 2018
Over the past two years, its gymnastics, basketball and football programs have all been found to have put women in harm’s way with little consequence. Now you can add volleyball to the list, after The Associated Press reported Tuesday that Michigan State had maintained ties with a prominent youth volleyball coach for two decades after he was banned by USA Volleyball for sexually abusing teenage girls.
April 24, 2018
Michigan State University, already reeling from the scandal involving a gymnastics doctor who molested young athletes, has maintained ties to a prominent volleyball coach for decades after he was publicly accused in 1995 of sexually abusing and raping six underage girls he trained in the 1980s.
April 23, 2018
Judge Rosemarie Aquilina famously told the women assaulted by disgraced Michigan State University Doctor Larry Nassar to "go out and do your magnificent things."
For Aquilina, when it comes to MSU President John Engler and the MSU Board of Trustees, they can just go.
April 23, 2018
Not far from Michigan State University’s Spartan Stadium and the bridge over the Red Cedar River is a maple tree with a teal-colored mesh bow wrapped around it.
April 23, 2018
Some students, survivors and other members of the community want the Board of Trustees and Interim President John Engler to resign, and in demand for better leadership on campus, they gathered on Friday to express their disappointment.
April 21, 2018
EAST LANSING, Michigan (WJRT) - (04/20/2018) - Survivors of the Larry Nassar sexual assault scandal and a coalition of students, faculty and staff at Michigan State University are demanding that the MSU Board of Trustees and interim President John Engler resign.
April 20, 2018
EAST LANSING, Mich. (WXYZ) - The fallout from the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal continues on the campus of Michigan State University as survivors, students, alumni and family came together to speak out at a rally against the Board of Trustees.
April 21, 2018
“Spartans deserve better.”
That was the message at a rally at Michigan State University Friday night. About 100 students, community members and sexual assault survivors came out to call for the resignations of the entire Board of Trustees and Interim President John Engler.
April 20, 2018
When she first came up with the #MeToo concept while working with youth of color dealing with sexual abuse, Tarana Burke had no idea the phrase would ever be the viral concept it is today.
April 20, 2018
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- More than 100 people gathered Friday night at the steps of the administration building on Michigan State's campus to call for the resignations of interim university president John Engler and the school's board of trustees.
April 20, 2018
Kaylee Lorincz began her speech in front of an upside down Michigan State University flag, tied to the central pillar of the Hannah Administration Building entryway with a teal ribbon and caution tape.
Lorincz is a survivor of abuse at the hands of Larry Nassar. Last week, she confronted interim MSU President John Engler at a Board of Trustees meeting over a settlement offer she said he extended during a meeting last month, a meeting that Engler said he remembers differently.
April 20, 2018
EAST LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) - “We do not want you here anymore, what you have done is make this university unfortunately ashamed of itself!”
Dozens of students, faculty and community members gathered in front of the Hannah Administration Building on MSU’s campus on Friday demanding change in the leadership at the university.
April 20, 2018
JACKSON, MI - When she is called, sometimes before dawn, Michigan State University senior Anna Cumming goes to a secluded hospital wing and tries to make sexual assault survivors undergoing medical examinations feel less alone.
April 20, 2018
Whether you liked his policies or not, there’s no doubt John Engler was an enormously effective governor a quarter-century ago. He knew the Legislature and how it worked.
April 20, 2018
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., addressed reporters in a press teleconference on Wednesday. During the call, Stabenow took questions about her outlook on MSU, an institution that continues to grapple with repercussions from ex-MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.
April 19, 2018
A new lawsuit has been filed against Nassar, USA Gymnastics, the United States Olympic Committee, and MSU. However, this is the first complaint filed including the International Federation of Gymnastics as a defendant.
April 19, 2018
This is disgusting. No, this is not an apology. The problem isn't that we "felt bad" Ms. Viventi. The problem is that you LIED to the MSU Board.
1. Kaylee and her mom were never trying to keep the meeting "confidential". In fact, they had talked many times with me and other survivors about their desire to meet with President Engler to discuss the cultural problems at MSU. It was a desire many of us shared, and had expressed or requested directly to President Engler.
April 20, 2018
EAST LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Survivors of Larry Nassar's abuse are expected to join MSU students on Friday in demanding the university's Board of Trustees and Interim President John Engler to step down.
April 19, 2018
Rachael Denhollander, the first woman to publicly come forward with allegations of abuse by ex-MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, is now considered by TIME Magazine to be one of the world's 100 most influential people.
April 19, 2018
EAST LANSING - Before the popularization of Twitter and hashtags, Tarana Burke was sowing the seeds of what would become an international movement.
“How much is a little girl worth?” That’s the simple yet powerful question Rachael Denhollander posed to a packed Michigan courtroom in January. Rachael, like so many of us, was a victim of Larry Nassar, the former USA Gymnastics and Olympic team doctor, and she was the first to draw public attention to his sexual abuse. But through her strength and resolve, she is a survivor.
April 19, 2018
Long-time Michigan State University faculty members Bonnie Knutson and Michael Kaplowitz have been named MSU's new faculty athletic representatives.
They will serve as senior advisers to the MSU president and director of intercollegiate athletics on matters related to intercollegiate athletics, sports programming, student-athlete academic progress, student-athlete welfare and athletic compliance issues.
April 18, 2018
Last week, Lindsey Lemke attended the Michigan State University Athletic Gala, a dinner the university hosts for student athletes with GPAs above a 3.0.
The gymnast was thrilled and grateful for a night out to celebrate her academic accomplishments. After all, this year has been anything but easy. Lemke is a “Sister Survivor,” the moniker ascribed to the 256 survivors of Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse who have spent the last 18 months fighting — not just for justice for Nassar, but for accountability of those that enabled his crimes. She’s one of only a handful of Nassar survivors who is still a student at MSU.
April 18, 2018
A coalition of proponents for change at Michigan State University will hold a “Rally for Resignations” on Friday amid continued scrutiny over how Interim President John Engler and the Board of Trustees are addressing campus sexual assault in the wake of the Larry Nassar sex abuse scandal.
April 18, 2018
EAST LANSING - Survivors of Larry Nassar's abuse and their families will join students at Michigan State University on Friday to demand members of the Board of Trustees and interim President John Engler step down.
April 18, 2018
In e-mails sent to the MSU Board of Trustees over the weekend, Interim President John Engler’s special counsel criticized Larry Nassar's survivors as willing to make outlandish statements in public to drive up settlement amounts and said a claim by one of them that Engler had offered her $250,000 is “fake news.”
April 17, 2018
The Michigan State University faculty senate on Tuesday endorsed a proposal to create a University Board to allow students and faculty to play a role in the process of searching for and selecting a new president.
April 17, 2018
Lansing area native and Olympic gold medal gymnast Jordyn Wieber has filed a lawsuit against Michigan State University, USA Gymnastics, theU.S. Olympic Committee and others over sexual abuse by Larry Nassar.
April 17, 2018
EAST LANSING - Members of Michigan State University’s Faculty Senate voted Tuesday to endorse a plan to ensure student and faculty involvement in the process of choosing the university's next president along with other proposed changes to the university’s bylaws.
April 17, 2018
Michigan State University's alumni executive director is under investigation by the school's Title IX office and has resigned, the school confirmed to the Free Press.
April 17, 2018
Here are six takeaways from Interim President John Engler’s contract. The State News obtained the contract through a Freedom of Information Act request.
April 16, 2018
East Lansing — The identity of the women whose complaints prompted charges against Larry Nassar’s former boss will remain protected throughout the court case, according to an order signed Monday by 54B District Judge Andrea Larkin.
April 15, 2018
The first two weeks of my Winter semester were not as I’d imagined them in my childhood. I’d pictured montages of romanticized dreary winters spent studying, sheltered in the stinging warmth of a dimly-lit dorm room, and wandering through snow-smothered sidewalks to meet up with friends for a caffeine fix.
April 15, 2018
NEW YORK — Nearly one in five girls between the ages of 14 to 17 has been the victim of a sexual assault or attempted sexual assault. Chessy Prout is one of those girls.
But don’t call her a statistic.
April 14, 2018
Now we know why Michigan State’s interim president, John Engler, tapped an ol’ Republican hand to head government relations at the school. He understands politics well enough to know they’ll need the help.
And the politics surrounding the aftershocks of the Larry Nassar sexual-abuse scandal are very simple: someone must pay.
April 13, 2018
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – After what unfolded during the MSU Board of Trustee meeting on Friday, 6 News reached out to Jamie White, a Lansing area attorney representing more than four dozens survivors of Larry Nassar to hear his perspective.
White says he was shocked when his client Kaylee Lorincz told him of her surprise meeting with Interim MSU President John Engler, but what's even more alarming is that he says Lorincz isn't the first survivor that Engler has tried to reach a deal with.
April 13, 2018
Somehow, Michigan State keeps making the worst sexual assault scandal in the history of U.S. sports even worse.
On Friday, after a week in which Michigan State officials revealed identifying information about a gang rape survivor, some of the more than 250 victims of former Michigan State doctor Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse confronted the MSU Board of Trustees and Interim President John Engler at a packed board meeting on campus.
April 13, 2018
Michigan State University's leaders faced a hostile audience Friday, as students and victims of former sports medicine doctor Larry Nassar criticized administrators for being more concerned with protecting the university's brand and finances than supporting sexual assault survivors.
April 13, 2018
The Michigan State University Interim President has responded to an allegation he offered a Larry Nassar survivor $250,000 to settle her case.
Engler said in a statement from WLNS that he remembered a different meeting than Kaylee Lorincz and he is "sorry if anything said during" their meeting was "misunderstood."
April 14, 2018
EAST LANSING – Michigan State University’s failures in responding to and preventing sexual assault are larger than interim President John Engler. They are too ingrained to pin on an elected, volunteer and part-time board of trustees.
April 14, 2018
John Engler must go.
If that wasn’t abundantly clear before Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting, it should be now.
Michigan State hired the three-time former governor as the interim president in January to guide the reeling university in the wake of the biggest college sexual abuse scandal in modern history. Engler had political clout, name recognition and deep institutional ties to MSU, and though there was an almost immediate backlash to his appointment, he vowed to bring chang
April 13, 2018
The Larry Nassar scandal has been so horrific and so horrible that new shock and outrage didn’t seem possible. Then Kaylee Lorincz stepped to a lectern at a Michigan State Board of Trustees meeting on Friday and told a story that ought to lead to a sweeping removal of university leadership.
Lorincz is 18. When she was 13, Nassar, then a doctor in the Michigan State College of Osteopathic Medicine, began sexually abusing her after she came to him as a patient.
April 13, 2018
EAST LANSING, Mich. - An 18-year-old sexual abuse victim of former Michigan State doctor Larry Nassar is accusing the university's interim president of trying to secretly pay her off, according to her lawyer.
Kaylee Lorincz told the Michigan State University board of trustees during Friday's meeting that President John Engler tried to secretly settle her civil suit against MSU for $250,000 without her attorney being present.
April 13, 2018
You might think the worst was now over for Michigan State. Larry Nassar is in prison, presumably for life. The university president who failed to get control of the scandal has been driven out of office, and one of the most powerful political figures in Michigan history is in charge of cleaning up the mess and moving on.
April 13, 2018
Four floors below a heated MSU Board of Trustees meeting — where survivors of ex-MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse Morgan McCaul and Kaylee Lorincz were scheduled to speak — something was missing. The signs from all those who came to protest stood on the front steps, and several parents of survivors stood in the lobby.
April 13, 2018
East Lansing -- Michigan State University's interim president and Board of Trustees faced angry victims of Larry Nassar, their parents and supporters during a tumultuous meeting Friday that exposed how raw emotions remain as the university struggles to cope with the sex abuse scandal's aftermath.
April 13, 2018
Kaylee Lorincz, a survivor of former MSU sports doctor Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse, accused Michigan State University Interim President John Engler of privately offering her a $250,000 check to drop her civil lawsuit against the school.
Lorincz says she told Engler it “wasn’t about the money.”
“Well give me a number then,” Engler replied, according to Lorincz’s allegations.
April 13, 2018
Michigan State University Interim President John Engler told the Board of Trustees Friday he "regrets" Wednesday's response to an alleged rape victim's federal lawsuit. The student claims she was discouraged by school counselors from reporting her assault in 2015.
April 13, 2018
EAST LANSING - A survivor of abuse at the hands of former Michigan State University doctor Larry Nassar said Friday that interim President John Engler offered her $250,000 during a sit-down meeting where they discussed what the university has done in the wake of the Nassar scandal.
April 12, 2018
The Michigan State University Board of Trustees holds its final meeting of this school year on Friday after what was arguably the most damaging year in MSU history in the wake of the Larry Nassar scandal.
April 12, 2018
Larissa Boyce says she told a Michigan State University coach in 1997, but it stopped there.
Tiffany Thomas Lopez says she told MSU athletic trainers in 1999 and 2000, but it stopped there.
Amanda Thomashow says she told an MSU Title IX investigator in 2014, but it stopped there.
The complaints these women raised weren't trivial, isolated or rare. They were telling the university one of its prized doctors, Larry Nassar, was a serial molester.
At its core, the campus wasn't safe.
April 12, 2018
Student group Reclaim MSU’s quest for community involvement in selecting MSU’s next president faces several hurdles — but the group is diligently taking steps forward.
April 12, 2018
Survivor of ex-MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar's sexual abuse and University of Michigan freshman Morgan McCaul plans to address MSU's Board of Trustees at its next meeting on Friday.
April 12, 2018
Michigan State University likely violated at least one federal student privacy law, and maybe another campus crime reporting law, when it issued a statement Wednesday detailing counseling center visits by a student who is suing the school, experts said.
April 11, 2018
EAST LANSING, Mich. (WSYM) - Survivors made a big step in their healing as they climbed up to the podium to share their personal stories of abuse.
“But I also stand before you as a little girl, the one who at only 12-years-old was sexually abused by Larry Nassar on this very campus”, Morgan McCaul announced to the crowd.
STATEMENT ON FEDERAL LAWSUIT (APR. 11, 2018)
April 11, 2018
Late Monday afternoon, Apr. 9, 2018, MSU was notified that a Jane Doe filed a lawsuit against the university and “Unidentified Roes” (employees or counselors of the MSU Counseling Center) claiming that she was raped by three unnamed MSU athletes and, when she sought help, the university convinced her not to take her case to the authorities. The media has taken these allegations about MSU’s response to her assault as established fact. Unfortunately, they are untrue.
April 10, 2018
EAST LANSING - Larry Nassar recommended at least one physician to participate in a 2014 internal sexual assault investigation prompted by a complaint about him, newly released records show.
April 09, 2018
Three former men's basketball players allegedly raped a woman after the team's Final Four run in 2015, according to a federal lawsuit filed Monday.
The lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan Southern Division, alleges three unnamed players — named John Doe 1, John Doe 2 and John Doe 3 in the lawsuit — took an 18-year-old female journalism freshman home from Harper's between the evening of April 11, 2015, and the morning of April 12 and raped her.
April 09, 2018
Take Back the Night, an annual event with a goal to “shed a light on the prevalence of domestic and sexual violence” will take place at the Union from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday.
April 09, 2018
Michigan State University’s campus counseling center discouraged a female student from contacting police after she claimed she was raped by three prominent basketball players, according to her complaint Monday filed in federal court.
April 09, 2018
Three Michigan State basketball players raped a student in 2015, one week after the Final Four loss to Duke, and the university coerced the woman not to report it to authorities, according to a federal lawsuit filed Monday.
April 09, 2018
Michigan State University students are speaking out on a lawsuit filed by one of their own.
The student is suing the university, claiming she was raped by three basketball players and when she to school counselors for help, they discouraged her from reporting it to police.
April 09, 2018
As early as 2004, former Michigan State University President Lou Anna K. Simon learned of concerns about Dr. William Strampel, longtime dean of MSU's College of Osteopathic Medicine, according to a document released Monday by MSU.
April 09, 2018
When Lisa Brown was a security guard on the night shift for Samuel-Whittar Steel’s Detroit plant, a foreman often made sexually suggestive comments to her when they were alone, she alleged in a lawsuit.
April 07, 2018
What are the consequences of leading a university that is so badly mismanaged that it allowed one of the most prolific campus sexual predators in American history to operate undeterred for two decades, and then, when he was discovered, ignored the victims and concentrated solely on mitigating the legal damages?
April 07, 2018
After months of deflecting questions about its response to the Larry Nassar controversy, attorneys for Michigan State University provided detailed responses to 30 questions posed by state lawmakers as part of an inquiry by the state House.
April 06, 2018
EAST LANSING (WILX) A multi-million dollar program that gave economically disadvantaged students from Africa full ride scholarships to Michigan State University is now over, after the Mastercard Foundation decided to 'terminate their agreements' with the school.
April 05, 2018
The Michigan House of Representatives released the findings from its inquiry into MSU's response to accusations of sexual abuse against ex-MSU doctor Larry Nassar Thursday afternoon.
April 05, 2018
Former Dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine William Strampel was arrested March 26 and faces four charges. His charges include fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony count of misconduct in office and two misdemeanors of willful neglect.
April 05, 2018
Simon still has a tenured professorship at the university. Her contract guarantees her 12 months of research leave immediately following her resignation as president, during which time she is receiving 100% of her base presidential salary of $750,000.
April 05, 2018
Michigan State University fostered a culture that was more focused on protecting the school than the survivors of serial abuser Larry Nassar, a report released Thursday by the Michigan House of Representatives said.
April 05, 2018
A state House inquiry released today found Michigan State University failed to properly investigate or protect students from Larry Nassar, the former sports doctor recently convicted of sexually assaulting patients under the guise of treatment. A letter detailing the findings of the inquiry says at least 243 survivors have now reported Nassar to MSU Police.
April 05, 2018
Lansing — Larry Nassar was able to brazenly abuse women for decades because Michigan State University failed to properly pursue complaints, destroyed vital documents and allowed the disgraced doctor to exploit loopholes in university policies to avoid scrutiny, Michigan House lawmakers said Thursday.
April 05, 2018
To wrap up the It's On Us Week of Action, students will create a giant human teal ribbon Friday.
The human ribbon will be created from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at Spartan Stadium.
April 05, 2018
Larry Nassar’s trash can was sitting near the curb.
Inside his white, one-story home, police were searching the living room, the bedrooms.
And they were searching the basement, because a woman named Kyle Stephens had recently told Michigan State University Police Det. Lt. Andrea Munford that Nassar had sexually abused her there for years, starting when she was 6.
April 04, 2018
CNN released a report on March 30 looking into John Geddert, famed Olympic coach and previous owner of Twistars Gymnastics Club, and alleged verbal and emotional abuse against gymnasts.
April 03, 2018
The excerpts from Dr. William Strampel’s performance review raise a critical question: What’s it take to get fired from Michigan State University? The former dean of the MSU osteopathic program was subjected to an extensive evaluation process in 2010 in which the university invited comments from his peers, students and others with whom he had interactions.
April 02, 2018
As a student at Michigan State University's College of Osteopathic Medicine, Nicole Janowicz Eastman says she felt "humiliated" to be sexually harassed by the college's dean, Dr. William Strampel.
April 02, 2018
This week, students from hundreds of college campuses across the country are holding awareness drives, active bystander and consent trainings, and large scale events to raise awareness about how to end sexual assault on their campus. The events are part of the It’s On Us Spring Week of Action. It’s On Us was founded over three years ago to raise up the issue of sexual assault on college campuses and give students real tools and resources to do something about it.
April 02, 2018
Before the FBI arrested Larry Nassar for child pornography possession in December 2016, he was googling “Is it illegal to not use gloves with intravaginal manipulations,” “intravaginal manipulations for back pain,” “vaginal massage,” and “Pubic Hair Removal Demonstration (18+) YouTube,” as police discovered after pulling 57,000 pages of search history from Nassar’s cell phone and laptop.
April 02, 2018
The MSU Board of Trustees said it will hire an adviser as a guide for the search for a new university president.
April 02, 2018
Many people affiliated with the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine regarded former Dean William Strampel as a visionary leader and a well-spoken champion of the school.
March 31, 2018
Just two months after naming an interim president at Michigan State University, there are now reports that the Board of Trustees is beginning to interview executive search firms to find a permanent president. Based on our research, we’d like to provide some advice to the board and the MSU community.
March 31, 2018
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) - In a recent statewide poll organized by “Marketing Resource Group (MRG), many Michigan voters agree that the Michigan State University Board of Trustees should step down after their handling of the Larry Nassar abuse scandal.
April 18, 2018
Through action and inaction, MSU’s leaders have helped to create and facilitate a campus climate that supports sexual assault. The term “rape culture” describes an environment in which rape and sexual violence are normalized and accepted events. The two most prominent characteristics of rape culture are an unwillingness to believe victims of sexual violence (who are mostly women) and a lack of accountability for offenders (who are mostly men). Both of these elements exist in MSU’s campus culture.
March 30, 2018
Both Reclaim MSU and the Associated Students of Michigan State University, or ASMSU, have proposed separate amendments to the Michigan constitution in an effort to get students a seat on the Board of Trustees.
March 30, 2018
Sex education classes in Maryland would have to include instruction on consent under a bill that is moving through the General Assembly, a measure an advocate called “one of the most important things that we can do to prevent college sexual assaults.”
March 30, 2018
Michigan State University paid a public relations company $517,343 to monitor and track social media activity surrounding the recent Larry Nassar sexual abuse case, the Lansing State Journal reported on Wednesday.
March 29, 2018
Republican former Governor John Engler has come under heavy criticism on whether his track record lends itself to being the proper leader for a university searching for its identity post-Larry Nassar sex abuse scandal, and his latest recorded comments calling distinguished female professors at Michigan State University “girls” isn’t helping.
March 30, 2018
Two Michigan State University employees who allegedly were aware of complaints years ago against Larry Nassar are still on the job, raising continuing questions about the university’s response to abuses by the former Olympic doctor that go back decades.
March 29, 2018
LANSING - William Strampel began a meeting in the spring of 2010 by announcing that he’d been told he wasn’t allowed to refer to students in the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine as his children anymore.
March 29, 2018
Michigan State University’s credit rating outlook was revised to negative from stable by S&P Global Ratings as the school faces mounting scrutiny and financial obligations from sexual assault litigation against former Olympic gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.
March 29, 2018
The public relations firm hired by Michigan State University to track online activity related to former sports doctor Larry Nassar in January says it was hired for "crisis counsel."
March 29, 2018
SAN ANTONIO — Michigan State’s basketball team did not make it to the Final Four.
However, the university’s handling of the Larry Nassar situation was among the topics NCAA president Mark Emmert and Division I Board of Directors chairman Eric W. Kaler addressed during a news conference on Thursday at the Alamodome.
March 29, 2018
Interim President John Engler answered questions from students at an informal meeting held Thursday by the Associated Students of Michigan State University, or ASMSU.
March 29, 2018
Walking to class at Michigan State University feels the same as it always has; headphones in, coat turned up against the cold March wind, backpack heavy with books. But something is different. Crossing the bridge over the Red Cedar River, I pass teal ribbons rippling in the breeze. These same ribbons, which wrap around trees in front of the Hannah Administration Building and are pinned to backpacks and shirts of students and faculty, represent solidarity with the hundreds of survivors sexually assaulted by former MSU doctor and USA gymnastics coach Larry Nassar.
March 28, 2018
A tweet that revealed purportedly racist sentiments by an MSU student drew intense social media attention — and prompted the university to issue a response to the incident
March 28, 2018
MSU and others sued by the survivors of ex-MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse have agreed to return to a mediation phase in lawsuits.
March 28, 2018
In a way, the news that the longtime dean of Michigan State University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine has been charged with criminal sexual conduct may be even worse than the revelations about Larry Nassar. MSU’s line all along has been that Nassar, the former sports medicine doctor who molested hundreds of women, was an anomaly.
March 28, 2018
“I think she knew her time was up,” said Larissa Boyce, 37. Boyce filed her lawsuit on Jan. 31, 2017, the same day Klages told police she’d been deceived, and included an allegation that Klages did nothing after Boyce told the coach in 1997 that Nassar was molesting her.
March 28, 2018
EAST LANSING - A public relations firm billed MSU for more than $500,000 for January as it tracked social media activity surrounding the Larry Nassar case, which often included the accounts of victims and their families, journalists, celebrities and politicians.
March 27, 2018
Looks like the fox was guarding the henhouse.
That's clear if the accusations are true about William Strampel, the former dean of the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Strampel was charged Tuesday in East Lansing District Court with misconduct in office, fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct and two counts of willful neglect of duty in connection with the Larry Nassar scandal.
March 27, 2018
The fallout from the Larry Nassar scandal at Michigan State University continues. Nassar’s boss and former Dean of MSU's College of Osteopathic Medicine, William Strampel, was arrested late Monday and arraigned Tuesday on felony and misdemeanor charges.
March 27, 2018
Four alleged victims detailed multiple incidents alleging sexual misconduct against former MSU dean William Strampel in a sworn affidavit, who oversaw the College of Osteopathic Medicine and supervised ex-MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.
March 27, 2018
Lansing — Larry Nassar’s former boss used his position at Michigan State University to harass, discriminate, proposition, sexually assault and solicit pornographic videos of female students, investigators said Tuesday as they announced criminal charges against William Strampel.
March 27, 2018
The execution of a search warrant at the Hannah Administration Building in early February led to charges against former MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine Dean William Strampel, Special Counsel William Forsyth announced at a press conference Tuesday.
March 27, 2018
A sexual-abuse scandal at Michigan State University widened Tuesday as authorities charged a medical school official with failing to keep former sports doctor Larry Nassar in line and accused him of groping female students and storing nude student selfies on his campus computer.
March 27, 2018
EAST LANSING, MI - Former dean of the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine William Strampel is expected to be arraigned on charges including criminal sexual conduct in East Lansing District Court on Tuesday afternoon.
March 27, 2018
EAST LANSING, Mich - A Michigan State University official who oversaw a clinic where former sports doctor Larry Nassar worked is facing criminal charges for allegedly inappropriately touching a student and storing nude photos of female students on his work computer.
March 26, 2018
The former boss of convicted sexual abuser Larry Nassar was arrested Monday in Michigan.
William Strampel, who served as the dean of Michigan State's osteopathic medical school for most of Nassar's time with the university, was listed as an inmate at Ingham County Jail on Monday night. No specific charges were posted Monday night, and a message left with a spokesman for the state police was not immediately returned.
March 26, 2018
LANSING - Former MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine dean William Strampel was lodged in the Ingham County Jail on Monday, the night before a planned update from the Attorney General's Office on its investigation of the university.
March 26, 2018
Michigan State University will soon add four new employees to its Sexual Assault Program, thanks to grant funding from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Victim Services, Crime Victim Services Commission. The funds will cover the addition of two therapists and two victim advocates.
March 25, 2018
Students, faculty and community members who rallied with Reclaim MSU called for change and transparency from the MSU Board of Trustees at the Hannah Administration Building on Friday. While carrying upside down Spartan helmet posters and wrapping teal ribbons around railings, participants listened to speeches from members of the MSU community.
March 25, 2018
Financial fallout from sexual-abuse allegations against former U.S. national gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar will likely soar well past half a billion dollars for Michigan State University, estimates from legal experts indicate, more than twice the cost of the abuse scandal at Pennsylvania State University.
March 23, 2018
MSU Interim President John Engler announced the creation of the "Office of Civil Rights and Title IX Education and Compliance" Friday afternoon, an executive office meant to restructure MSU's Title IX and prevention apparatus.
March 23, 2018
About 40 to 50 protesters, some holding hand-drawn signs, gathered in front of the Hannah Administration Building on Friday evening.
ReclaimMSU calls itself an alliance of students, faculty, staff and alumni. Rogers, the group's communications coordinator, described it as a grassroots campaign led by about 30 "superactive" members.
March 23, 2018
At the end of January, Lou Anna K. Simon resigned from her position as the president of Michigan State University amidst the fallout from Larry Nassar’s sexual assaults conviction.
At the time, despite a tone-deaf statement from Simon, Michigan State seemed to finally be reckoning with its role in enabling Nassar’s sexual abuse of more than 250 victims, many under the guise of medical treatment, on MSU’s campus.
March 23, 2018
Reclaim MSU has been critical of the choice of John Engler as interim president, the university’s response to Larry Nassar survivors, and the possibility of higher tuition in the wake of any Nassar-related legal settlements.
March 22, 2018
In the wake of allegations of MSU's mishandling of the ex-MSU doctor Larry Nassar sexual abuse case, legislation has already been introduced on both the statewide and national level to ensure a similar situation will never happen again.
March 22, 2018
Calling for community inclusion, campus group ReclaimMSU is rallying Friday from 5 to 8 p.m at the Hannah Administration Building. The framework of students, alumni, staff and faculty who make up ReclaimMSU are demanding the Board of Trustees change their bylaws to include the community in their selection of a new president.
March 22, 2018
Former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said Michigan State University interim President John Engler “personally lobbied against” Larry Nassar’s victims when he spoke out against a package of sexual assault reforms in the Legislature
March 22, 2018
Activist Tarana Burke, who created the#MeToo movement in 2006 to bring awareness and empathy to sexual abuse and assault survivors, is coming in April to speak at Michigan State University.
March 22, 2018
EAST LANSING - Olympic gold medalist and Lansing area native Jordyn Wieber criticized MSU interim President John Engler during a speech Thursday evening and called on him to begin working with the women and girls Larry Nassar abused.
March 19, 2018
East Lansing, Mich.—The chairman of Michigan State University’s Board of Trustees said he had to get something off his chest.
It was the board’s first regularly scheduled meeting following the criminal-sentencing hearings of the former sports-medicine doctor Larry Nassar. And Brian Breslin, facing an overwhelming vote of no confidence from the university’s faculty, had already indicated he would not step down. But then he struck a different tone. Breslin’s “conscience would bother [him],” he said, if he didn’t speak his mind.
March 19, 2018
Larry Nassar’s longtime boss at Michigan State University told a group of students and administrators in the fall of 2016 that he did not believe female patients who alleged repeated sexual abuse by the former U.S. national gymnastics team doctor, according to two people who said they heard the comments.
March 19, 2018
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March 19, 2018
East Lansing — Michigan State University student Natalie Rogers can’t understand the focus of interim President John Engler as he works to lead the university past the Larry Nassar scandal.
March 19, 2018
Larry Nassar’s longtime boss at Michigan State University told a group of students and administrators in the fall of 2016 that he did not believe female patients who alleged repeated sexual abuse by the former U.S. national gymnastics team doctor, according to two people who said they heard the comments.
March 16, 2018
Rachael Denhollander couldn’t sleep. With her 25th birthday fast approaching, she had just days left before she ran out of time to file a police report against then-celebrated USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.
March 15, 2018
The money needed for any settlements in lawsuits filed against Michigan State University by victims of Larry Nassar will likely come from students and Michigan taxpayers, MSU interim President John Engler said Thursday.
March 15, 2018
EAST LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Students are sounding off after Michigan State University’s Interim President John Engler told a senate subcommittee that student tuition might go up to help the university pay for lawsuits in the Larry Nassar scandal.
News 10's Cryss Walker spoke with one MSU student who says enough is enough.
21-year-old Kaira Hammond says the idea of a tuition increase to cover lawsuit pay-outs is unfair.
“Students shouldn't be at fault”, said Hammond.
March 15, 2018
LANSING, MICH.
Michigan State University's interim president told state lawmakers Thursday that he wants to reach a financial settlement with victims of imprisoned sports doctor Larry Nassar by May, but said their passage of sweeping child abuse legislation is interfering with the process and could lead to higher tuition.
March 15, 2018
Lansing — Interim President John Engler on Thursday argued lawmakers slowed and “interfered” in settlement talks with Larry Nassar sexual abuse victims by taking up legislation he said gives attorneys more leverage in negotiations with Michigan State University.
March 15, 2018
State senators will grill Michigan State University President John Engler Thursday during a higher education subcommittee meeting. The testimony is set to begin at 1:45 p.m.
March 14, 2018
The Ingham County Prosecutor's Office is creating an additional assistant prosecutor's position to handle "the increased workload of sexual assault cases filed with our office," according to a press release.
March 14, 2018
LANSING, Mich. -- The Michigan Senate on Wednesday passed bills inspired by the Larry Nassar sexual abuse case, voting to retroactively give survivors of the imprisoned sports doctor's abuse and other accusers more time to sue, restrict the ability of governments to claim immunity from lawsuits and require more people to report suspected abuse to authorities.
Judge Aquilina eyes symbolic hearing for more abuse survivors
March 14, 2018
Seven weeks after more than 150 victims of Larry Nassar testified before Judge Rosemarie Aquilina at a remarkable sentencing hearing in Michigan, other women from around the country are sharing stories of sex abuse with her.
March 14, 2018
eadership at Michigan State University needs to abandon its adversarial legal approach toward survivors of Larry Nassar and the culture that allowed him to hurt people for so long. Though Interim President John Engler has made some changes, the university's legal approach has not changed. The current path won’t work — not for MSU and certainly not for the survivors who shouldn’t be dragged through years of litigation.
March 14, 2018
Students from schools across Michigan are planning to participate in the National School Walkout this morning to honor the 17 victims of the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., and to call for an end to gun violence in schools.
March 12, 2018
Participating in political activism may be good for our teenagers, according to a new research report.
The study, published in January in the journal Child Development, found that late adolescents and young adults who voted, volunteered or engaged in activism ultimately went further in school and had higher incomes than those who did not mobilize for political or social change.
March 12, 2018
(CNN)It's been nearly a month since Nikolas Cruz stormed into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with an AR-15-style rifle and killed 17 students and faculty members.
In the weeks since the shooting in Parkland, Florida, survivors and their allies have turned their grief into activism and advocacy. Part of that effort is Wednesday's national school walkout.
Here's what you should know:
March 12, 2018
LANSING, Mich. (AP) – Michigan’s 15 public universities are asking the state Legislature to delay voting on bills inspired by the Larry Nassar sexual abuse case, expressing concern about measures that would retroactively extend the time victims would have to file lawsuits and remove an immunity defense for governmental agencies.
March 10, 2018
At Freedom High School in Loudoun County, students plan to walk laps for 17 minutes around the school’s track in memory of the 17 lives lost in a massacre last month at a Florida high school.
March 08, 2018
The phone rang. It was Dr. Larry Nassar.
"Hey, man, what’s going on?" Dr. Steven Karageanes recalls saying.
Nassar got straight to the point: "I just wanted to call and let you know that I’ve been accused of sexual assault."
March 07, 2018
The Michigan State University Board of Trustees — facing hundreds of lawsuits, numerous investigations and calls for members to resign in the wake of the Larry Nassar scandal — has retained another $990-an-hour law firm to represent its interests.
March 06, 2018
Michigan State University Interim President John Engler turned once again to a longtime political ally Tuesday, announcing that Kathleen Wilbur would replace Mark Burnham and take an expanded role including the university’s top lobbyist job.
March 07, 2018
Michigan State University's Board of Trustees, under fire for its lack of action during the Larry Nassar case, has hired a high-powered law firm to represent the eight members of the board.
The firm, Akin Gump, will represent just the board, not the general university. MSU Interim President John Engler has hired several firms to represent the university.
March 06, 2018
EAST LANSING - Michigan State University announced the hiring of two new executives on Tuesday, the latest in an ongoing series of leadership changes.
March 04, 2018
As Michigan State University works to stem the fallout over the Larry Nassar sex-abuse scandal, another challenge is waiting in the not-too-distant future: launching a search for its next president.
March 02, 2018
Look up, not down, in the scandal buffeting Michigan State. If the school’s ongoing legal torment over Larry Nassar is at all instructional, if there is anything useful to learn from its example, it’s that an organization gets into this kind of all-encompassing legal trouble not because of a single perpetrator but because of a pervasive attitude, an apathy or a blindness, at the very top.
March 02, 2018
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (AP) — Two people who weren’t students were fatally shot at a Central Michigan University residence hall on Friday, prompting officials to put the campus on lockdown as police searched for a 19-year-old suspect described as armed and dangerous, officials said.
March 02, 2018
Justin Johnson was raised a Spartan.
As a child, he lived at Cherry Lane/Faculty Bricks, a now-demolished housing unit for married students, he said.
After graduating from MSU in 2001, teaching English in Japan and running his family-owned metal-stamping company, Jordan Manufacturing Company, for 11 years, Johnson has returned and wants to help fix the culture at his alma mater.
March 02, 2018
A male gymnast alleges in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that he was sexually abused by Larry Nassar, becoming the first known male victim to file suit against the former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State team doctor.
March 01, 2018
RCGV faculty, students and staff join the rest of the MSU community in being outraged not only at Larry Nassar’s crimes against so many women and girls, but at how MSU handled this crisis and others involving gender-based violence over the years. We are optimistic and support the administration’s efforts to make meaningful change and transformation toward creating a culture that is safe, supportive, and inclusive for all and especially survivors and those at risk for sexual assault and gender-based violence.
March 01, 2018
The Associated Students of Michigan State University, or ASMSU, decided not to move forward with a bill that would call for the immediate resignations of the MSU Board of Trustees and Interim President John Engler during its policy committee meeting on Feb. 22.
March 01, 2018
Multiple organizations in the Lansing area have seen increased awareness around sexual assault as a result of the scandals that have rocked MSU, and have offered assistance to survivors of violence.
February 28, 2018
Kent Cassella, associate vice president for media communications and senior public relations strategist at MSU, said he will leave the university at the end of the week.
Michigan State Faculty Senate calls on entire Board of Trustees to resign
February 27, 2018
EAST LANSING - Michigan State University's Faculty Senate called on the university's entire Board of Trustees to step down Tuesday.
February 27, 2018
In the midst of the fallout from the Larry Nassar scandal, I personally needed something positive to focus on. In the midst of the #meetoo movement and the locally-intense coverage and daily discussions about sexual violence, I was also aware that there was an increased demand for off-campus local services for survivors of sexual violence, including for students who didn’t have faith in campus organizations. At the same time, I heard from students and also experienced myself a sense of unease about wearing green and white off campus.
February 27, 2018
Zeke the Wonder Dog is a Michigan State University staple; everyone and anyone who wears the colors of green and white knows about him. This is why we’re so disappointed that he wasn’t even considered in the choosing of an interim president. Zeke surely would have received a vote of full confidence, so here are some of the reasons why.
Michigan State’s Ex-President Now Holds a Prestigious Professorship. Some of Her Colleagues Aren’t Happy About It.
February 27, 2018
When Lou Anna K. Simon stepped down under pressure last month as Michigan State University’s president, she signed her resignation letter with a nod to her new faculty title: "John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor."
The Hannah professorship, named for one of Simon’s predecessors, is the highest faculty honor at the university. The posts are often awarded to star scholars as part of their recruitment to Michigan State.
That wasn’t the case with Simon. In fact, most people on campus weren’t even aware that she had been awarded the elite professorship, until she mentioned it at the time of her resignation. Now, some of her colleagues, including many members of the department she’s part of, aren’t pleased.
February 26, 2018
EAST LANSING – A 2014 sexual assault investigation of Larry Nassar by MSU’s Title IX office concluded that his conduct could open the university to lawsuits and expose patients to “unnecessary trauma based on the possibility of perceived inappropriate sexual misconduct.”...
February 26, 2018
MSU’s residential colleges will come together to host a “Teach-In/Learn-In” event Thursday at the Union from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
February 26, 2018
When Lou Anna K. Simon stepped down under pressure last month as Michigan State University’s president, she signed her resignation letter with a nod to her new faculty title: "John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor."
February 26, 2018
The federal government is sending another wave of investigators to Michigan State University to look into the university's handling of the Larry Nassar case, U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced Monday.
February 26, 2018
WASHINGTON — The Education Department said Thursday that it has opened an investigation into how Michigan State University handled allegations of sexual assault against Dr. Larry Nassar, a longtime employee who has been sentenced to decades in prison for molesting young athletes and possessing child pornography.
February 26, 2018
Michigan state Sen. Margaret O'Brien has known Rachael Denhollander for years.
When Denhollander was growing up in Kalamazoo, she worked on some of O'Brien's early political campaigns. And when, after becoming a lawyer and moving to Louisville, Ky., Denhollander decided to go public with her story of being sexually abused by former Michigan State University sports doctor Larry Nassar, she counted on that connection with O'Brien to turn the story into positive action.
February 23, 2018
Organizers of a rally against mass shootings planned for next month in Washington are expecting up to 500,000 attendees, according to an event permit application.
February 23, 2018
EAST LANSING - MSU has formed an advisory work group to help improve the university's response to sexual assault and relationship violence on campus.
February 23, 2018
Michigan State is tied to another major scandal, this time involving the FBI's probe into college basketball corruption.
February 22, 2018
EAST LANSING, MI (WLNS) – Three women who are victims of Larry Nassar, are calling on the resignation of Michigan State University Trustee Dan Kelly for the role he’s played as a private attorney for schools and districts at the center of sexual assault claims.
February 22, 2018
The sentencing of ex-MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar made headlines across the world as more than 150 survivors shared stories of Nassar’s abuse. In response, Spartans have turned to activism.
February 21, 2018
The pretrial conference for three former MSU football players accused of sexual assault was held off the record Wednesday morning.
February 21, 2018
A timeline of his decades-long career, sexual assault convictions and prison sentences
February 21, 2018
EAST LANSING - Michigan State University is embarking on its first nationwide search for a new leader in 25 years.
And it's facing one massive challenge, experts say: drawing in the best candidates amid the ongoing fallout over the abuses of former university doctor Larry Nassar.
February 21, 2018
LANSING - The cases involving sexual assault allegations against three ex-Michigan State University football players continue to move toward trial.
February 21, 2018
It’s been three weeks since former U.S. gymnastics physician Larry Nassar was sentenced to likely die in prison after more than 150 young women said he had sexually assaulted them, and there are still some questions I can’t get out of my head.
February 21, 2018
Three major student organizations on campus will host round table events on Wednesday and on Feb. 26 to discuss campus climate, sexual assault and MSU's administration.
February 20, 2018
Kyle Stephens, a survivor of sexual abuse by ex-MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, shared how her childhood trauma has impacted her as an adult and touched upon the healing process through a video on the Washington Post on Feb. 13.
February 20, 2018
The University of Michigan will now allow certain cases of sexual assault to be resolved with mediation and other methods, such as sexual violence classes for accused students, a move the university believes could help victims who don’t want to pursue an arduous formal process.
February 20, 2018
Eighty-four new cases of criminal sexual conduct have been filed with MSU Police since Jan. 16, the first day of ex-MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar's sentencing in Ingham County.
February 20, 2018
Three new lawsuits have been filed against MSU since Feb. 17, regarding the handling of ex-MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.
February 20, 2018
Michigan State University announced today a new legal team as Bob Noto announced his retirement as MSU’s vice president for legal affairs and general counsel, effective March 5, 2018.
February 20, 2018
Larry Nassar's years of abuse created an "Army of Survivors", a sisterhood of inspiring, defiant women united by a shared horror - and their courage to shine a light on it!
February 16, 2018
EAST LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Continuing our coverage of the crisis on campus, some MSU students and staff aren't happy the Board of Trustees is still on the job.
They made that statement known when they interrupted Friday's board meeting.
News 10's Alani Letang was there.
February 19, 2018
In just 12 days as interim president, John Engler made five high-level appointments and added three major contracts as he attempts to move Michigan State University past the Larry Nassar scandal.
February 17, 2018
It is the elephant in the room for anyone seeking to replace Rick Snyder. And, regardless of anyone’s view of her policies or politics, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gretchen Whitmer is pulling no punches when it comes to the calamity at Michigan State University and her thoughts on its board of trustees.
February 16, 2018
East Lansing — With many still furious over the Larry Nassar scandal, students and faculty demanded Friday that the Michigan State University Board of Trustees directly address sexual assaults before the university moves on.
February 16, 2018
The Michigan State University Board of Trustees signed off on several contracts for top administrators during its meeting Friday. But the university's newly appointed interim president - former Gov. John Engler - was not among them.
February 16, 2018
At the first MSU Board of Trustees meeting led by recently-appointed Interim President John Engler, discussions regarding student health and wellness on campus and the appointment of personnel to administrative positions took place.
February 16, 2018
EAST LANSING, Mich. (WXYZ) - Despite repeated and raucous calls for their resignation, MSU’s Board of Trustees announced at today’s meeting that they’re going nowhere.
February 16, 2018
Michigan State University trustees moved quickly to hire former Gov. John Engler as interim president - despite faculty and student opposition - because "boots on the ground" were needed to stem a leadership crisis amid the Larry Nassar sex-abuse scandal.
February 15, 2018
Ex-MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, sentenced in three separate cases to at least 100 years overall, likely won’t see the outside of a prison for the rest of his life.
February 16, 2018
EAST LANSING, Mich. (WXYZ) -A Michigan State University trustee who pledged support for victims of sex abuse has opposed them repeatedly in courtrooms as a lawyer, a 7 Action News investigation has found.
February 15, 2018
Ex-MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar will begin his life behind bars at a high-security federal prison in Tuscon, Arizona that specializes in treating sex offenders.
February 14, 2018
As former Michigan governor James Blanchard met with the Michigan State University board for two hours in late January, offering advice and talking about his alma mater, he was struck by several things — a couple of missteps by the board and an overriding fear members exhibited.
February 14, 2018
EAST LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - A member of the Michigan State University Board of Trustees is sounding off on a no confidence vote handed down Tuesday by the university's faculty senate.
Trustee Brian Mosallam tweeted the board failed them when it came to appointing Engler and he promises to work with them moving forward
February 14, 2018
Michigan State University is bringing in a Harvard-educated lawyer with roots in Detroit and Southfield to lead the effort to speed up Title IX investigations in the wake of the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal.
February 14, 2018
The Board of Trustees at Michigan State University knows exactly where they stand with the Faculty Senate.
By a vote of 61-4 yesterday, the Faculty Senate approved a vote of no-confidence in the Board.
Andaluna Borcila is an associate professor in the James Madison College at Michigan State University...
February 14, 2018
Michigan State University officials told a U.S. Senate committee this week that current and former employees who victims said were told of ex-doctor Larry Nassar's abuse "do not remember" hearing any complaints - but a victim who says she came forward in 1997 isn't buying it.
February 13, 2018
The Michigan State University Faculty Senate held an emergency meeting to hold a vote of no confidence in MSU's Board of Trustees.
The meeting began at 3:15pm at the International Center on the MSU campus. The vote of no confidence passed 61 - 4. The Senate is now calling for all members of the board to resign immediately.
February 14, 2018
During a press conference Wednesday, MSU Interim President John Engler announced new changes to MSU's administrative structure for student wellness programs, including renaming the College of Human Medicine to “College of Medicine” and the appointment of two new officials.
February 13, 2018
The Faculty Senate at Michigan State University overwhelmingly approved a measure on Tuesday expressing no confidence in the Board of Trustees — yet another sign of the tensions that have continued to simmer on the campus since the recent sentencing hearings for Larry Nassar.
February 09, 2018
Columbia University researchers are "spying" on undergraduates, the headline of a New York Post story asserted. The article, which appeared beside a page-length photo of Beyoncé cradling a chicken, criticized the methods of a new study of students’ sex lives. How the story came to be highlights the ethical and communications challenges facing the university’s up-close research project — and why that project might change our understanding of campus sexual violence.
February 01, 2018
Students, faculty and members of the community voiced their opinions at the town hall meeting hosted by MSU Trustee Brian Mosallam Thursday night.
February 01, 2018
The investigations and trials of Larry Nassar are coming to a close. The investigations and trials of Michigan State University are just beginning.
February 01, 2018
Following the revelation that 250 women and girls were sexually abused by Michigan State University sports doctor Larry Nassar, former MSU President Lou Anna Simon resigned from her post on Jan. 24.
January 29, 2018
Just days after Sue Carter resigned her position as chair of Michigan State University’s Athletic Council, in protest over the institution’s handling of its sexual abuse scandal, a former student has filed a complaint claiming Carter drew her into an inappropriate relationship more than two decades ago.
January 28, 2018
On Thursday, copies of Michigan State University’s campus newspaper sat in a stack atop the desk of Lorenzo Santavicca, the student-body president. He grabbed one and held it up. A teal banner under the nameplate read, in all caps: “Can you hear them now?”
January 28, 2018
I really can’t imagine anything like that happening here."
Those words have haunted me recently as I read about and watched the stories of some of the over 150 women who testified in often horrific detail during the sentencing hearing of Larry Nassar, a doctor and an associate professor at Michigan State University, who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a number of them. Nassar was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison for his sexual abuse of these young women, most of whom were aspiring elite-level gymnasts.
January 26, 2018
On Jan. 16, women and girls from across the country began congregating in a courtroom in Lansing, Mich. Some of us were athletes; some of us were not. Some of us were white; some of us were black. Some of us were married; some of us were still in high school. Many of us had never met.
January 24, 2018
Some MSU faculty members have begun to call for President Lou Anna K. Simon’s resignation, but the process for a formal vote of no confidence won’t be an easy one.
January 23, 2018
EAST LANSING - A call for an emergency meeting of Michigan State University's Faculty Senate for a vote of no confidence in President Lou Anna Simon was raised during a University Council meeting Tuesday afternoon.