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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.
