🏈 On ND Ethics-or Lack of Them

[psychojoe]

http://jonathanturley.org/2013/01/1...r-manti-teo-and-abandons-any-sense-of-ethics/

For those of you who don't know, Jonathan Turley is a widely respected lagal scholar.

 

[TerryP]

Swarbrick’s position forgiving Te’o (and the university) of responsibility is most notable not only in the suspending of any notion of logic but any obligation of ethics. Let’s assume for a moment that Te’o never knew that his girlfriend did not exist despite the fact that he could never have actually met her. Indeed, while reporting that she died of cancer, he never appears to have gone to “the love of his life” in person. The university admits that he told them during the season that it was a hoax. Yet, he and Notre Dame remained silent as published accounts discussed how he met her at a football game and poured sympathy on his loss and that of his grandmother on the same day. It was the biggest personal story in the college football season. It was a story that clearly would have helped in the competition for the Heisman Trophy — a huge benefit for both the player and the school. This is not some collateral fact or something subject to interpretation. It was the core of a national sensational story and it was entirely untrue.

That's one of the points that gets me in this story.

Why did they let in continue?

 

[PhillyGirl]

If I hear one more university administrator say they were "not obligated" to follow up on or report a sketchy matter (a la Penn State, ND, etc), I am gonna scream.

 

[RTRGrad2006]

I don't think it's right to be the victim and the benefactor.

 

[PhillyGirl]

http://www.salon.com/2013/01/17/notre_dames_double_standard/?upw

"Less than a day into the Manti Te’o revelations, we’ve heard more about a fake dead girlfriend of a Notre Dame football player than a real dead girl. Lizzy Seeberg committed suicide, not long after being intimidated by Notre Dame football players for reporting a sexual assault by one of their teammates. A second woman who was taken to the hospital for a rape exam declined to formally accuse another Notre Dame football player after getting a series of bullying texts from players.

The handful of people who immediately took note of the contrast in the attention — both by the press and by the university — are absolutely right to be angry. But no one should be surprised."

...

"Dave Zirin, who has long called for the Notre Dame football program to be shut down as irredeemably corrupt, pointed out that the university had hired a private investigator for the Te’o case but not the numerous other allegations of wrongdoing by players. Zirin said of the school’s athletic director, “It says so much that Te’o’s bizarre soap opera has moved [Jack] Swarbrick to openly weeping but he hasn’t spared one tear, let alone held one press conference, for Lizzy Seeberg..."