Antoninus said:
coconutED said:
U is fined for bad recordkeeping 3X the amount as the school that employed a physician who sexually assaulted his patients.
This is not remotely just a "bad recordkeeping" case. They had systemic, substantive violations, and they did nothing about them over a period of many years.
By contrast, MSU had safeguards in place, they simply did not catch Nasser.
One was negligence, the other was total and absolute indifference. I suspect that's the reason for the different size in the fines.
I think two things can be true at the same time.
Liberty definitely ****ed up and deserved a large fine. This was worse than, "bad record keeping," many are trying to make it out to be.
On the other hand, the size of the fine is certainly questionable. Michigan State did more than fail to catch Nasser. They buried their heads in the sand the same way Penn State did with Sandusky.
ETA Safeguards are meaningless if they're not enforced. Michigan State may have had them in place, but they were merely lip service considering their approach with Nasser. Ignoring the safeguards you supposedly have is just as, if not more, indifferent than having none at all.Nasser's wrong doing was widespread and over a long time period, and Liberty's failures put people at risk over a similar timeframe. They're not substantially that different, but the fine for Liberty is much more and certainly seems excessive. They definitely deserved one, but probably not the one they got.
