Regents to Re-Investigate UI Rape Case
Posted on July 24, 2008
Filed Under News, The Daily Prereq | By Jessica Gross
In October 2007, a University of Iowa undergrad reported that two football players had raped her. Iowa’s Board of Regents, a nine-member committee that oversees five schools, investigated the case and declared in June that UI did a good job handling it. But serious UI missteps were just unearthed, so the regents have opened a new investigation into the old allegations.
The administration’s biggest error: President Sally Mason didn’t submit two letters from the woman’s mother, which criticized the UI’s response to the case, to the regents. One of the letters revealed that when the woman reported the rape to the athletics department, the director, head football coach and an associate director all coerced her to keep the case inside the department. Hushing up a rape case is really not acceptable. Another mistake was Mason’s failure to return a call from the woman’s father. If a student on your campus is raped, you return the family’s calls. In fact, you make sure to call the victim’s parents before they have to make the effort.
Gary Barta, UI’s athletics director, says he’s confident the regents’ second investigation will commend the university’s response. Barta, I’d recommend not calling bets on this one.
(Source: The Daily Iowan)
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