This has not been a good week for thee scandal-prone Rutgers University. Over the past week, questions surrounding Julie Hermann have heightened in number and intensity. Here's a guide to the controversy.
This one is a little awkward. While attempting to heal from the departure of abusive men's basketball coach Mike Rice, Rutgers hired a woman as their new athletic director who used to engage in some of the same abusive activities during her coaching career that got Rice fired.
Abusive Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice's replacement Eddie Jordan doesn't actually have the degree he claimed.
Because, really, what could go wrong with a man who was fired for evidence of abuse — for kicking his 18-year-old male players, chucking basketballs at their heads, and using anti-gay slurs — moving on to supervise your 12-year-old daughter?
The state school is still going to pay the man who didn't act on acts of violence around $1.2 million through the next year, and pay for his car, and let him keep the laptop and iPad the school purchased, likely by way of taxpayer dollars. That must be nice for him.
If you had an extortion investigation in your "what twists the Rutgers basketball scandal will take next" pool, well, collect your winnings. Also, buy a lottery ticket because you may be telepathic. Because the F.B.I. is investigating Eric Murdock, the whistleblowing former assistant coach, for extortion.
Tim Pernetti reportedly has been forced to resign, but says that if it was up-to-him, coach Mike Rice would have been fired a long time ago.
Even the Rutgers coach himself said after his termination that "There is no excuse — I was wrong." But that didn't stop Hannity and Malkin from making excuses and saying that the coach's treatment of his student-athletes wasn't that bad.
The school finally fired its head basketball coach after immense pressure over video that surfaced Tuesday showing Rice's outrageous behavior at team practices. But the public outrage continues, with many saying the move came too late and that the school athletic director and even its president should be next to go. Even Chris Christie is speaking out.
A video emerged Tuesday showing Rutgers head basketball coach Mike Rice shoving players, cursing at them, and calling them gay slurs. When the university found out about it last year, its athletic director says the school fined Rice $50,000 and suspended him for three games. That's it. Now people are desperately trying to figure out how the coach and the A.D. are still employed.
The college sports landscape is witnessing another big upheaval today as Maryland will leave the ACC to join the Big Ten, and is expected to quickly be joined there by Rutgers.
Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers student convicted of using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate, Tyler Clementi, is scheduled to be released from jail on Tuesday morning. He will not face deportation proceedings upon his release.
Dharun Ravi's apology on Tuesday came too late to save him from serving jail time, as the judge in his case said on Wednesday the reason he rejected a corrections official's suggested sentence of no incarceration was that he'd never heard him say sorry.
He's a native son of India and the press has his back.
The trial of Rutgers student Dharun Ravi began Friday, with the focus on both sides not on the facts of the case -- he's accused of bias intimidation for using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate, Tyler Clementi, who later committed suicide -- but on the intentions of the defendant.
Following this morning's report that the NYPD was snooping on Muslim students, Rutgers has released a statement distancing itself from the NYPD's unsanctioned spying.
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