“more to worry about” than 
the Nassar case.

“This is not Penn State,” he 

said, referring to the school’s 
sex abuse controversy with 
ex-football 
coach 
Jerry 

Sandusky several years ago. 
“They were dealing with their 
football program. ... They’re 
smart enough to know they’re 
not competent to walk in here 
on this.”

MSU’s 
athletic 
director 

released 
a 
statement 

Wednesday 
annoucing 
his 

department 
will 
cooperate 

with the investigation. 

Both MSU — where Nassar 

worked as a gymnastics team 
coach 
and 
medical 
school 

faculty 
member 
for 
more 

than 20 years — and USA 
Gymnastics 
came 
under 

fire 
for 
enabling 
Nassar’s 

crimes. 
Though 
Nassar 

remained employed at MSU 
until early 2017, a Detroit 
News investigation released 
last week found more than 
a dozen MSU officials had 
been made aware of survivors’ 
reports in the last five years. 
Complaints 
were 
made 
as 

early as 1997, when then-high 
school student Larissa Boyce 

reported Nassar’s assault to 
Kathie Klages, the women’s 
gymnastics coach at MSU. In 
an interview with the Detroit 
News, Boyce told the Detroit 
News Klages told her she must 
have been misunderstanding 
what 
happened, 
and 

discouraged her from filing an 
official report.

Delivering one of the final 

victim 
impact 
statements 

before 
the 
sentencing 
on 

Wednesday, Kaylee Lorincz 
directly implored Nassar to 
tell the court who knew of 
his abuse, mentioning MSU 
president Lou Anna Simon. 
In 2014, Simon was informed 
of a Title IX complaint and 

police report filed against 
Nassar, 
though 
she 

claimed it was reported 
to her as an “unnamed 
physician.”

“I was informed that 

a sports medicine doctor 
was under investigation,” 
she 
said 
outside 
the 

courtroom 
following 

victims’ impact statements 
on January 17. “I told 
people to play it straight 
up, and I did not receive a 
copy of the report. That’s 
the truth.”

Lorincz asked Nassar 

use his time to speak 
before 
sentencing 
to 

provide the survivors with 
answers.

“Did Lou Anna Simon 

know? And lastly, did John 
Geddert know you were 
stealing the innocence of 
little girls in the backroom 
of his gym?”

In 
addition 
to 
the 

university’s 
mishandling 

of 
the 
reports 
of 

abuse, 
survivors 
have 

also 
criticized 
the 

administration’s behavior 

throughout the duration of the 
case and sentencing hearing. 
In court Friday, Boyce said 
she asked Simon to be there to 
hear her impact statement, but 
was told by Simon she couldn’t 
fit it into her schedule.

Following 
an 
emergency 

meeting on Friday, MSU’s 

Board of Trustees announced 
their continued support for 
Simon, saying they would not 
act to remove her as president. 
They also asked the state 
Attorney General’s office to 
investigate MSU to determine 
if any officials played a role 
in 
suppressing 
complaints 

against Nassar.

Trustee Mitch Lyons was 

the only one to call for Simon’s 
resignation. In a statement 
released 
to 
MLive, 
Lyons 

said he didn’t believe Simon 
had knowingly engaged in 
any wrongdoing, but needed 
to resign in order for the 
community to heal.

“While 
President 
Simon 

has done many great things 
during her time at MSU, this 
atrocity is simply too much to 
overcome and our institutional 
accountability 
has 
been 

compromised,” he said. “I have 
empathy for the position she is 
in but her legacy does not take 
precedence in this situation.”

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Every Thursday, The Michigan 
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the campus community. This 
week we asked: What would you 
do with 24 hours to live? 

“I really think that I 
would just try and go 
about my usual life. I 
would probably want to 
spend it with my family, 
doing average things. 
I’d probably try and 
pretend it wasn’t my last 
24 hours.” 

LSA freshman Isabella Buzynski

This atrocity is 
simply too much 
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our institutional 
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