“The incident just doesn’t square with the grandiose holistic approach to be a student-athlete”. are you kidding? do you think these are guys who were raised in newton,massachusetts and spent summers in the hamptons and cape cod? were going to attend williams college to study literature and take a job at a non profit in Manhattan after college while mommy and daddy supported them…but instead went to u of m on a football scholarship to play football just because they like minnesota in the winter? you are applying a privileged elitist set of rules to them. you maybe against group sex and everything else that seems foreign or unethical to you…that is your opinion . the question is about rape not morals. I personally think sports and frats have no place on a modern college campus and I want people who break the law removed permanently from a school but one should not apply some aloof / lofty concept like a “grandiose holistic approach to be a student-athlete” to male students who were recruited to play football at a large university.
again, I would be terribly saddened if I were to find out my daughter had partaken in that activity and if I had a son who “lined” up for something like that it would make me very uncomfortable and saddened too. but I remove my personal beliefs and morals from these situations and only care about if it was a consensual situation or a case of rape or in this case gang rape.
again do not think for a second I support their behavior, want to see this type of behavior on a college campus or anywhere else. I just think it is important not to think just because we cringe at this behavior we therefore think it must be punished. the police/da declined to prosecute and I do not think anyone is suggesting that they are covering up for the athletes…so I think the athletes should be left alone.