Commentary: As a USC professor, I can’t stay quiet about the administration’s toxic culture
by Ariela J. Gross, Los Angeles Times
Nov 08, 2021
4 minutes
In October, scandal broke at the University of Southern California — again. This time, it was allegations of drugging and sexual assault at the Sigma Nu fraternity house that the administration knew about for almost a month before warning other potential victims. During that long silence, another student reported another assault there.
If this sounds familiar, it should. In 2018, under the presidency of C.L. Max Nikias, the Los Angeles Times broke the story that George Tyndall, a gynecologist at the Student Health Center, was accused of assaulting female students for three decades, despite numerous complaints from students and nurses, and
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