Third Vanderbilt Rape…

Sing it with me!

Third Vanderbilt rape;
Third Vanderbilt Vanderbilt rape;
Third Vanderbilt rape;
Third Vanderbilt Vanderbilt rape;
Third Vanderbilt rape;
Third Vanderbilt Vanderbilt rape
Third Vanderbilt rape
Third Vanderbilt Vanderbilt rape.

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For UD‘s many Vanderbilt rape posts,
go here.

UD thanks Keith.

UD thanks a reader for sending her this news bulletin on the Vanderbilt rapes.

Guilty on all counts.

A very postmodern trial. People have been raping women for a long time, but today some juries can watch the rape, because the postmodern rapists record it.

Of course the guys on trial had every right to do whatever they could to try to stay out of jail, but UD would like to say for the record that it was probably a bad idea for one of them to walk into court brandishing an American flag lapel pin, and for the other one to talk about having no memory of the event while preparing to go to church the next morning. It was probably a bad idea for their defense lawyers to blame events on Vanderbilt University, which turns out to be so utterly dissolute a location that anyone there – even patriotic, churchgoing lads – would rape an unconscious woman. It was probably a bad idea for their defense to rig up a doctor to claim that the alcohol did it, not the football player.

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I know. When you’ve got a recording of the rape, there aren’t any good ideas. Point taken.

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Oh. As you gear up for the trial of the two other former Vanderbilt football players accused of raping this woman, don’t forget: Their coach now coaches at Penn State.

You cannot make this shit up.

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From one of the jurors:

He said the “defense did an incredible job, they were essentially given unwinnable cases and turned it essentially into the longest, hardest-fought legal battle.” He said he did not believe Batey’s testimony that Batey did not remember anything because he was drunk.

“I think Cory Batey’s testimony probably did more harm than good… His intoxication defense came a little bit late and was pretty lackluster when he got on the stand. He had clearly been coached… “

With the lovely Vanderbilt University rape trial as …

background, the film The Hunting Ground begins to generate commentary.

Along with institutions like Harvard, Notre Dame and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “The Hunting Ground” takes on the fraternity system — in particular, Sigma Alpha Epsilon — and even throws down a challenge of a sort for the National Football League with a not-so-subtle suggestion that teams should think twice about drafting one of the top college prospects, Jameis Winston.

Mr. Winston, the Florida State University quarterback, is the focus of one of the film’s more incendiary segments. The Heisman Trophy winner in 2013, he was accused in 2012 of sexual assault by a female student. He has asserted his innocence, did not face criminal charges and was recently cleared of violating Florida State’s student code of conduct by the university. He is widely expected to be among the first several players chosen in this spring’s N.F.L. draft. But “The Hunting Ground,” directed by Kirby Dick, makes a mockery of Florida State’s investigation, and Mr. Winston’s accuser, Erica Kinsman, speaks publicly about the case for the first time in the film, at length.

Shed a tear for Duke, Vanderbilt, and Rice.

They’re the only southern universities in the top twenty USNW rankings, and already some high school seniors (UD just listened to an interview on NPR this morning with several of them) are saying no way. Tennessee and Texas are absolutely looking like no-go sites for modern women, and North Carolina will almost certainly, in not too long a time, head back to the 1950s as well. Why risk signing up for four years at Duke?

These schools, marooned in too bad your father raped you, you poor thirteen year old land, can expect some portion of their faculty to try to get the hell out too. For years now, universities in that yall and shut ma mouth land have lost faculty because of the yall bring all your guns to campus, ya hear? laws in their university’s state; vicious anti-women legislation will draw yet more of them away.

But the good news is that these schools will not have to worry about diversity.

The Duke community represents the entire gamut of opinion from a network of spies should expose abortion seekers to the authorities to women who have ordered abortifacients should be incarcerated to a woman who aborts is an abomination in the sight of the lord and death in forced childbirth is what she deserves. C’mon down!’

The Vanderbilt University Football Team: Amazing Teamwork, Amazing Tackling, Plus Instant Replays for All.

The men of Vandy football: The biggest bruisers out there.

Take that, Harvard soccer weenies!

He’s still there, one of Vanderbilt’s football heroes…

… looking strong and determined on the university’s official website.

His two teammates who’ve recently been convicted of rape have had their pages taken down.

But Rashad Canty, just arrested for human trafficking, has not had his Vandy Football page taken down.

UD understands Vandy’s problem. The most demanding job on that campus is football-player-webpage-dismantler. You had the two convicted guys, and you’ve also got the two players waiting for their rape trials to begin. They’re both still represented on the team pages.

All of these are former players, by the way – the two awaiting trial for rape, and the one awaiting trial for human trafficking. But all of them shine brightly, the pride of Vanderbilt University, on official team pages.

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UD thanks John.

Replacement Vanderbilt Slogan: “We will! We will! …

Rape you!”

While you’re unconscious!

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UD thanks John.

Going on trial for aggravated rape? No problem: Just transfer to Alcorn State.

All four [Vanderbilt University football players] await trial on Oct. 16 and are free on bond. [Jaborian] McKenzie even transferred to Alcorn State University in Mississippi and played in the team’s season opener. However, the university president said he was removed from the team Thursday night and the school had made a mistake allowing him on.

Well excuuuuuuuuse me!

At Vanderbilt, recruitment + teamwork do it again.

Three more people — including a star wide receiver on Vanderbilt University’s football team — were indicted Friday in connection with the ongoing investigation into the rape of a 21-year-old unconscious woman at a campus dorm this summer.

Commodores wide receiver Chris Boyd, 21, is charged with one felony count of being an accessory after the fact. [He is accused of] taking part in an attempted coverup of the sexual assault through advice to certain defendants indicted last week as part of the ongoing investigation.

Also charged were Miles Joseph Finley, 19, of Bermuda Dunes, Calif., and Joseph Dominick Quinzio, 20, of Palm Desert, Calif., both accused of tampering with evidence.

They were high school teammates and friends of Brandon Vandenburg, one of the four former Vanderbilt players charged with multiple counts of rape.

Background here.

“Please don’t compare Vanderbilt to Penn State,” begs a fan…

… but when four heavily recruited football players show up for their first semester and almost immediately team up to rape an unconscious student and photograph themselves doing it (these are the charges), your school has just caught and begun to run with the Penn State pass, and there’s nothing your pleading can do about it.

It’ll be a long carry, in part because Vanderbilt is one of the few remaining morally and academically respectable big-football schools in America, so there’s novelty here. Schadenfreude, too. People from all the dirtbag schools will certainly enjoy smearing shit on clean-as-a-whistle Vandy. And as the trial gets going (if there’s a trial) we’ll get all the Steubenvillesque details.

Yes, Vandy’s new to this, so maybe it thinks dismissing these people from the team and protesting the school’s innocence in the matter (Recruit predators? Us?) will do the trick. Learning curve time.

Does it have a choice?

[T]he then-president of Florida State University was hired in 2014 to run [post-Sandusky Penn State] — right as The New York Times was faulting his administration for improperly handling rape allegations against FSU’s then-star quarterback Jameis Winston. (Around the same time, Penn State was bringing in a new football coach, James Franklin, whose actions in a rape case against four of his players at Vanderbilt were also raising questions. Neither Barron nor Franklin were formally charged with wrongdoing but … is this really the post-Sandusky look that Penn State is going for?)

It’s not as though a football powerhouse university can pick and choose. When your school is essentially playing professional football, you get to enjoy all the benefits of that culture at its most aggressive. What sort of university presidents and coaches do you think are going to show up at Penn State? Especially now, as it once again goes into deep-indignation mode that anyone would give it a hard time because of its long association with Jerry Sandusky and Joe Paterno.

Of course we’ve been following barking mad University of Tennessee on this blog…

… over many years, so how can we be surprised that not long ago “six football players were named as suspects in sexual assault cases”? The number actually charged was only two, and the trial of one of them starts today.

This trial is not to be confused with the Vanderbilt trials, which are ongoing.

Backing our football team
Faltering never

A University-Based Culture.

Jenny Kutner, Salon:

But the video should not be necessary — at least not for us, for the public, to see. We should not need to watch footage of [Florida State University’s De’Andre] Johnson punching a woman in the face in order to entertain the possibility that a quarterback on one of the nation’s premier college football teams might have committed an act of violence. We have seen similar footage too many other times to write this off as implausible, and we have taken too many other opportunities to make excuses and poke holes.

The brutal images that got Johnson suspended indefinitely from the Seminoles and charged with a crime serve a purpose, and they could be key to securing justice. But they’re not the only clue that something is amiss in the sports world, especially and not exclusively. We should know by now that a [university-based] culture of virtually unchecked violence against women exists — and we shouldn’t need to watch a display of it on a loop to confirm our suspicions.

“Vivenzio also accuses the fraternity of operating like a gang.”

When does a bikers’ club become a gang? When does a college fraternity become a gang? When does a football team become a gang? This blog has covered the Waco shootout, the Michael Deng killing, the Vanderbilt rapes, the San Diego State fraternity drug markets, etc., etc. These activities sure look to her like organized gang activity, subject to gang-specific enhanced legal penalties.

The Penn State frat in question here (Penn State! It can really afford more sagas of sordid men.), already in trouble for all kinds of shit, is accused of

obtaining some of its funding by converting the pre-paid food plans of its pledges and confiscating and selling their prescription drugs. These funds were then used to pay for countless socials, presocials and parties at the fraternity house at which underage students were plied with alcohol and, in some cases, with drugs to facilitate sexual assault and abuse.

Yiiich.

“That Penn State, a school that had become infamous for an assistant coach now in jail for sexually abusing children, would hire a coach who is connected, however tangentially, to an ongoing sexual-assault case involving multiple of his former players was baffling to some observers.”

Vanderbilt might not be a football school, but over the last four years, football has had a huge impact on the university.

So true.

Vanderbilt might not be a football school yet.

But like Penn State, new home of former Vanderbilt football coach James Franklin, it’s raping its way there.

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