JB will have more info on all of this than I will. I can only make hack guesses because there's too much speculation and wild **** going on for it to stay in sync.
The public version is this: two FB players talking to female athlete outside of dorm room last fall. Reportedly, she was drunk and then all three head up to the players dorm room. (Note: IIRC, Hillcrest Hall is mainly an athlete's dorm).
**** goes down, and the UI cops, Iowa City PD, and IA Div. of Criminal Investigation comes in to gather evidence, but they are not talking.
Johnson County Attorney (Iowa version of the DA) asks for records and evidence to be sealed. It was, and she asked fand received two more extensions to keep them sealed (that's probably why the mother is pissed off about getting no response from UI officials when she sent the previous letters during the timeline noted in the story: UI couldn't say **** about it by order of the CA.)
Parents and coach of victim have a sit down with AD Barta and Ferentz. Barta and administration requested to do an in-house investigation and the parents agreed. Mother decides to write letters and got no response. She gets pissed and fires one off to the IC Press-Citizen and that's where we're at now.
Ferentz booted both players from the team and both of them head home after the incident, but other athletes continue to badger the female athlete victim. Mother felt that her daughter wasn't being protected by the school.
The letter in question ends up in the hands of the Board of Regents on Friday. Yesterday, the chairman acts "shocked" about the president not turning over the letter to them when she received it. The asshole had an entire weekend to read the entire thing in advance of the story going public by the Press-Citizen.
It's a lot more than Kirk getting his **** together on the field. The UI administration has historically done things with cloak and dagger, and sometimes with the Board of Regents to conduct things in private.
It doesn't mean much, but regardless how much discipline Ferentz has placed on the team, the players continue to keep acting like ****ing idiots and some have gotten booted off the team. Just this past weekend, an incoming frosh from S. Dakota got caught underage drinking and leads a foot chase, with eight cops in pursuit.
Some fans think there's a coverup, but the County Attorney shot that theory down quickly. Right now, it's an issue of "she (mother) said, they (school) said" and the two players have submitted not guilty pleas and a trial date is to be set before the season starts.
To answer your question, Ace, the assault policy stipulates that the victim has two options in which to report the assault: 1: inform the police; or 2: notify university authorities.
I can only speculate that the victim and her parents were unsure whether to call the ICPD or tell the school. By having the sit-down, administration encouraged them to let the school do the in-house investigation.
Here's the policy:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~vpss/policies/v/f.shtml#main
Just in: the BOR will reopen their investigation into the case. Would like to see how the Regents are going to deal with this since Mike Gartner isn't on the board anymore.
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