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Related: About this forumNotre Dame Alumni: "Why I won’t be cheering for old Notre Dame"
Well, since you asked and many of my friends have, some more than once no, I will not be cheering for my alma mater, the University of Notre Dame, to win big-time college footballs championship on Jan. 7. Whats really surprising me are those who believe as I do that two players on the team have committed serious criminal acts sexual assault in one case, and rape in another but assumed that Id support the team anyway, just as they are.
Arent you just a little bit excited? one asked the other day. There are plenty of good guys on the team, too, Im repeatedly told. And oh, that Manti Teo is inspiring. I dont doubt it. But as a thought exercise, how many predators would have to be on the team before youd no longer feel like cheering?
Sexual violations of all kinds happen on every campus, I know, and neither man will ever be found guilty in court; one of the victims is dead and the other, according to the Notre Dame student who drove her to the ER afterward, in February 2011, decided to keep her mouth shut at least in part because shed seen what happened to the first woman. Neither player has ever even been named, and wont be here, either, since neither was charged with a crime.
The Department of Educations civil rights office is well aware of the second case, though; in fact, federal investigators were on campus when it occurred, as part of a seven-month probe into the way Notre Dame handles such reports. And as a result, with its Title IX funding on the line, the university marked the 40th anniversary of coeducation in 2012 by changing the way it investigates sexual assault for the second time in two years.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2012/12/04/why-i-wont-be-cheering-for-old-notre-dame/?wprss=rss_politics
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Enough to justify your patheric, irrational hatred...go at it asshats.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)be proud of your religiosity!!
frylock
(34,825 posts)can you for once set aside your fucking allegiance to a sports team. ONCE?!
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)Classic!!
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)I don't have different allegiances. Unless you want to count KU for basketball and UT for football. Or The Rangers in the AL and the Rockies in the NL.
So can YOU "set aside your fucking allegiance" to the lying cheating Buckeyes?
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)El Supremo
(20,365 posts)I'd root for any Non Qualifying Conference teams in those cases. I may even root for NIU this year!
Condem
(9,002 posts)..it's the fight in the dog!!
GaYellowDawg
(4,447 posts)Alabama will do that for me. I'll be sure to have some buffalo wings from factory farm chickens in your honor as I watch yet another SEC team capture the title.
Carnage251
(562 posts)Anyway it is a good thing that ND will lose next month.