USC president agrees to step down amid gynecologist scandal

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Michael Balsamo, Associated Press •May 25, 2018

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The president of the University of Southern California has agreed to step down amid a sex scandal involving a school gynecologist, the chairman of the school's board of trustees said Friday.

The university's board of trustees has "agreed to begin an orderly transition and commence the process of selecting a new president," Rick J. Caruso, the board's chairman, said in a letter to students and faculty members.

The letter did not say when the university's president, C.L. Max Nikias, would leave his post.

The announcement came after dozens of professors, students and alumni called for Nikias' resignation following allegations that USC failed to properly respond to complaints of misconduct involving Dr. George Tyndall, a gynecologist who worked at a university clinic for 30 years.

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. About time. n/t

[BigmanPigman]

2. Really! What took so long?!?

[Demovictory9]

4. yep

[fierywoman]

3. I gave up on male gynecologists years (many decades) ago, sorry to be such a sexist, but it's so

much easier to go to a woman.

[marble falls]

6. I have an equivelent proceedure done very often because of my bladder cancer...

treatment - stirrups and all. Its done with assistance by women some times. I understand your concerns. I am sometimes taken with the thought I am being given a taste of the medicine for all the years I was dismissive of women's experience in obs/gyn.

You aren't being sexist. You're making a personal decision about a very private issue.

[RandomAccess]

7. A Nurse Practitioner once said to me

her philosophy was that no one who's never had a pelvic exam should give one. I concur.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. Stepping down at age 71? A promising career cut short.

I'd bet he's getting full retirement benefits. Generous benefits. Like Lou Anna Simon's departure from Michigan State University.

[Izzy Blue]

8. "Violated and Embarrassed':Hundreds of Women Come Forward USC Gyno Accused of Sexual Misconduct"

Gloria Allred representing two of the young women/photo.
So NOW these 200 professors come forward?



snip:

"An investigation published last week by the Los Angeles Times opened a floodgate of complaints against the doctor—and prompting 200 professors to come forward demanding USC President C.L. Max Nikias’ resignation.

Some 300 people have come forward with complaints about Tyndall—who didn’t the leave the university until 2017, when he was quietly paid off, the Times reported. The university has started sharing some of the names of patients with the Los Angeles Police Department as it begins a criminal investigation, according to the newspaper.

Capt. Billy Hayes, who oversees the Robbery-Homicide Division that handles sex crimes, said detectives would “triage the investigations in a way similar to how it handled multiple allegations against Hollywood figures such as Harvey Weinstein.”

Tyndall, 71, is also under investigation from the Medical Board of California, but the scope of the inquiry is “unclear.”

The scandal has roiled the esteemed university, as more women continue coming forward—and calls for Nikias’ ouster grow louder. As of early Wednesday afternoon, more than 3,000 people had signed a Change.org petition demanding his resignation.

“We, the undersigned faculty, write to express our outrage and disappointment over the mounting evidence of President Nikias’ failure to protect our students, our staff, and our colleagues from repeated and pervasive sexual harassment and misconduct,” professors wrote in their letter to the university’s board of trustees.

Tyndall has told the Times that he did nothing wrong, and never had any “sexual urges” toward patients. School officials have also insisted that senior leadership wasn’t aware of the complaints against the doctor until 2017, when they were informed about the findings of an internal 2016 investigation into Tyndall. USC didn’t report the gynecologist to the California Medical Board until earlier this year, after he sent a letter to the school seeking reinstatement."


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