College head fired over rape-murder cover-up

[Ian David]

Eastern Michigan University has fired president John A. Fallon III and dismissed two other top officials, less than two weeks after a federal investigation found that administrators broke the law by covering up the rape and murder of a student in her dorm room.

On Monday afternoon, officials with the Ypsilanti, Mich., school announced that Cindy Hall, who headed up the school's campus police department, and vice president James Vick, who oversaw the housing and campus police departments, were forced to resign.

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Last December, Dickinson's body was found inside her room at Hill Hall. For 10 weeks, university officials told the Dickinson family, students and the community that no foul play was suspected.

School officials did not acknowledge Dickinson had been murdered until fellow student Orange Amir Taylor III, was arrested on Feb. 23 and charged with murder and sexual assault. A U.S. Department of Education report and a separate investigation commissioned by Eastern Michigan regents concluded the university staff had violated the Clery Act, the federal law that requires colleges and universities to disclose information about campus crimes and warn students of threats to their safety.

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[northzax]

1. they told her family there was no foul play?

what was on the death certificate?

[Iris]

4. That's what I was just thinking.

I mean, how would the school have the power to not tell parents how their child died?

[Demeter]

2. What's Really Galling Is That the Board of Regents Frantically Tried to Keep Him

but finally decided that he had to go for the sake of the university!

He gets a year's salary--not bad for such a stupendous fuck-up!

http://www.mlive.com/news/annarbornews/index.ssf?/base/news-23/1184681466210900.xml&coll=2

[Ian David]

3. If I walked away with a year's sallary every time I got fired, I could retire wealthy. n/t