BATON ROUGE – Dozens of students, upset about the way LSU distributed the discipline after a third-party review of its Title IX policies, manifested outside the university’s football offices on Monday.
The protest, organized by Tigers Against Sexual Assault, came days after LSU released Husch Blackwell’s report on the school’s treatment of sexual misconduct. Much of the report focused on the LSU athletics department, where the incidents were reportedly covered up in the past decade.
Students gathered in front of the Football Operations Building said they were frustrated by the punishment that LSU bosses ended up imposing.
Only two athletics officials faced discipline after the report, Executive Delegate AD Verge Ausberry and Senior Associate AD Miriam Segar. Both received unpaid suspensions and Ausberry was also ordered to undergo additional training.
LSU students are now shouting “have courage, set the fire”. Verge Ausberry, was the assistant athletics director suspended for 30 days without pay for dealing insufficiently with complaints of sexual assault?@WBRZ? pic.twitter.com/XnhQ9NwWQB
– Sydney Kern (@sydneykern) March 8, 2021
Drivers are starting to get stuck in the two exits of Football Ops. LSU students are getting in the way. Police officers are telling drivers to “sit and wait a while”. ?@WBRZ? pic.twitter.com/GiDtYfzv5w
– Sydney Kern (@sydneykern) March 8, 2021
The report also detailed allegations of wrongdoing against former football coach Les Miles, who was accused of making advances against several working students during his time at LSU.
On Monday afternoon, the United States Department of Education issued a statement saying that federal authorities were “reviewing” the Husch Blackwell report.