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Saturday 10 February 2018

Michigan State plans to fire official over Nassar scandal

and girls and for child por- are sending an unmistak-
nography crimes. However, able message today that
the scandal has led to nu- we will remove employees
merous people being fired who do not treat students,
or forced out of their jobs. faculty, staff, or anyone
Dr. William Strampel was else in our community in an
dean of the College of appropriate manner."
Osteopathic Medicine, Engler said he is confident
which includes the sports that a faculty panel will
medicine clinic, until he find there is good cause to
announced a leave of ab- revoke Strampel's tenure.
sence for medical reasons Strampel also is being sued
in December. He still has by many of Nassar's victims,
tenure, however, which but the university will not
protects his employment cover his legal expenses.
as a Michigan State faculty Strampel's lawyer, Steven
member. Stapleton, declined to
Engler said he will ask a fac- comment on Engler's an-
ulty committee to revoke nouncement. The Michigan
Strampel's status. attorney general's office,
"William Strampel did not which is investigating how
act with the level of profes- Michigan State responded
sionalism we expect from to complaints about Nas-
individuals who hold senior sar, recently asked the
In this Feb. 5, 2018 photo, Defense attorney Matthew Newberg, left, signs court documents after
Judge Janice Cunningham sentenced Larry Nassar, right, at Eaton County Circuit Court in Char- leadership positions, partic- school for Strampel's com-
lotte, Mich. ularly in a position that in- puter, cellphone and work
(Cory Morse /The Grand Rapids Press via AP) volves student and patient calendars. In 2014, Stram-
safety," Engler, a former pel ordered Nassar to have
By DAVID EGGERT sports doctor Larry Nassar gler, who was hired after Michigan governor, said another medical staffer
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — to have a third person pres- Lou Anna Simon resigned in a statement."Further, al- in the room when provid-
Michigan State University ent during certain treat- under a storm of criticism legations have arisen that ing treatment to "anything
said Friday it plans to fire a ments. about the university's han- question whether his per- close to a sensitive area."
high-ranking administrator It is the first major person- dling of Nassar, who is serv- sonal conduct over a long He also said any skin-to-skin
who told police he never nel action announced by ing decades in prison for period of time met MSU's contact needed to be ex-
followed up after ordering interim President John En- sexually assaulting women standards," Engler said. "We plained in detail. q

Penn State trainer who testified in frat death case quits

By MARK SCOLFORO old Tim Piazza of Lebanon, captured fraternity mem- been charged in relation to drinker.
Associated Press New Jersey. bers carrying Piazza to the the death, allegations that "I in no way, shape or form
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Bream, a fraternity alum- first floor after he'd fallen range from alcohol viola- would give permission to
Penn State said Friday its nus who had been serving down a set of basement tions to involuntary man- any type of alcohol abuse,
head football trainer is re- as the chapter's live-in ad- steps. slaughter and aggravated gauntlet, or anything like
signing, a year after he was viser, testified in August that He displayed apparent assault. that," Bream testified. "Nor
inside a fraternity house he went to his room after signs of severe intoxica- Those matters were recent- did I know about it that
when a pledge suffered fa- watching a pledge bid ac- tion and spent the night on ly taken over by the state evening."
tal injuries during a night of ceptance ceremony and the first floor of the frater- attorney general's office, Tom Kline, a civil lawyer
drinking and hazing. left for work the next morn- nity house, most of it on a which has put them on hold who represents Piazza's
The trainer, Tim Bream, will ing without noticing Piazza. couch, but punctuated by while prosecutors evaluate parents, said they are hap-
leave his job by the end of Piazza fell several times dur- episodes in which he stum- the case. py to see Bream leaving
the month. He did not re- ing the evening and over- bled around in the dark. The videotape showed the university.
spond to an email seeking night, resulting in a frac- By morning, fraternity mem- pledges, including Piazza, "They believe this should
comment. tured skull and damaged bers searching for him racing through a "gauntlet" have happened a long
The university declined to spleen. found him in the basement of drinking stations where time ago," Kline said.
say if his departure is re- Authorities say he had also and waited about 40 min- they were encouraged to In addition to being the
lated to the prosecution consumed a dangerous utes to summon help. Piaz- guzzle beer and wine. football team's head train-
of Beta Theta Pi fraternity amount of alcohol. za later died at a hospital. On the stand during a pre- er, Bream also is assistant
brothers in connection Recordings from the fra- More than two dozen fra- liminary hearing, Bream athletic director for athletic
with the death of 19-year- ternity's security cameras ternity members have described himself as a non- training services.q