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SUNY Fredonia is in the process of creating a mission
statement for our campus violence prevention task force. 
The committee is comprised of faculty, staff, students,
university police, and off campus service providers.  I am
looking for mission statements from similar committees. They
can be e-mailed to 


Thanks,
Julie


Julie M. Hoen
CEASE Project Coordinator
SUNY Fredonia
Counseling Center
LoGrasso Hall
Fredonia, New York 14063
(716)673-3424

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March 7, 2005

University of Colorado President Resigns Amid Scandals
  By MARIA NEWMAN


  
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The president of the University of Colorado submitted her resignation 
today amid allegations that the school's athletic department had used 
sex and alcohol as recruiting tools for its football program.

Elizabeth Hoffman, the president, told the university's board of 
regents this morning that she is stepping down effective June 30.

"It has become clear to me that, amid the serious matters the 
University of Colorado now confronts, my role as the leader of the 
university has become an issue," she wrote in a letter to the board. 
"It appears to me it is in the university's best interest that I remove 
the issue of my future from the debate so that nothing inhibits C.U.'s 
ability to successfully create the bright future it so deserves."

Ms. Hoffman has headed the state's largest public university system for 
five years. Her resignation comes as the university grapples with the 
issue of the athletic scandal and also as it awaits the results of a 
special chancellor's investigation to determine what action to take, if 
any, against a professor who referred to the victims of the World Trade 
Center attacks on 9/11 as "little Eichmanns."

The board's president, Jerry Rutlege, said that Ms. Hoffman was putting 
the future and stability of the university ahead of her own career 
concerns.

"In my discussions with President Hoffman in recent days it was 
apparent to both of us that her support had been waning for some time," 
he said in a statement. "Today she put the interest of the university 
before that of her own."

  A grand jury investigation into the athletic practices returned one 
indictment against a former department employee for soliciting 
prostitutes, but found that the tactics in question were not approved 
or sanctioned by any university officials.

The grand jury's report, leaked to the news media last week, also found 
that two female trainers said they had been sexually assaulted by an 
assistant coach, and that a slush fund was created with money from the 
coach's football camp.

The scandal surfaced a year ago. At least nine women have said they 
were assaulted by Colorado football players or recruits since 1997. A 
parallel investigation by Ken Salazar, the attorney general at the 
time, resulted in no charges, but prosecutors have cited concerns about 
evidence and the reluctance of the women to go forward with the cases.

  The leak of the grand jury report led to renewed questions about the 
level of cooperation provided to investigators by university officials.

In a letter last week reacting to the leaked report, Ms. Hoffman 
pointed out that "the events that are being reported occurred between 
1997 and 2002."

"I worry that the current focus is constantly on the past, and rarely 
on what we have done to resolve problems and move the university 
forward," she said. "The leadership of this university has taken 
responsibility for addressing these serious issues whether we have 
uncovered them or they have been brought to our attention through 
multiple processes, such as by the state auditor. We have taken 
profound and strong action aimed at reshaping this university forever."

  Ms. Hoffman has also been criticized for her statements about Prof. 
Ward L. Churchill, who wrote an essay after the Sept. 11 attacks in 
which he compared American foreign policy to Nazi Germany's. In that 
essay, he also referred to the dead in the twin towers as "little 
Eichmanns" who bore a share of the blame for United States policy and 
the terrorist attacks.

The professor's writings had attracted little attention until January 
when he was invited to speak at Hamilton College in upstate New York. 
The college and a handful of other schools canceled Professor 
Churchill's appearances, citing security concerns.

Ms. Hoffman told the university's faculty assembly last week that 
Professor Churchill would not be fired if the review turns up only 
inflammatory comments, not misconduct.

She also said she feared a "new McCarthyism" was responsible for the 
uproar over his essay.

  A decision about whether he exceeded the boundaries of academic 
freedom is expected next week.

In an interview with CNN, Mr. Rutledge would not comment on Professor 
Churchill or what bearing his comments and the furor that followed had 
on Ms. Hoffman's decision to resign.

"The Board of Regents was very clear about Churchill," Mr. Rutledge 
said. "We very plainly apologized to the victims and everyone connected 
to 9/11."

As to whether Professor Churchill should be fired, Mr. Rutledge said: 
"I can't comment on that right now. Today we're really talking about 
Betsy Hoffman and the transition."

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I agree, Lee, that this can be very secondarily traumatizing.  I'm now  
working on prevention in high schools and have been advised to  consider 
eliminating programming for female teens due to funding  considerations, at 
least 
initially. Sends a strong message to tell young  me, you're the problem, 
dude.  

Linda  Freedman, LCSW, PhD
Campus Rape Service Support Project 
Institute for  Clinical Social Work, Chicago
Toll free:  866-386-5657