Wednesday, January 29, 2014

The NCHERM Group President & CEO, Brett A. Sokolow, quoted in the Columbia Missourian

Title IX Experts Disagree on MU's Obligation in Menu Courey Case

Brett Sokolow, executive director of the Association of Title IX Administrators, interprets the issue differently. He said the Tribune story didn't contain enough information to trigger an investigation.

The university would have known, Sokolow said, if Menu Courey had informed Meghan Anderson, former MU athletics department academic adviser, of the assault, as Menu Courey wrote in her diary and ESPN reported. Anderson has said that Menu Courey didn't tell her about an assault.

Without a request from Menu Courey or statements from some other witness, the university couldn't reasonably be expected to know about the incident until the ESPN "Outside the Lines" story came out last week, Sokolow said.

"It doesn't sound like the athletic department knew," Sokolow said. "I don't sense a cover-up."


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