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Gabrielle Glaser at The Los Angeles Times on why colleges fail at investigating sexual assault on campus. “When my mom entered the University of Oregon in the late 1950s, a "housemother" made nightly doorjamb patrols after the 11 p.m. lights-out. Campus rape certainly happened back when my mother was a student, but it was seldom talked about. Today, female students across the country are determined to bring it into the open and to hold schools responsible,” Glaser writes.“The disciplinary systems of colleges, designed to deal with plagiarism and roommate spats, have proved utterly inadequate to deal with the more serious issue of sexual assault. Indeed, though the crimes at issue are considered among the most serious in the criminal code, the accusations are typically handled by campus administrators who are unlikely to have the sensitivity, forensic training or expertise required to investigate a possible sex crime.” Fortune’s Caroline Fairchild tweets, “‘It wouldn't be happening if we didn't have a 1,000-year system of failure dealing with sexual assault.’”
Kavitha A. Davidson at Bloomberg View on the latest NFL health-related lawsuit. “If the latest lawsuit by former players against the NFL teaches us anything, it's that it's finally time to do away with the entire practice of team doctors. The suit, filed Tuesday by eight retired players, including three from the Super Bowl Shuffling 1985 Chicago Bears, alleges that the league administered painkillers without prescriptions in order to mask injuries and keep the players on the field, resulting in long-term disability and drug addiction,” Davidson writes. “The conflict of interest inherent in the team doctor-player relationship is clear. A physician's primary responsibility is to his patient, but that gets muddled when the prestige and the paycheck come from the organization employing both. Frankly, it doesn't really matter if they do it on purpose or not -- no doctors should be put in a position in which they're forced to consider anything but their patients' needs.” Reuters’ Jake Hemingway tweets, “Really interesting read on the doctors and the NFL.”