College football players to boycott activities over sexual assault suspensions

Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2016-12-16 06:38

Article here. Excerpt:

'The entire Minnesota football team says it is boycotting all football activities until it gets satisfactory answers from the university about the suspension of 10 players this week.

The school suspended the players after an internal investigation into a sexual assault case. Police declined to charge any of the players, but the school suspended them based on internal regulations involving sexual assault allegations.
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Wide receiver Drew Wolitarsky, with his team members standing behind him, made the announcement at the Gibson-Nagurski Football complex, CBS Minneapolis reports.

“Effective immediately, we will boycott all football activities,” Wolitarsky said. “The boycott will remain in effect until due process is followed, and the suspensions for all 10 players … are lifted.”

Wolitarsky says the decision was made after a “disappointing meeting” with Athletic Director Mark Coyle.

“We are concerned that our brothers have been named publically with reckless disregard in violation of their constitutional rights,” Wolitarsky said. “We are now compelled to speak for our team and take back our program.”'

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/17/us/minnesota-gophers-end-football-boycott/index.html

'And the team will "use our status as public figures" to bring attention to the issue of sexual assault against women," he said.'

We have enough ppl doing that already. It would've been better had they used said status to call attn to the lack of respect for the rights of the accused in such matters.

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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2016-12-17 23:03