Sexual assault charges against 2nd BU player

billhoward
“I hope it’s a horrible coincidence," BU coach Jack Parker was saying after a second BU player was arrested: defenseman Max Nicastro arrested for rape Sunday, forward Corey Trivino for sexual assault Dec. 11. Nicastro has been suspended; Trivino is off the team. [www.boston.com]

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Boston University Ice Hockey Team Slammed for 'Sexual Entitlement' Culture

Trotsky

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Boston University Ice Hockey Team Slammed for 'Sexual Entitlement' Culture

Ladies (and gentlemen), don't let your daughters (and, presumably, sons, albeit on the DL) grow up to be puck bunnies. That's the only way this stops. Otherwise, in the words of Adam Smith, "capital will always find a ready market."

Mike Eruzione
I think athletes, men and women, sometimes feel a sense of entitlement because of the stature that they carry at a university -- whether it's a hockey player at BU, football player at Texas or a woman basketball player at UConn. What I was happy about is that they found is that's really nothing drastically wrong with the BU hockey program -- I think it's more the culture of college athletics.

But the task force found that the team's "elevated social status" on campus led to "frequent sexual encounters with women absent an emotional relationship or ongoing commitment."

gomestar
from the article posted above:

"Parker released a statement calling the task force's findings "accurate" and said he thinks the report's recommendations "will help our team, other student-athletes, and the student body in general."

details from the actual report. Yikes.
[bostonglobe.com]

Josh '99

gomestar
from the article posted above:

"Parker released a statement calling the task force's findings "accurate" and said he thinks the report's recommendations "will help our team, other student-athletes, and the student body in general."

details from the actual report. Yikes.
[bostonglobe.com]

Eh. I don't in any way intend to forgive or condone rape or sexual assault or any other kind of violent crime, and I'm glad those two players were punished, but "college athletes get drunk, have lots of meaningless sex, throw wild party after winning championship" is the biggest non-story there is. The same thing happens at every college in the country.

ugarte

Josh '99

gomestar
from the article posted above:

"Parker released a statement calling the task force's findings "accurate" and said he thinks the report's recommendations "will help our team, other student-athletes, and the student body in general."

details from the actual report. Yikes.
[bostonglobe.com]

Eh. I don't in any way intend to forgive or condone rape or sexual assault or any other kind of violent crime, and I'm glad those two players were punished, but "college athletes get drunk, have lots of meaningless sex, throw wild party after winning championship" is the biggest non-story there is. The same thing happens at every college in the country.

"You don't ask when you're drunk" (paraphrase because I'm too lazy to click through) is a pretty dangerous attitude for anyone, even a dude who is probably getting consensual commitment-free sex served up on a platter, to have.

Josh '99

ugarte

Josh '99

gomestar
from the article posted above:

"Parker released a statement calling the task force's findings "accurate" and said he thinks the report's recommendations "will help our team, other student-athletes, and the student body in general."

details from the actual report. Yikes.
[bostonglobe.com]

Eh. I don't in any way intend to forgive or condone rape or sexual assault or any other kind of violent crime, and I'm glad those two players were punished, but "college athletes get drunk, have lots of meaningless sex, throw wild party after winning championship" is the biggest non-story there is. The same thing happens at every college in the country.

"You don't ask when you're drunk" (paraphrase because I'm too lazy to click through) is a pretty dangerous attitude for anyone, even a dude who is probably getting consensual commitment-free sex served up on a platter, to have.

Yeah, that line did give me pause, but at the very least I maintain that it's no different at BU than it is anywhere else.

ugarte

Josh '99

ugarte

Josh '99

gomestar
from the article posted above:

"Parker released a statement calling the task force's findings "accurate" and said he thinks the report's recommendations "will help our team, other student-athletes, and the student body in general."

details from the actual report. Yikes.
[bostonglobe.com]

Eh. I don't in any way intend to forgive or condone rape or sexual assault or any other kind of violent crime, and I'm glad those two players were punished, but "college athletes get drunk, have lots of meaningless sex, throw wild party after winning championship" is the biggest non-story there is. The same thing happens at every college in the country.

"You don't ask when you're drunk" (paraphrase because I'm too lazy to click through) is a pretty dangerous attitude for anyone, even a dude who is probably getting consensual commitment-free sex served up on a platter, to have.

Yeah, that line did give me pause, but at the very least I maintain that it's no different at BU than it is anywhere else.

That is not an argument in favor of jock culture.

French Rage
Screw BU, or they'll screw you!

From the Globe article:
That is partly because the task force could not find any specific university rule that Parker broke in failing to relay information up BU’s chain of command.

TimV

From the Globe article:
That is partly because the task force could not find any specific university rule that Parker broke in failing to relay information up BU’s chain of command.

How is this different from the "Lack of institutional control" that concerns the NCAA so much?