In July 2018, police began an investigation into University of Michigan Health Service director and team physician, Dr. Robert E. Anderson, after a former student-athlete wrote to athletic director Warde Manuel about being repeatedly sexually abused by Anderson during medical exams in the early 1970s. The student was dismissed, kicked off his wrestling team and stripped of his financial aid…
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The Big Business of College Athletics Makes it Ripe For Sexual Exploitation
These days, college sports are big business. But even years ago, the importance of sporting programs at universities is hard to overstate. Both now and back then, failing to make a team or win a starting position could spell doom for a student, and hurt a student’s academic standing in the short run and hurting his or her earning potential…