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[quote=Anonymous]The families of the 4 students from Idaho who were murdered by Brian Kohberger, a Ph.D student and Teaching Assistant attending WSU, when he entered their house and stabbed them all to death are suing Washington State University.

Aside from the murdered students, it brings up an issue what (if anything) are universities doing to keep students safe. If what the lawsuit is claiming is true, it really seems like WSU ignored repeated violations of policies and procedures to control conduct and prohibit and prevent discrimination, harassment and stalking. Females students were extremely afraid of him and needed security escorts.

Was did WHU not do anything? How could they allow him to continuing teaching undergraduates? Were they fearful that Kohberger would claim he had a disability, so it would be discriminatory to discipline him?

https://pcva.law/wp-content/uploads/2026-01-07-Goncalves-Complaint-Conformed.pdf

The lawsuit states:

WSU brought Bryan Kohberger to Pullman, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest, to serve as a Teaching Assistant in the Criminal Justice and Criminology Department, while he also worked to obtain a Ph.D., with a study focused on sexually motivated burglars and serial killers. Kohberger was heavily reliant on WSU, who paid him a salary, provided free on-campus housing, medical benefits, and free tuition, all conditioned on his behavior and subject to being revoked...

Almost immediately upon his arrival to the Pullman-Moscow community, Kohberger developed a reputation for discriminatory, harassing, and stalking behavior, instilling substantial fear among young female students and fellow WSU employees, necessitating regular security escorts for multiple females. Despite receiving at least 13 formal reports of Kohberger’s inappropriate, predatory and menacing behavior, WSU failed to respond in any meaningful way and allowed Kohberger’s escalating behavior to continue unchecked...

Despite receiving at least 13 formal reports of Kohberger’s inappropriate, predatory and menacing behavior, no one respond in any meaningful way and allowed Kohberger’s escalating behavior to continue unchecked...The WSU office of Compliance and Civil Rights (CCR) in charge of acting on those complaints later reported that she had neither met nor even spoken with Kohberger...

During one of several faculty meetings where Kohberger was discussed extensively, one faculty member remarked: “Mark my
words, I work with predators, if we give him a Ph.D that’s the guy that in that many years when he is a professor, we will hear is harassing, stalking, and sexually abusing . . . his students.” This same WSU professor believed that Kohberger was already stalking people.

Despite having a formal Threat Assessment Team—a now common practice at universities to proactively identify, assess and manage individuals who may pose a risk of violence—WSU wholly failed to follow that process with Kohberger and, instead, allowed his dangerous behaviors to escalate while it simultaneously continued to support him financially, provide him with access to university resources and students, and keep him housed rent-free in the Pullman-Moscow community.[/quote]

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