Reply to Oberlin defamation suit and verdict : not a good optic

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Oberlin defamation suit and verdict : not a good optic "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not surprised if insurance companies would want to get involved. $11 million is a high figure, especially for a bakery in a small town.

But the insurance company wanting to get involved doesn't mean Oberlin is innocent. At all. So don't fall into the trap of thinking that somehow it means Oberlin wasn't at fault. The insurance companies are only involved to minimize the financial damages the college will have to pay to the bakery. That is their role and it is not to provide evidence of Oberlin's innocence.

The college's board of trustees should also be reviewing the actions of certain administrators and leaders at the college and why they behaved in the way they are alleged to have behaved without first doing a due process review. And even if the college had sincere reasons to come to the defense of the students who shoplifted and started the fight with the bakery staff, it is also quite clear that the college administrators also encouraged the larger community to directly boycott and interfere with the bakery's operations instead of letting the matter be investigated properly first. That the college dean also specifically asked the bakery to not refer a crime (however petty it was) to the police but to notify the college first, and attempted to withhold evidence (the fake ID) is very much overstepping their responsibilities and implying that the college is above the law in that community. When your local police force has to threaten legal action to get the college to give up the evidence is very damning.

[/quote]

What you are saying is Oberlin crossed its line over zealously protecting its [u][b]criminals[/b][/u]. Let me know if Oberlin is involved in sexually abusing students under its care (Catholic Church), get caught up in the latest college admissions scandal, including bribery, fraud, and racketeering conspiracy (USC, Stanford, UCLA, UTexas, Wake Forest, Georgetown, Yale, U of San Diego) - or if it has ever accused innocent people of rape and sodomy (Duke.)
[/quote]

FTFY.

There was no accusing "innocent people" of anything. The students were guilty, by their own admission, of theft and assault.

The only innocent people here were the hardworking small business owners trying to make an honest living.[/quote]

+1,000,000
This story is unbelievable.  It's frightening that there are actually people who label the grocer "racist" for calling the police on shoplifters.  Who cares what race they were?  They were stealing - and then they beat him up.  He deserves every penny he gets from this suit.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics