- Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon is being asked to hand in her resignation by multiple board members
- Representatives from the Michigan House approved a resolution demanding that Lou Anna Simon resign as president of the school in a 96 – 11 vote
- So are the 156 women who spoke at Larry Nassar’s trial
- ‘Guess what? You’re a coward, too,’ victim Lindsey Lemke told Simon in court last week at Nassar’s hearing
Hours after Larry Nassar was sentenced to 175 years in jail for seven counts of criminal sexual conduct in Ingham County Court, the scandal surrounding the pedophile doctor brought down its first alleged enabler.
Multiple members of the Michigan State University Board and an overwhelming amount of state representatives from the Michigan House approved a resolution demanding that Lou Anna Simon resign as president of the school in a 96 – 11 vote.
These resignation calls are also coming from other high-ranking Democrats and Republicans in the legislature, the editorial board at the college’s newspaper and, perhaps most importantly, most of the 156 women who bravely shared their victim impact statements over the past seven days.
Bye: Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon is being asked to hand in her resignation by multiple board members (Simon above last Wednesday)_
Won’t back down: Representatives from the Michigan House approved a resolution demanding that Simon resign as president of the school in a 96 – 11 vote (above with Lindsey lemke in foreground)
Simon heard a few of those statements last week during a trip to Ingham County Court on Wednesday.
She also got an earful out of the courtroom when she was confronted by Lindsey Lemke.
After being questioned about the school’s inaction in the wake of the Nassar allegations along with the refusal of faculty members to have an open dialogue with students about what was being done, Lemke asked Simon if she knew her name.
When she revealed she did not, Lemke pointed out that she was a captain on the gymnastics team when the scandal hit and Nassar lost his job.
Lemke said in court the following day that during that time she was asked to sign a card of support for the pedophile and not speak to any member of the media.
She then addressed some of Nassar’s enabler, delivering an impassioned indictment of the doctor’s friends and employers.
The courtroom erupted in applause for the vert first time as Lemke said: ‘Larry, I hope you, [MSU president] Lou Anna Simon, [MSU gymnastics coach] Kathie Klages, [Twistars owner] John Geddert and all of USAG are scared. Because you have pissed off the wrong army of women.’
She then said to Simon: ‘Guess what? You’re a coward, too.’
Lemke also made her opinion of Simon clear one day prior when she tweeted: ‘Lou Anna Simon told me today that she had no idea who the victims were & their names until today being at court. She was there for the last half of the day to see around 10 (maybe) statements. You don’t even know the magnitude of people this has reached. You are not a president.’