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Post by Bornthrilla on Feb 27, 2019 12:56:09 GMT -5
An A&T athletics spokesman on Wednesday confirmed other media reports that the cheerleading team — benched since earlier this month — won't perform at upcoming men's and women's basketball games or the conference tournament next month. Spokesman Brian Holloway said Wednesday that the university hopes the team will be back in business for the football season in the fall. "We're not punishing them. We don't feel like these young ladies didn't do anything wrong," Holloway said. "We want to look out for their best interest with all of the attention that is going on." Read more: www.greensboro.com/news/schools/n-c-a-t-cheerleaders-won-t-return-to-the/article_7b138e8e-58a2-5025-b859-506d22ca5035.html
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Post by bluehaze on Feb 28, 2019 18:21:58 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2019 19:17:52 GMT -5
What a really nice way to say they fired the staff. I guess Title IX processes weren't followed by the coaches.
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Post by Bornthrilla on Feb 28, 2019 21:20:28 GMT -5
By "really nice" I assume you mean horrible.
That statement makes it sound like A&T didn't complete due process before terminating the cheer coaches.
There is no mention of an official investigation or any findings of said investigation.
This is how you get sued for wrongful termination.
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Post by The Professor on Feb 28, 2019 21:34:48 GMT -5
A&T didnt fire the coaches , they resigned. Its alot of truth that's getting ready to come out and its gonna look real bad on the university
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Post by Bornthrilla on Feb 28, 2019 23:03:07 GMT -5
This is why you need a better communications / legal department.
If you had just come out immediately with a competent response this sh$t show wouldn't have grown to the current level.
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Post by The Professor on Mar 1, 2019 0:33:56 GMT -5
This is why you need a better communications / legal department. If you had just come out immediately with a competent response this sh$t show wouldn't have grown to the current level. U ain't seen nothing yet
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Post by Bornthrilla on Mar 1, 2019 9:47:55 GMT -5
Two cheerleading coaches are out at N.C. A&T
By John Newsom john.newsom@greensboro.comGREENSBORO — The two N.C. A&T cheerleading coaches at the center of a campus controversy are no longer at the school. An A&T athletics department spokesman said Friday that the two co-head coaches — Adjoa Botwe-Rankin and Wenalyn Bell Glenn — resigned Thursday. Both have worked with A&T's cheerleaders for more than a decade. In a statement late Thursday, A&T announced that it has appointed an athletics department official to oversee the cheerleading program as it searches for new leadership. A&T did not say why the two coaches are no longer employed. But the pair have been in the middle of a dispute that has played out over the past month. A first-year cheerleader went public Feb. 1 with allegations that she had been raped last fall by an A&T senior who was a member of the marching band. The cheerleader also said that her coaches failed to report the alleged assault to other university officials as required under federal law She demanded that the two be fired. A&T’s cheerleaders haven’t performed at men’s or women’s basketball games since the allegations came out. The university said this week that the squad will be absent from the teams' final two home basketball games next week and from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament that starts March 11. An athletics department spokesman said this week that A&T has benched the squad because it’s “look(ing) out for their best interest” because the cheerleaders are under such intense public scrutiny. The freshman cheerleader told WXII (NBC, Channel 12) on Thursday that she’s “extremely grateful” that the two coaches stepped down. Read more: www.greensboro.com/news/schools/two-cheerleading-coaches-are-out-at-n-c-a-t/article_162b6f37-aedb-5c1e-8325-963124d3a2db.html
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Post by Bornthrilla on Mar 13, 2019 8:59:32 GMT -5
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Post by Bornthrilla on Apr 9, 2019 8:18:21 GMT -5
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