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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

https://www.elevenwarriors.com/coll...him-immediately

I thought this was an interesting take that is 100% accurate and drives home the absurdity of all this.

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If Nassar had been unlawfully exploiting Michigan State trademarks for, say, an unlicensed t-shirt business the university would have hammered him within hours of its discovery. It wouldn't have even mattered if it was successful or not - if Nassar had used green and white, printed GO GREEN GO WHITE or SPARTANS WILL or any of the numerous, often dubious marks MSU holds to promote his own interests away from the clinic he would have immediately received a cease and desist order from university lawyers.

That's what places like Michigan State look for. It's a daily whack-a-mole game for them. Here is a short list of the crimes Michigan State recently discovered and immediately put a stop to:

A Short's Brewing Company poster with "Sparty On" on it

A picture on Twitter showing Sparty holding a can of Xyience Energy Drink.

A children's baseball team in Texas that had a Spartan helmet as a team logo

In 2015 Michigan State issued 1,334 takedown requests for material it deemed in violation of its trademarks. That's not the total number, either - that's just Facebook photos. By the way, Ohio State is at least as aggressive as MSU in this regard. It's a shared priority among organizations of size and wealth. There are people deputized within these places to be on the watch for this type of wrongdoing and take action.

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

General Dog posted:

Also not to paint with broad strokes, but it's safe to assume that a man with multiple daughters in high-level gymnastics is probably among the worst people in the world, at least top 10% (albeit not the worst person in that room at that time).

Do we know they were high level? I was under the impression that even some rec level competitors in the East Lansing area went to him for treatment.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Konstantin posted:

Michigan State has a $2 billion endowment. They should use every penny to provide full financial compensation to every victim, and donate whatever's left to charities that help prevent sexual assault. gently caress them if they raise tuition a penny because of this poo poo.

lol yea gently caress all the good actual poo poo being done by people at the university who have absolutely nothing to do with any of this.

Truther Vandross fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Mar 28, 2018

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

rare Magic card l00k posted:

Maybe the university shouldn't have paid a dude to use their resources to whack off to university-funded child rape then.

yea so go after the people who actually contributed to that and not all endowed funds, some of which pay for research and other stuff in departments completely unrelated to Nassar. The university needs to pay for sure but it does nobody any good to poo poo all over unrelated parties because top leadership did them wrong.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

howe_sam posted:

Did MSU even ask Granholm if she wanted the interim job? Seems like she would've been a better choice for a host of reasons.

She's too smart to walk into that loving clownshow

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

the fact that they almost don't fit on the stage is super loving jarring

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Fifty Three posted:

They absolutely saw that coming and gave zero fucks.

And rightly so

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

There were a bunch of MSU softball players IIRC

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