WASHINGTON/LANSING (WKZO AM/FM) — Both of Michigan’s two U.S. Senators, Gary Peters and Debbie Stabenow have joined the growing number of officials calling for the resignation or termination of MSU President Lou Anna Simon.
Peters, who is a Spartan, says “it has become clear that the leadership at Michigan State University has failed to adequately prevent, address or respond to the victimization of young women and girls on its campus”.
He says in order for the healing to begin, their needs to be a change in leadership.
The Michigan House of Representatives is now also on record, voting 96 to 11 for a resolution calling for her resignation.
Speaker Tom Leonard says he would personally go further, saying the entire Board of Trustees should follow her out the door.
Rep. David Maturen of Vicksburg voted no, calling the house’s action premature as the investigation just getting underway. While saying “the victims deserve our most profound sympathy”, Maturen says the Attorney General is now probing the issue and he feels the resolution, which implies that Simon had knowledge of the abuse but failed to act is “a rush to judgement”.
