MSU President John Engler (Photo: Screen grab from Detroit News video)
MSU President John Engler (From Detroit News video)
A mass of people, from school officials to students to members of the community have become increasingly convinced that former Gov. John Engler is the wrong person to fill the post as interim president of Michigan State University in wake of the Larry Nassar scandal.
Now, 120 of Nassar's victims have signed a letter calling for Engler to resign or be fired by the board of trustees, reports the Lansing State Journal.
In their lengthy statement, the 120 “sister survivors” wrote that Engler “has only reinforced the culture of abuse at MSU.”
“There is no debate: President Engler has failed miserably,” they said in the letter. “Nothing at MSU - none of the mindsets that allowed Larry Nassar to abuse children for decades - have changed. Therefore, it is our position that MSU cannot move forward and become an institution of integrity and safety until John Engler is no longer president.”
Two of the university’s publicly-elected trustees, Democrats Brian Mosallam and Dianne Byrum, have called for the resignation of Engler.
“Unfortunately, and with great regret, John Engler’s tenure as interim president has continued the bleeding rather than stem it,” Brian Mosallam said in a statement released Friday morning.
