All of the football player's witnesses in the second hearing had obviously heard the tapes and rehearsed their testimony. When we finally got the tapes, the federal judge gave us less than 72 hours to review more than 10 hours of badly recorded testimony with lots of gaps, and then to beef up the Complaint. The federal judge put such a strong protective order on the tapes that my lawyer decided not to let me listen so that no one could say I was violating the protective order when I talked about what I remember happening at those hearings. One of those secret motions was designed to scare me into giving up. I think Virginia Tech treated me this way because I had the nerve to complain about two of their precious football players.
Football is the last all-male major sport.
I know those football players got preferential treatment because they are members of a privileged all- male class. I know that I was treated differently because I am a member of the second-class. What makes me maddest of all is that Virginia Tech could do this and keep it secret. I doubt that Virginia Tech really knows how many of its athletes have criminal histories even before they are recruited. The rest of us come to college believing we are safe.