re: Current and Former Alabama Player/Coach Arrests

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Courtney Upshaw beat up his girlfriend.

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A Stanford Football Player Accused of Sexual Assault Remains on the Team

A footbal player at Stanford is slated to play in a bowl game on Friday after being found to commit sexual assault by a majority of a university panel, the New York Times reported.

According to the Times, a Stanford sophomore accused the football player — both unnamed by the Times — of raping her after a fraternity party (the football player, who did not respond to interview requests from the Times, told school officials they had consensual sex). Instead of a police investigation, the case was handled by Stanford’s in-house disciplinary board, a panel of administrators, faculty members and students. The football player was found responsible of committing sexual assault by three of the five panelists twice.

But because Stanford required a 4-1 majority for sexual assault cases, the football player wasn’t punished — and remains on the football team’s roster ahead of the school’s Friday bowl game against North Carolina. The woman told the Times that she left Stanford so she doesn’t have to run into the player around campus. “But do I have to leave Stanford to feel safe? I’m certain that this isn’t the way the Title IX process was meant to work,” the woman told the Times.