By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--May 17, 2018
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The university’s board of trustees agreed to the settlement terms Tuesday night. On Wednesday morning, the board’s chairman, Brian Breslin, issued a statement saying the board was “truly sorry to all the survivors and their families for what they have been through, and we admire the courage it has taken to tell their stories.” Michigan Sen. Tonya Schuitmaker, chair of the subcommittee for higher education appropriation, said the university hadn’t approached the state for money to cover the settlement. “I would certainly hope before they agreed to a settlement they figured out how to pay for it,” she said. “Whether it’s endowment, or licensing or asking donors or having insurance pay for it.” A Michigan State spokeswoman said the school “will be working on the solution in the near future.” In testimony earlier this year before the state legislature, Mr. Engler warned that the costs for the settlement ultimately would be borne by “students and taxpayers.” “I don’t know if it would force bankruptcy (for the university) or not,” he said. “I hope not.”He hopes not? Mr. Engler, by the way, is former Michigan Gov. John Engler – a Republican and an MSU grad – who agreed to serve as the university’s interim president after the Nassar scandal took down then-President LouAnna Simon.
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