According to the President of OSU the existence of a statute of limitations on sexual assault cases is “appalling”, but gosh darn it if he won’t try to railroad the accused anyway.

Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:

OSU looks to punish accused students 16 years after alleged sexual assault

Declaring the checks and balances in the legal system to be “appalling,” the president of Oregon State University said the school will re-open a sexual assault case from 1998 and “determine if there are any actions we can take now under OSU’s code of student conduct” against the accused former students, according to The Oregonian.

The impetus for Edward Ray’s probably-unprecedented move is a lengthy Oregonian article by a sports columnist, John Canzano. The previously unidentified accuser, Brenda Tracy, laid out a horrifying story about sexual assault by OSU football players for Canzano, who also went back to the police records from the investigation.

Tracy didn’t cooperate with police at the time – the accused players “pointed fingers at each other to various degrees,” Canzano wrote – but admits now “I wish I’d have pressed charges.”