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They probably consulted admin and then legal immediately. She went to the authorities within days of calling. She did the right thing. Mac did the right thing per university. She wanted Mac to be aware of what was going on which is hard because she was trying to help give him a heads up. It instead lead to judgement against him.
There is probably a clause in the employment contracts that allows them to do that, like actions detrimental to the reputation of the university or something like that. Until it became public knowledge, they probably didn't have the ability under the contract to do that as he wasn't arrested or charged at the time the TPO was issued. Once it became public knowledge they had cause to suspend him. If he hadn't agreed to resign, he would have been fired probably as soon as the TPO was made permanent or when charges were filed.
It should lead to judgement against Mac. Unless the story is totally fabricated. When you hear concern that someone might kill himself or others, your first call shouldn't be to a f**king lawyer or the HR department, you call authorities immediately. Suppose Tumpkin had killed himself after that warning from Jane - do you think "well I immediately called my lawyer so I thought we were good" would have absolved Mac?
This is the 2nd "scandal" that Plati has harmed the University by not being proactive.
I'm not victim blaming at all. I just want to know why, if she was so concerned he was going to hurt himself, or someone else (who very well could have been Mac himself), she would call Mac first. I don't know what she expected him to do.
Mick, those field trips are incredible (Rockies, Nuggets, Broncos on draft night, CU basketball games), and he feeds us out of his own pocket and copies everything so we have no expenses for text books for his class. I'd love to know the gripe one of my peers had with him, because he always was so helpful with the radio station, gave us extra passes for the box, coordinated interviews and his staff does the same (they are really great too). Only thing he didn't do that I can think of that might have made someone mad was that we requested the players come over to the studio for a weeknight deal and he preferred they be taped in advance so the player didn't have to have an obligation in the evening.
He told us in class where he went through crisis management scenarios that any situation that has nothing to do with athletics is automatically coordinated by the campus PR people. He said he sometimes has input but most of the time those situations are taken over and mostly driven by the university legal people. Could tell he wanted to tell us more but pretty much cut it off there. I remember that because of the comparison he used, citing a Flintstones where Fred wanted to be Mr. Slate for a day to be the boss, only to find out Mr. Slate answered to a board of directors. People think you're in charge and you're not. I saw the layers of people in the journalism school, can't imagine what it's like on the upper levels of the university.
You're going to have to help me understand why it takes "an organization like this" longer than any other to do to right thing? He wasn't a union employee. Mac has a boss and an HR department like many other large organizations - why would the wheels move any slower here than other large organizations? Sorry, but that excuse falls flat to me.
