There's a saying about one good story deserves another.
Given all the uproar about DV surrounding an assistant football coach at Ohio State that seems to have also snared the head football coach there, Urban Meyer, here's another apparent DV case involving another college head coach.
There 's been no information whether the coach at Brown University reported the incident to the Title IX folks, but there was a clear DV charge filed. From the response of her attorney and Brown University, privacy seemingly sways to a different toon in Rhode Island than in the state of Ohio.
Given all the uproar about DV surrounding an assistant football coach at Ohio State that seems to have also snared the head football coach there, Urban Meyer, here's another apparent DV case involving another college head coach.
There 's been no information whether the coach at Brown University reported the incident to the Title IX folks, but there was a clear DV charge filed. From the response of her attorney and Brown University, privacy seemingly sways to a different toon in Rhode Island than in the state of Ohio.
BROWN UNIVERSITY'S HEAD WOMEN'S BASKETBALL COACH, A FEMALE, CHARGED WITH DV... FIVE DAYS AGO.
August 7, 2018 at 1:40pm
Was anyone aware that Brown University's female head women's basketball coach, Sarah Behn, was charged with domestic violence against her husband about a week ago? I wasn't. That's kind of interesting... I guess outrage only works one way and double standards are alive and well, not only in the media, but also with the variety of different rights groups and movements permeating today's society. Apparently, DV is only newsworthy when it's a male assistant coach allegedly attacking his wife, but not when a female head coach has actually been charged with attacking her husband. The attorney and the university spokeswoman quotes are also interesting.
Jerome Sweeney, an attorney for Behn, said: “She denies the allegation. It’s a private matter.”A spokeswoman for Brown University declined comment, saying “the university is not at liberty to discuss individual employees outside the context of their work activities, or any individual employee matters, which are not public.”
I realize that Brown is a private institution, but there seems to be contradictory standards at play here. Meyer, a guy who isn't even the focus of a domestic violence charge, is being skewered for mucking up a presser, and for something one of his assistants allegedly did, while a female head coach at one of the country's most prominent and exclusive universities was legally charged with DV and it's barely a blip on the media's radar. Different situations, yes, but enough overlap to show that the media's moral outrage is very selective.
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