USC should fire its president – and every bureaucrat who could have stopped George Tyndall’s campaign of abuse

A gynaecologist at one of America’s top universities is in the midst of a sexual assault scandal. Now its students and faculty are demanding change.

Attorney Gloria Allred flanked by Daniella Mohazab and Angela Esquivel Hawkins, who have filed a lawsuit against the University of Southern California
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Possess the wrong firearm after dark just one block west of Vermont Avenue, and the Los Angeles Police Department will have you pinned to the ground before you can say, “I can’t breathe.” Serially molest hundreds of your patients from your perch as the sole full-time gynaecologist at the University of Southern California Engemann Student Health Center, and it appears the bureaucrats and billionaires who run the school will protect you for years.By now the story has broken into national news, namely that Dr. George Tyndall stands accused of commenting on patients’ sexual potential and…

Possess the wrong firearm after dark just one block west of Vermont Avenue, and the Los Angeles Police Department will have you pinned to the ground before you can say, “I can’t breathe.” Serially molest hundreds of your patients from your perch as the sole full-time gynaecologist at the University of Southern California Engemann Student Health Center, and it appears the bureaucrats and billionaires who run the school will protect you for years.By now the story has broken into national news, namely that Dr. George Tyndall stands accused of commenting on patients’ sexual potential and attractiveness while pushing his fingers inside and outside of them, specifically preying upon and grooming Chinese nationals, keeping photos of students’ genitalia, and countless other ethical atrocities. The kicker: USC allowed him to practice for decades.Tyndall’s alleged conduct alone would constitute hundreds of instances of sexual battery. But even more horrifying than the crime is the apparent cover-up.At every level, it appears USC abetted Tyndall’s continued sexual abuse. By at least 2013, the upper echelons of USC’s administration lost their plausible deniability defense when the Office of Equity and Diversity conducted a wildly thorough internal investigation