In March, UMBC was riding high, America’s darling after its upset win in the NCAA basketball tournament over top-seed Virginia.
The David-vs-Goliath victory only seemed to burnish UMBC’s reputation as a commuter-college-turned-nationally-respected research university headed by a president committed to academic excellence and diversity.
But yesterday speaker after speaker slammed the school at a campus event held in the wake of a federal lawsuit charging that UMBC has systematically minimized and covered up rapes.
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