INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — NCAA President Mark Emmert is leading a push to make campuses safer.
The governing body for college athletics held its first violence prevention summit Friday in Indianapolis. Emmert scheduled the event to discuss issues such as rape, sexual assault and sexual battery among other topics.
Emmert says these concerns “haunt” campuses and society as a whole and that he has dealt with too many of these issues while president of the University of Washington and as LSU’s chancellor.
Emmert says campuses remain safer than society as a whole and that studies differ on whether athletes are more prone than other students to engage in violent behavior.
Former Syracuse quarterback Don McPherson also spoke during the morning session.
