This past October, amid a fervor of displeasure with the Washington State University Student Conduct Board’s handling of former football player Robert Barber’s case, President Kirk Schulz announced they’d be hiring an outside law firm to look into the SCB. In a report given to the school last month and released publicly earlier this week, Lyons O’Dowd says they found no evidence of racial or ethnic bias in the hearing of conduct cases.
However, Lyons O’Dowd did find that, in interviews with people involved with the board and those outside it, that there was a perception of bias not only towards Washington State football players but towards members of the school’s Greek community.