Miranda

She didn't really get back to us with any ideas on how else to file or what we should do.

So from 2022 until the last couple of months, it existed in this weird limbo where the university never filed another motion to dismiss based off of the change in Title IX.

But the judge or the university never responded to our response to the motion to dismiss.

So it was just like sitting there and nothing happened.

Morgan found an article recently that said that the case was officially dropped, but they never informed us.

It's from, I think it's like a lawyer magazine.

It says, after a nearly two year gap in court filings, a separate lawsuit filed by six former UCO theater students alleging the university failed to protect them from sexual harassment by Kato Buss.

It was jointly dismissed by the plaintiffs and the university in February.

We had no idea.

No one told us that we were choosing to dismiss it because the article specifically says a joint dismissal.

We didn't decide to do that, but I guess they did.

People protested at the university a little bit, and the attention from the lawsuit did pull him out of teaching a lot of classes.

As of today, right now, he still teaches classes online.

I don't think he teaches in person, but he's still tenured and employed by university.

So culturally, it did do some good because it did remove him from a lot of his power at the university, which is great.

The lawsuit kind of went nowhere.

It was just attention from the public that did that.

Everything.

We joke all the time about how we experience something so shitty and something so awful.

Our friendship is the best thing to come out of this.