S25 Ep10: Connected Some Dots
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Something Was Wrong is intended for mature audiences and discusses topics that may be upsetting. Please consume the following episodes with care. This season discusses sexual, physical and psychological violence. For a full content warning, sources and resources for each episode, please visit the episode notes. Opinions shared by guests of the show are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Broken Cycle Media. The podcast and any linked materials should not be misconstrued as a substitution for legal or medical advice. We reached out to Professor Cato Buss and the University of Central Oklahoma for comment in response to allegations in the weeks prior to this episode's release. We have not received a response.
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Previously on Something Was Wrong...
By my last semester in school, the veil had been completely lifted and I had no interest in seeing him at all once I had graduated. I then decided that I wanted to file a Title IX complaint against him.
What personal experiences led to filing a Title IX complaint?
She asked, do you remember a few years ago when all that Title IX shit happened? And I said, yes. And she was like, well, all of it was true. I offered to be a witness if she wanted me to be.
The first time we filed the Title IX report, Miranda did not feel comfortable disclosing that this relationship was happening, and now she's going to. And again, the adults in my life, they didn't have all the information, and they're going to do the right thing now. And Kato is not going to have access to these young girls.
Within a month, my life was the same. His life was, as far as I know, pretty much the same. Nothing changed. Emily, who was Olivia's professor advocate at UCO, Emily's distant cousin, Sheila, took on our case. We had a few Zoom meetings with Sheila about the process of Title IX and the implications of our suit. They submitted the complaint in May of 2021.
Here's Olivia.
There were seven plaintiffs in our lawsuit, me and Miranda, our professor that was my faculty liaison, and then several other girls, including Morgan, who had experienced sexual harassment or like inappropriate behavior, retaliation from Cato. It was originally that professor's idea to start the lawsuit because after Title IX did nothing and she was still working there, she didn't lose her job, but pretty much lost her job over it. We met with the attorney and again, we felt like this person really wants to help us. She felt confident that the case was really strong. Miranda felt really good about having a new chance at getting some sort of resolution to this. But that process was genuinely fucking humiliating.
It was so awful. Essentially, what ended up happening was the lawsuit got filed. It got picked up by the media. It was everywhere.
How did the Title IX complaint process unfold for the plaintiffs?
His face was on the news. And it was being shared by everybody that we knew from college, not from college. And there were a couple... articles that were being shared that like names weren't redacted. And so for Miranda, she felt really mortified because we knew that it would be in the press, but we didn't understand how that would feel. So that day that it got picked up, I was at work and I saw the email from our attorney and texted Miranda. She was also at work and we both left, immediately came to my house. I have never seen Miranda like that in my life. It was horrifying. heartbreaking. That whole day and like weeks that followed, it would bubble up every now and again where people would start sharing it.
Bunches of people dropped out and they were having meetings about it and protests. It was a whole thing. It was hard because I think she felt in a lot of ways that all these people that weren't even her friends in college suddenly now cared so much about it but never cared to like reach out or say anything whenever they noticed that he was inappropriate with her but also just having your most intimately traumatizing experience publicized like that with your name on it was something that I don't think that she could have ever prepared for or really any of us could have ever prepared for and as a friend watching her experience that it's almost like there was nothing that I could say to make that better for her
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What content warnings are relevant for this episode?
0:00–1:35
2
What personal experiences led to filing a Title IX complaint?
1:35–3:39
3
How did the Title IX complaint process unfold for the plaintiffs?
3:39–5:39
4
What was the public and media response to the lawsuit?
5:39–8:38
5
How did the Supreme Court ruling impact the case?
8:38–11:39
6
What emotional challenges did the plaintiffs face during the lawsuit?
11:39–14:21
7
What lessons do the guests want to share about institutional accountability?
14:21–17:42
8
How has this experience shaped the guests' views on trust and healing?
17:42–47:19