S25 Ep9: Flipped the Script
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What content warnings should listeners be aware of?
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.
How did the Title IX office become involved in the allegations?
Thank you so much for listening.
Think you know me, you don't know me well at all You don't know anybody till you talk to someone
last time on Something Was Wrong. I call my theater ed advisor. She gets back to me and she tells me that this is something I need to bring to Title IX. And that's when I got introduced to UCO's Title IX office.
What challenges did the guests face while navigating the Title IX process?
He essentially asked me to be a character witness for him since they had called me in. Right after that conversation, the Title IX office was right by where we were talking, and I walked there and met with the Title IX lady. I told her immediately that he had told me everything and that none of it was true.
She told me that regarding my allegations, that his initial response was that, quote, I can't say she's lying. So you'd think, oh, closed case, right? No.
I think the Title IX office really took advantage of a bunch of naive girls in a number of ways. And one of them was telling me that it would be anonymous, that Miranda wouldn't see any information that would clue in to the fact that it was me who said this.
It wasn't until winter break when I didn't see him for three weeks. I was really, for the first time that whole semester, given the time to reflect on the implications of her Title IX against him and what that meant for me.
What was the emotional impact of the allegations on the survivors?
Towards the end of my second semester of junior year and between Scotland, our contact slowly dwindled. Here's Miranda. When I went into my senior year, I was so exhausted from hiding this secret, especially from all of my peers. I was just really uninterested in everything that was going on. I didn't really have fun at parties. I hung out with Olivia less and was just really tired of being at school and having to be around him in any sort of capacity. He was still my acting teacher. So I was still taking classes of his and I was still seeking training from him on the side because I needed him to help me audition for graduate school and prepare for these big things that were coming up after my senior year.
And I needed him to write me letters of recommendation. So I was still like continuing to contact him in those ways. None of it was sexual or as if we were in a relationship anymore, but we never acknowledged it. He would still try at times, like he would text me and be like, I really miss you. Did you ever feel like there was any sort of retaliation by him as you were pulling away? There was no giving me bad grades or withholding educational stuff. from me. He wrote me glowing letters of recommendation for graduate schools and gave me all of the training and support that I needed to perform at these graduate school auditions. The only real bit of retaliation is that my senior year He was directing a play and we did fall auditions for everything.
One of my good friends at the time was directing a play that I really wanted to be in and he knew that I wanted to be in, but they were happening at the same time. And so if I was in her play, I couldn't be cast in his play.
How did the university respond to the allegations?
I later found out from her when she found out about our relationship that he refused to let her cast me in her show. So he insisted that he cast me in his show and he purposefully didn't cast me in a lead role. It's like a Greek show. So he cast me as a part of the chorus, which is the opposite of what I was slated to be cast in my senior year of being in that department.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What content warnings should listeners be aware of?
0:00–0:47
2
How did the Title IX office become involved in the allegations?
0:47–1:32
3
What challenges did the guests face while navigating the Title IX process?
1:32–2:44
4
What was the emotional impact of the allegations on the survivors?
2:44–4:42
5
How did the university respond to the allegations?
4:42–7:03
6
What led to the decision to file a lawsuit against the university?
7:03–8:31
7
What was the experience of going public with the allegations?
8:31–10:21
8
How can friends best support survivors of abuse?
10:21–47:43