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insensitive to complainants and witnesses, and inaccurate regarding certain facts, causing harm to the University and its community,” the 92 page report states.

The report worsened the division between faculty that believed Anderson and faculty that didn’t, spurring angry “reply all” emails that circulated the entire department. Declarations of support were made towards Anderson, and others defended Reynolds’ decision not to apologize. Committees on civility, equity, inclusion, and harassment were created to heal the division. The English department brought in a mediator and encouraged faculty to attend mediation meetings, as well as complete mandatory sexual harassment training.

“The session [with the mediator] was all about ‘How can we as a department fix these problems?’ And I remember saying and thinking that we as a department can’t fix these problems because this is a university culture problem,” said Moberly. “This is a leadership problem.”

Even after two years, tensions are still present.

“It’s just like an appalling lack of empathy from the creative writing program, from people in the English department who were here at the time,” said Anderson. “It’s just not an emotionally safe environment for survivors. And I know from the students who were involved, that it hurts them that they have not had ... an acknowledgement [of harm] from the department.”

For Anderson, healing requires overcoming that division, and receiving an acknowledgment of harm from the English department and creative writing program.

“The fact that we know all this wrongdoing took place and the English department and the creative writing [program] have never issued a statement to the victims... To me, that is an embarrassment to the university, a slap in the face of all survivors of sexual violence, and there’s no excuse for it.”

Anderson wants ODU to acknowledge Broderick’s participation in the statement sent to The Virginian-Pilot, which he told investigators that he never saw.

“ODU needs to have Broderick’s name removed from the [Broderick Dining Commons] building,” said Anderson.

ODU’s Broderick Dining Commons are named after former president Broderick and his wife, Kate. There are also multiple scholarships named after Broderick.

“It is documented by an independent investigation that he maliciously attacked and victimblamed survivors of sexual violence in the press,” she said. “We still have a building named after John Broderick, who got caught in the Nixon Peabody investigation … being the architect of the attack in the press, lying to the public saying that he didn’t have anything to do with it when he did, trying to obstruct the investigation by saying he couldn’t remember any of the [events] they were asking him about.

“To me, it’s shocking. And it should still be a