I'm not Noodle, but my guess would be (a) the number of victims are much greater, (b) the length of time is longer, and (c) some of what Nassar did was in the course of performing his duties as a physician at MSU, whereas PSU could argue that none of what he did was in the course of his duties as a football coach. (c) is something of a technical legal argument, but it is a valid distinction.
My primary basis for my view that MSU is more responsible than PSU was is the fact that Nassar sexually abused and assaulted young women and girls (as young as 6) in the course of his employment by MSU. Also, multiple people told MSU that Nassar was engaging in inappropriate touching. Yet, due to systemic failures throughout MSU, he was allowed to continue sexually assaulting young women
in his MSU office, during "medical treatments" for which the victims parents were
paying MSU. You are right that this line of reasoning has some legal underpinnings, but I was not really basing my opinion on those legal technicalities.
To me, it just seems that MSU, the institution, is more blameworthy than PSU. Maybe I feel that way right now because MSU is trying to wash its hands of everything rather than looking in the mirror. But, consider this from the article linked below:
Dr. William Strampel, the dean of Michigan State’s College of Osteopathic Medicine and Nassar’s boss, barred Nassar from seeing patients as investigations were launched by both the campus police and MSU’s Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives. The latter assigned to the case a new hire in the school’s general counsel office with a background in labor law. Within three months it “exonerated” Nassar.
Strampel reinstated Nassar, but not before putting restrictions on him, which, an email detailed, included:
“1) We will have another person (resident, nurse, etc) in the room whenever we are approaching a patient to perform procedures of anything close to a sensitive area.
“2) The procedure which caused the patient emotional distress because of her interpretation will be modified in the future to be sure that there is little to no skin to skin contact when in these regions. Should this be absolutely necessary, the procedure will be explained in detail with another person in the room for both the explanation and procedure.”
While Strampel’s claim of “we will have …” suggests significant oversight, Nassar was actually allowed to operate on the honor system. No one informed patients, their parents or even the nurses in the office about the restrictions. Strampel told police “he did not see the need to follow-up to ensure that he was complying with the guidelines that were common sense for all physicians.” He didn’t tell “other employees in Sports Medicine … because they did not know about the investigation that had taken place, and since Dr. Nassar was cleared of all wrong doing.” Basically, Nassar was still considered an honorable man of medicine.
Also troubling is that while the MSU Title IX investigation had cleared him, Nassar was still under investigation by the campus police, which are more equipped to handle these kinds of cases.
Unfortunately, that too proved fruitless, not to mention terribly slow. It wasn’t until July 2015, some 14 months after the initial complaint, that police forwarded their investigation to Ingham (Michigan) County prosecutors. It took another five months, December 2015, for prosecutors to conclude they wouldn’t charge Nassar. Instead, a campus detective was sent to meet with Nassar and “advise” him to “thoroughly explain his medical technique to patients prior to touching them” as well as “have someone in the exam room at all times.”
Yet again, though, nothing was put in place to enforce that.
“At least 14 of my clients were assaulted after 2014,” said Mick Grewal, a Lansing-attorney representing dozens of Nassar’s victims. “That should not have happened. This was systematic failure by Michigan State.”
https://sports.yahoo.com/case-repor...-state-led-larry-nassar-terror-010033574.html