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Brandon Vandenburg was one of four Vanderbilt University football players who gang-raped and videotaped an unconscious woman in 2013. He was convicted and sentenced to 17 years in prison, along with two other defendants, while one accepted a plea deal and another was an accessory.
After two Vanderbilt University football players were convicted of rape on January 27, 2015, Richard Bradley, who was the first mainstream journalist to question the Rolling Stone story, wrote a blogpost titled "Why Didn't Sabrina Rubin Erdely Write about Vanderbilt?" In the post, he asked: "Is Vanderbilt just not as sexy a story as UVA?"
RaDonda Vaught was a nurse who mistakenly killed a patient with vecuronium at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2017. She was convicted of criminally negligent homicide and impaired adult abuse in 2022, sparking controversy and debate over medical errors and justice.
Vanderbilt University is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee, named after shipping and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt. It was founded in 1873 as a Methodist institution and has since grown to enroll nearly 13,800 students from various backgrounds and countries.
Carol M. Swain is a retired professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University, who has written several books on race relations, immigration, and the Constitution. She has a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina and an MLS from Yale Law School, and is a frequent TV analyst and a former Tea Party activist.
The Slant is the humor and satire magazine of Vanderbilt University. Founded in 1886, it is a member of Vanderbilt Student Communications. Pranks. The magazine's content and staff pranks have often led to controversy at Vanderbilt.
The building became part of Vanderbilt University campus in 1979 when the university acquired Peabody College. [3] By 1988, students were holding protests on campus, arguing the building's name was offensive to black students. [5] As a result, the university added a memorial plaque near the building to contextualize the origin of the name. [5] [3]
Michael Eric Dyson is an American academic, author, Baptist minister, and radio host. He is a professor at Vanderbilt University and has written or edited more than twenty books on topics such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Nas, and Hurricane Katrina.