When Hailey Allen heard last week that Tiffany Turley was named Brigham Young University's new Title IX coordinator, she began to sob.
Her anxiety skyrocketed, she said, and the post-traumatic stress disorder she said she suffers as a result of being raped as a student at the university was triggered.
"I felt they had lied to us," Allen said. "Given us hope that they would change their ways and then didn't."
Allen and about 30 other alumni and sexual assault victims are concerned that Turley and Lisa Leavitt, selected to serve as a full-time advocate for sexual assault victims, do not have the experience and outlook the jobs require.
Before being named the new Title IX coordinator, Turley was manager of the university's Women's Services and Resources. Leavitt worked as a psychologist in the university's student counseling center.
The alumni and sexual assault victims criticize the decision to fill both the coordinator and victim advocate jobs with internal candidates, when the school's "policies and practices failed to support victims of sexual crimes," their letter states.
"Hiring from within is not only a missed opportunity to bring in new ideas and attitudes that could affect real change at BYU, it also runs the risk that said persons will be seen by survivors as being loyal to the university's interests rather than to the victims they serve," the letter said.
“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
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