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Student journalist had to go through Arizona to get Missouri documents.
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St. Louis Journalism Review
Publication Date: 01-MAY-04 |
Format: Online - approximately 1304 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access |
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Article Excerpt
I was 11-years-old when the details of the most sordid story I have reported played out at a college I had never heard of. Nine years later, I was news editor of the Index at Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo., digging up documents using open-records laws from a state a thousand miles away. These records revealed a huge ethical misstep by Truman's administration in 1992-93 that possibly resulted in the sexual assault of seven teenage girls in Arizona a decade later.
My work on the story began in September 2002 when a detective with the Flagstaff, Ariz., police department called to ask me for copies of the Index archives from 1992 and 1993. She said she was looking for any stories about the departure of a former women's swimming and diving coach named Charles A. Arabas. I found a November 1992 story that reported Arabas had ceased coaching the team but gave no reason for his departure, citing only "personal reasons." I called the Index alumnus who had written the story, Rob Schneider, who at the time was working as weekend sports editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He said most people at...
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