LSU president says staff could be moved around -- not fired -- as a result of scandal

LSU interim president Tom Galligan said Wednesday that he may change up the job duties of some staff members following the coverup of sexual misconduct and abuse at Louisiana’s flagship university, but he again stopped short of saying anyone would be fired as a result of the scandal.

“I would anticipate … that there may not be people that are in the position that they are in now,” Galligan told state lawmakers at a state budget hearing Wednesday evening.

In an interview, he clarified that he meant some people at LSU might keep their current jobs, but the people and issues they are responsible for overseeing might change as a result of their past responses to allegations of physical or sexual abuse.

Galligan said he was continuing to review the cases in which allegations of domestic violence, rape and other sexual misconduct were ignored, purposefully hidden or not reported to the proper authorities. He told lawmakers that any personnel changes would come before the Louisiana Legislature’s current session ends in the middle of June.

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