He has since passed.

I never had a problem with him; good friends of mine did, though.

and he was my rector in the tower, just FTR.

But what makes things difficult is that those uncomfortable "locker room" moments aside nothing ever seemed to be predatory with him. The times I and/or my buddies were in bad shape coming in the door he didn't get involved but instead had an RA or the friends of the guy in bad shape make sure they got safely up to their rooms. I never heard rumors of anything beyond the, for lack of a better term, flagrant and public stuff. Like, when my grandmother died and I went for some counseling because I wasn't going to get home for the funeral, there was no grabassery at all.

And why does that make things difficult? Because with Burtchaell known to all of us coming into the school, and with the rumors about other rectors (like King), and with the flagrant nature of the hugs or other ass-slappery, it normalized the stuff that did happen. But was it normal? In retrospect not at all, but in the context of the early-1990s and the stories about the truly disgusting and the general attempts to make a 500-plus person dorm into a home, it took on that "locker room" feel I described above. So nothing was said, certainly not by me, even though in retrospect things should have been said.

I lost touch with him after his departure and marriage. Traded Christmas cards for a while as he started the family and then one came back undeliverable and that was that. Glad to hear that the next phase of his life treated him well.

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The 2007 ND-UCLA game was a once in a lifetime experience, I hope

It sounds like things got better once Bill Kirk left ResLife, but I don't know how much better.

This is from perhaps the most disturbing incident in the report. Right after detailing the assault on "2025 Reporter" on p.18, the report goes on to say:

In the early 2000s, after graduating from Notre Dame, the student disclosed his experience with Fr. King at Holy Cross College to the VP of Student Affairs at Holy Cross College. The student recalled that during the meeting, the VP of Student Affairs stated that she would look into his allegations. The student never received any follow-up from Holy Cross College or the administrator. The administrator had no memory of this conversation, though she was adamant that if she had told the student that she was handling the situation, she would have followed through.[17]

[17] Notwithstanding her lack of recollection, she noted that the 2025 Reporter should not be discounted simply because she did not recall the conversation.

I am not sure about how it operates today. There are many problems with having the enforcement of regulations and rules done in an unfair or capricious way. One of them is that people will begin to operate outside the system and enforce rules in-house. This can work on occasion and for a time. But the inherent secrecy necessary can protect evil actors, whether in IRA run neighborhoods in Belfast, or in Zahm Hall in the 1990s. Honestly, I thought it did work in Zahm, until I found out it clearly didn’t.