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Abuse allegations at Phillips Exeter prompt investigation (principal: hubby of Dem NH gov)
Boston Globe ^ | 4/5/16 | Travis Andersen

Posted on 04/06/2016 7:47:34 PM PDT by raccoonradio

A sex-abuse scandal at Phillips Exeter Academy widened on Tuesday, as police said they are investigating “multiple allegations of misconduct and abuse” involving former faculty members at the prestigious New Hampshire boarding school.

The announcement came less than a week after the school publicly disclosed that Rick Schubart — who held positions as chair of the history department, director of admissions, dorm adviser, and coach during his nearly 40-year career — had been permanently barred from campus after admitting to sexual misconduct in two cases dating back to the 1970s and 1980s.

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The scandal has also affected politics in New Hampshire, where the Democratic governor, Maggie Hassan, is running for the US Senate against the Republican incumbent, Kelly Ayotte.

Hassan’s husband, Tom Hassan, was principal of Phillips Exeter in 2011 when the school reported Schubart’s misconduct and forced him to resign.

Tom Hassan, who stepped down as principal last year, on Friday apologized for failing to publicly disclose Schubart’s misconduct in 2011 and 2015, saying in a statement that the school was “attempting to balance the privacy and wishes of the victim with the utmost need to ensure the safety of members of the community.”

Schubart has been a regular contributor to Maggie Hassan’s campaigns and was listed as a member of her Rockingham County Steering Committee when she ran for governor in 2012.

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts; US: New Hampshire; US: New York; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: cair; hassan; islamists; madrassah; maggiehassan; msa; muslimbrotherhood; newhampshire; pedophile; phillipsexeter; radicalislamists; tomhassan
School inspired the "Gravesend Academy" of John Irving's novel A Prayer for Owen Meany, filmed as Simon Birch
1 posted on 04/06/2016 7:47:34 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

This is also the school in “A Separate Peace” by John Knowles.


2 posted on 04/06/2016 7:55:24 PM PDT by JoeDetweiler
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To: raccoonradio

That was a great, epic read. Makes me want to reread it


3 posted on 04/06/2016 7:55:49 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: raccoonradio

This sort of thing didn’t happen when I was there (Class of 68). Of course we all knew who the gays were.


4 posted on 04/06/2016 8:03:59 PM PDT by Argus
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To: raccoonradio

Margaret Hassan is married to Thomas Hassan, principal of the prestigious Phillips Exeter Academy, that some are beginning to describe as the Phillips Exeter Madrassah.

As principal, Mr. Hassan is culpable for enabling members of radical Islamists organizations like CAIR, MSA, and the Muslim Brotherhood, to propagandize the impressionable student body

http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/141861/governor-margaret-hassan-new-hampshire


5 posted on 04/06/2016 8:05:44 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

I am now very glad I didn’t qualify to go there. I tried though.


6 posted on 04/06/2016 8:46:50 PM PDT by PrairieLady2 (Lyin' Ted scruze Cruz...)
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To: Argus

My father also attended Exeter, Class of ‘36 and Harvard, Class of ‘40. He’s rolling in his grave at the events occurring in both institutions today.


7 posted on 04/06/2016 8:58:13 PM PDT by peggybac (My boss I respect, my father I revered. Chris Rock, Mr. Obama is NOT my boss or my father.)
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To: peggybac

I’m rolling in my grave too, and I’m not even dead.


8 posted on 04/06/2016 10:11:52 PM PDT by Argus
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To: raccoonradio

Most famous and respected prep school in the US.


9 posted on 04/07/2016 3:01:56 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (uff said.)
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To: Argus

So you and I (PA’68) were probably at the Andover-Exeter game in the Fall of ‘67 watching our ringers beat your ringers that year after a long drought!

BTW, my PA’68 classmate, Jay Panetta, is married to the Exeter President of the Board of Trustees.

We lost two gay classmates who had been involved in theater on Broadway in the HIV epidemic in the ‘80s.


10 posted on 04/07/2016 6:26:36 PM PDT by Seizethecarp
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To: Seizethecarp

Finis origine pendet, brother.


11 posted on 04/07/2016 6:47:24 PM PDT by Argus
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