This week has brought a series of articles from the LA Times describing a range of reactions from USC President Nikias and Provost Quick about the allegations about the former Medical School Dean leading eventually to the decision of the University to fire him and barred him from the campus. President Nikias stated that he did not know of Carmen Puliofito's secret life. The LA Times has been challenging this claim with descriptions of the ways their journalists tried to reach the University's officials over the past 15 months. You signed the petition "Women in STEM Matter" that features another story at USC where a woman engineer, Nathalie Gosset, trusted that she could report to Human Resources the alleged inappropriate conduct of another executive at USC. The backlash was the elimination of her job. When/if this story gets picked up by the LA Times, The USC President would be challenged to claim that he did not know about Ms. Gosset's situation because change.org has been delivering to his inbox periodic updates of this petition over the past few months. With nearly 2,500 signatures and hundreds of comments that you provided, it would be hard to listen to a University President state that he did not know. In addition, the The Daily Trojan, the USC student newspaper, placed the story on their front page in October 2016 following a CBS breaking news segment with an interview of Nathalie Gosset and her attorney Lisa Bloom. Denial can go only so far.