Almost 100 days after it began, the investigation into SUCOLitis, the satirical blog dedicated to Syracuse University’s College of Law, is reaching an end.

Len Audaer, the second-year law student under investigation for harassment since October, and lawyer Mark Blum have been in mediations with a federal judge and representatives from the law school for the past two Mondays. The meetings have each lasted about three hours, Audaer said. The group hopes it will be able to come to an agreement within the next week, he said.

 

‘We’ll sign all the paperwork and that will be the end of the matter,’ Audaer said. He could not release specific details on what the agreement will be at this point.

 

Faculty prosecutor Gregory Germain proposed settling the matter with a federal judge, Audaer said. Germain suggested the Hon. George Lowe for the position and Audaer said he and his lawyer agreed. Assistant faculty prosecutor Steven Wechsler has also been present at the meetings.

 

At this point there was nothing to report, Germain said in an e-mail.

Audaer said he thought settling the matter in this way was fair and respectable of the law school. He said the issue is now ‘old news,’ and he is glad to see it not go to trial, which would mean continuing the investigation into the spring semester.

 

‘It feels great,’ Audaer said. ‘I can start a new semester without this dragging on.’

 

dkmcbrid@syr.edu

Published on January 19, 2011 at 12:00 pm

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