Kelly definitely knows more than he is letting out, and his attitude in these last few interviews/press conferences is pretty good. That would lead me to believe that he feels good about something. Otherwise he is taking it really, really well from the outside looking in. Obviously he isn't going to go full meltdown about the situation even if it was all bad news, but like you said I think he already has a feeling who will be back and who won't. Just my thoughts.
I wasn't going to bring this up, but there are some statements Kelly has made that don't quite fit in to the status quo narrative of this whole thing.
Some revolve around when the individuals knew they were being investigated. If this thing happened and they investigated these guys from July 29th to August 15th without giving these guys any indication that they were investigating them, including the girl who most accounts have as being the one that tied all of the incidents together, so it was sprung on everyone with no warning, that would be one thing.
Now I have never been involved in an incident like this at ND, it is true. But I sat on a oversight board at two other institutions of higher learning, and I cannot think of a case in the general area of academic dishonesty where the subject of the investigation didn't have an idea that they were being investigated. In fact, I always found it funny, the worse the case, it seemed, the more paranoid the party became. Just like clockwork. It was kid of humorous; but I digress . . .
Anyway. He didn't have any idea until Jack called him, yet he or his staff had no contact with any of the individuals, even in notifying them that they shouldn't practice. I understand why he would conduct himself the way he is, but there are just some things that are off.
Carried forward to yesterday, when Kelly had the ultimate gem. To paraphrase, Kelly wouldn't have a problem with any of the four attending a position meeting, but to the best of his knowledge, none had. After Anna Hickey reported a KVR citing . . .
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