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Tribune Editorial: Utah State University is right to accept responsibility for its abusive piano program

(Al Hartmann | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jody Burnett, chairman of board of trustees at Utah State University and USU President Noelle Cockett hold a press conference in Logan Friday April 6 to unveil the results of an investigation into its piano department. Twenty current and former music students at USU and the Logan school’s attached Youth Conservatory had complained to school administrators of mistreatment and sexual harrassment by the piano faculty, dating back to 2004 and as recently as 2017.