On Wed., May 27, Aarefah Mosavi, student organizers and representatives from BAMN, The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary, attended the regularly scheduled Board of Trustees meeting at Mt. San Antonio College’s Founder’s Hall to address President and CEO Dr. Bill Scroggins and the Mt. SAC Board of Trustees.

During the public communications segment of the meeting, eight people, including Mosavi, claimed that the school had allegedly covered up a rape last year.

Mosavi started by explaining her situation the night of the alleged assault, saying multiple times that Chester Brown raped her and that the administration failed to give her a proper investigation. She accused the administration for not applying to federal standards.

“The station’s careless officers had me sign the wrong police report, and the stations detectives decided to denounce my heart-broken brother that as ‘not that serious’ and ‘merely inappropriate touching.’ Mosavi said, reading off a paper she wrote prior to the meeting. She later accuses in her statement that the school only did this to “save their reputation.”

Mosavi claims the administration did not refer her to the Walnut Sheriff’s station for help in her investigation. According to Mosavi, the statement on posted on Mt. SAC’s Facebook page — just days after the story was leaked in a YouTube — was a false statement.

Neither Scroggins nor any other board member commented during the public speaking.

Scroggins spoke spoke after the meeting with SAC.Media. He said:

“There was a complaint filed and we did an investigation and we did turn the information for over to the Sheriff’s office for testimony, and they also did an investigation. Neither investigation turned in any factual evidence. We did respond in writing to the complaitent (Mosavi). We did advise her her rights, and offered her assistence, and obviously she’s upset. That’s all I can say since the investigation is confidential.”

Earlier that evening, Maricruz Lopez, BAMN organizer, was handed a restraining order application filed by Chester Brown. The arranged court hearing is on June 16 at 8:30 a.m. at the Superior Court of Califonia in Pomona.

Scroggins said he did not know anything about Brown filing a restraining order application to Lopez.

After the Public Communications segment was over, a paper was handed out to each of the board members, written by part time math professor and math tutoring center lab tech Rene Pyle. She said that under BP 3900 and AP 3900, public safety is allowing the groups (BAMN) bullying tactics to override the decision to act.

“Public safety puts the burden on the young man to do something about the protestors by getting a restraining order,” Pyle said in her written statement. “He is trying, but it seems he has to name each individual. It is impossible to name every single individual that is protesting much less come up with $500 for each one.”

Sayedah Mosavi, Mosavi’s older sister and a former Mt. SAC student, spoke in front of the board of trustees members after Aarefah Mosavi spoke. Sayedah Mosavi said she was also sexually harrassed twice by Chester Brown, once in front of Rene Pyle. “He asked me to take my hijab off, and then asked if I was trying to seduce him. He did so in front of Rene Pyle, and she did nothing.”

Sayedah Mosavi said other women of the Associated Students were harassed by Brown, and told her supervisor that it’s common for women to be harassed in the workplace. She concluded, “My younger sister was raped a semester after I filed my complaint. My complaint was not taken seriously. That would also file under a Title IX violation.

Monica Smith, Mosavi’s lawyer, called the campus “unsafe” and will be known as unsafe as long as Chester Brown is on school property. “You are responsible for the safety of the students on this campus. If you think your careers are going to advance for protecting a rapist? No. We’re going to make this campus known and famous for defending a rapist.”

Angela Dancev, BAMN organizer, told the board of trustees members that all of them should be ashamed of themselves for not taking a right actions to get Brown off campus. “You have made this campus unsafe by allowing him to continue working here, which is absolutely absurd.”

Dancev then directed her speech towards Scroggins. “Bill Scroggins, you have a daughter. Would you like it if your daughter attended a college knowing that the administration who allow rapists to walk freely?”

Hoku Jefferey, BAMN organizer, was the first to speak for his group. He said the Mt. SAC investigation and the Sheriff’s department’s investigation was not a real investigation. “Their investigation drive the women away and tell them that Mt. SAC administration have nothing to do.”

“This is the beginning of a movement,” Jefferey said. “A movement that is doing small but big things; gathering over a thousand signatures for a petition calling for Chester Brown to get off this campus, talking about it in class,talking about it with their friends, spreading his picture so that everyone knows that there is a danger on this campus. That is more than the Mt. SAC administration has done.”

BAMN’s demands include the removal of Chester Brown, for Mt. SAC to stop the alleged cover-up and for Mt. SAC to fire President Bill Scroggins, Director of Equal Employment Opportunity Lorraine Jones and Vice President of Human Resources James Czaja.