LANSING, Mich. — The second day of William Strampel's trial has wrapped up.
The second witness, Alicia Flores, was on the stand first.
Flores started by telling the court of her dealings with Strampel.
She met with him on two different occasions in 2017, the first time being in July and the second time being in September.
She says she met with Strampel to discuss her practice exam of the Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Self Assessment Examination (COMSAE).
Flores had taken the test twice and did not pass. Before meeting with Strampel, she had gone through other appealing processes.
She told the court that she was nervous on the morning of her first meeting with Strampel. She had brought folders with practice exams showing her scores.
She told the court that when she entered the conference room where her meeting with Strampel would take place, there was one dimly lit light on and she sat on the opposite side of him.
Flores said that she explained her situation to Strampel for about five minutes when he told her "if I did it for you, I'd have to do it for everyone else."
She said Strampel then told her "it's funny, your face reminds me of a girl that got a DUI, I had to reprimand her."
In the story that they are referring to, the student asked how she got away with it and the student replied " I gave the dean a blowjob." This was repeated by Flores on the stand when she was asked about this story.
Flores said Strampel then asked her what she thought about that. She said she told him she wasn't sure what that had to do with her meeting with him and her appeal.
She said Strampel then told her, "you'd be surprised what people would do in stressful situations." Flores said she responded to him by saying, "yeah, if you don't have morals."
Flores told the court - "I'm talking about blowjobs with my dean, it was uncomfortable."
She said she told Strampel that she wanted to be a surgeon and Strampel told her she would have to deal with a lot of arrogant men.
Flores said Strampel asked her if her mentor told her about a time in which Strampel said the mentor was in surgery holding a protractor for five hours while men stared down her top and commented on her bra size.
Flores said this made her uncomfortable. She said the meeting lasted about an hour and that Strampel offered to walk her out and handed her a business card with his number on the back.
After the meeting, Flores said she called her family, talking to her dad and sister. She told the court she was crying. She also told the court that she talked to her mentor who did not encourage her to file a Title IX Complaint.
Flores told the court she met with Strampel for the second time in September of 2017. She said she took her dad to the meeting. She told the court her father stood by the door and told the court the meeting went fine.
At the meeting, Flores said that Strampel told her she should start 'clinicals' if she signed the contract. She told him, "I would be stupid to sign the contract."
Flores said she wanted to bring the contract to a lawyer but she said she signed the contract anyway a week after her second meeting with Strampel.
"I was confident that I passed my exam," Flores said. "Sitting out a year, it hurts you."
Defense also questioned Flores to which she confirmed the same details of what she told prosecutors.
In regards to the contract the she ended up signing, she told defense that her parents advised her not to sign it.
"I signed my life away, thank God [I passed]."
Flores told the court she has not spoken to Strampel since the papers were signed.
The court called Flores' father Paul to the witness stand next.
Paul told the court he knew about the first meeting his daughter had with Strampel because his daughter called him about it. He described his daughter on the phone as "angry, nervous, and upset."
On the way to the second meeting, Paul asked his daughter to tell him again about her first meeting with Strampel. He said he better understood what happened after that.
Paul also told the court that he and his wife advised their daughter not to sign the contract proposed by Strampel. He told the court he has still not seen that contract.
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After a 15-minute recess, the court called Elizabeth Petsche to the stand. Petsche helped Flores in her appeal.
Petsche worked at MSU's College of Medicine and was hired by Strampel.
She was employed June through September of 2017, the time span during which Flores visited Strampel.
Petsche told the court that Strampel wasn't the last step in the appeals process, but she said it was rare that his decisions were appealed.
In regards to Flores' meeting with Strampel, Petsche said that she wasn't surprised about what happened.
In regards to the conversation had in the first meeting with Strampel, Petsche told the court she was not under the impression that Strampel was asking Flores for a sexual favor during the first meeting. She said otherwise she would have filed a Title IX Complaint.
Petsche also said she hadn't heard of complaints against Strampel like the one Flores made to her.
When Petsche was asked about whether or not she remembered Flores talking about the DUI story, she said she didn't.
Petsche then told the court it would have shocked her to hear something like that.
The next witness was then called to the stand.
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Like Flores and Jackson, the next witness, Khadije Saad, also met with Strampel regarding an appeal. She said she was having academic difficulty in her second semester of her first year in January of 2016.
She said she was facing difficulties at home as well, that the MSU was aware of, that led her to have troubles with her academics.
Saad said she failed her pharmacology exam. She said she also took a retest exam, but failed that one as well.
Saad said the school then asked her to take of a year off of school. She said she didn't want to do that because she was worried she would have to return to her personal situation at home so she said she wanted to appeal to the school to allow her to continue.
She told the court that the school asked her to sit out for a year, and then at the end of the year the school told her she would meet with COSE, the board, to ask to continue in school.
"But, I wanted to continue anyway, they said the only way to do that is to speak with the dean himself," Saad said.
She said she met with him in January 2016. She told the court she met with Strampel around three or four times.
Saad told the court she explained her situation to Strampel. She said she told him that if she was able to continue her studies she thought she would do well.
She said Strampel told her that a lot of students say that, and that their parents sometimes tell them that they can do things that they can't do.
Saad told the court that Strampel told her about the Dean's Contract and that she could sign that and continue her studies if she was confident enough that she wouldn't fail another course.
Saad said he told her that if she failed another course over the span of her time in medical school, that that would be the end of her medical career.
She told the court the contract was emailed to her later on.
She agreed to sign the contract after her first meeting. She said she continued on with her studies and was doing well until the summer between her first and second year.
She said she was in a dermatology course where she had to take a group exam at the end of the class. She said you had to get 75% on that exam to pass and that her group missed passing that exam by one question.
She said her professor contacted the group and told them they could write an extra credit paper to allow them to continue with their studies. Saad said her group mates were allowed to do that, but she said she was not due to the contract she signed.
She said she then got an email from the school stating she was dismissed from the college.
She contacted the school for an appeal and said they told her to to contact Strampel.
Saad had a second meeting with him in July of 2016.
She met with him in his office and said she explained the situation with the test and that she was being given an opportunity to write a paper.
She said Strampel told her, "No you failed. You failed like I said you would fail, and here we are again."
Saad said she then showed him the email she got from her professor regarding the paper that she and her group mates could write and told him she had not failed a course up until this point, and that she didn't break the conditions of the contract.
She said she told him it was only because of the contract that she wasn't being allowed to write the paper to continue on in school.
Saad said Strampel was very frustrated and angry with her, calling her a failure.
She said he then told her that the school was after his job and helping students like her was not in his best interest, and that his career would be at stake if he helped her.
She said after talking about it for a while he told her, "If I help you, then that means I own you."
She said he told her "if I ever need something from you in the future, you'll have to help me, like for the rest of your career, not just your medical career."
The witness also said that at a meeting she had with Strampel, he wasn't looking her in the face and that he was drifting his eyes toward her chest.
She told the court she didn't say anything to him about it.
"I didn't want to accuse him of something that I would regret," witness said.
Saad then added Strampel told her that he didn't want to see her until graduation.
When asked by the court if Strampel ever put any demands on her outside of academics, she said he did not.
Due to the length of the last witness' testimony, court was dismissed early.
The trial will continue on Monday, at Ingham County Circuit Court at 8:30 AM.
Strampel is the former Dean of Osteopathic Medicine at Michigan State University charged with sexual assault and misconduct in office. He was also Larry Nassar's former boss.
Hundreds of girls and women have said Nassar molested them when he was a physician.
Critics say Strampel failed to ensure that Nassar was following patient restrictions ordered in 2014.
The state originally charged Strampel with a misdemeanor charge of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct. However in April, the Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Joyce Draganchuk agreed with prosecutors and allowed them to add a count of second-degree criminal sexual conduct against Strampel.
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