A group of MSU faculty has begun circulating a petition demanding an end to the university athletics department’s controversial $9 million partnership with Caesars Sportsbook. This comes shortly after new rules from the American gambling industry’s internal regulatory group which threaten the deal.
The petition was first posted around 10:15 a.m. Tuesday, by 4:30, it had 154 signatures. The vast majority of those signatures came from current and former faculty, with the rest coming mostly from current students and parents.
Community sustainability professor John Kerr, who led petition, said they were inspired to act by the mental health issues they worked to accommodate following the mass shooting on MSU’s campus.
