Tambini in a place of honor, Loyola has now removed his name from the Outstanding Male Athlete
of the Year award.13
As for the current students and staff, Loyola has taken all appropriate steps to ensure their safety.
Prior to these allegations coming forward, Loyola had already engaged consultants from T&M
Protection Resources, a global security company that provides sexual misconduct consulting
services, to review and revise Loyola’s policies and procedures regarding sexual abuse, sexual assault
and boundary guidelines. The consultants ensured that Loyola’s policies and procedures reflect
current best practices in the prevention and handling of sexual abuse, and the school subsequently
announced them to all students and parents and published them in the student handbook.14
With these strong measures and its exemplary response to the recent allegations, the Loyola
administration has demonstrated both a laudable commitment to transparency and honesty and a
clear recognition that its first and overriding obligation is to do everything within its power to
provide a safe and nurturing environment for all students.
That award became known as The Tambini Award at some point while Tambini was still at Loyola, as a
recognition of his dedication to athletics and the positive influence he had on many of the boys he coached.
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In addition, out of concern for the students at the boys school where Tambini taught after leaving Loyola,
President Oroszlany recently made that school’s administration aware of our findings. Fortunately – and
somewhat predictably, given that the school had no female students – that school had apparently received no
reports of sexual abuse or misconduct by Tambini during his 15 years on its faculty.
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