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Tuesday, February 15, 2005

HEAP BIG TROUBLE

"However, there were some dissenters in the audience who asked [David] Horowitz ... whether he thought the CU football player scandal was more of an embarrassment to the university than Churchill," reports the Denver Post.

The University of Colorado has now stepped into the winner's circle of scandal-plagued universities. It has joined the University of Tennessee system, where people also routinely compare one current scandal's severity to another [See "High-Steppin' Tennessee," UD, 4/10/04].

When a university tries comforting itself with the thought that Scandal X is after all not quite so bad as Scandal Y, it's in heap big trouble.