Ah, once again all good flows from big-time university athletics. Here it’s the University of Montana, some of whose professors wonder why the school has a devastating $8.6 million deficit.
The deficit may have something to do with all the rape in Missoula, some of it apparently committed by football players. When your city is known as the Rape Capital of America, people might be reluctant to spend much time there; and indeed the main reason for UM’s deficit involves a sharp downturn in enrolled students.
The UM professors who signed the opinion piece note a looming event sure to make UM as unattractive to new faculty as it is to new students.
Most recently, the university attempted to put a positive spin on the investigation conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice into how the university handled allegations of sexual assault. The administration claimed it had achieved a great victory by reaching an agreement with this federal agency. A closer look, however, reveals that UM, in a desperate effort to avoid another embarrassment, negotiated a legal settlement that forced it to accept all the recommendations and demands made by the federal government. Among these were a series of mandatory training programs which the administration promised to implement across campus. UM leadership must understand that training of faculty should be limited to procedural matters and cannot be used as a pretext to alter the curriculum, impose ideological positions, and threaten the fundamental academic freedoms of the faculty.
You see, because athletes at the university were sexually abusive, faculty will be forced to take Don’t Rape Your Students training sessions.
As I say, great and manifold is the goodness flowing from big-time university athletics.
June 4th, 2013 at 8:00AM
http://www.newappsblog.com/2013/06/mcginn-leaving-miami-under-a-cloud.html
June 4th, 2013 at 8:16AM
Thanks, dmf! I’m following the story…