Delusional University of North Carolina kicks out the only truth-teller on campus. Big sigh of relief from the president on down. Who cares if the A section of the New York Times notes how
In April 2013, [Mary Willingham] received an integrity award from the Drake Group, which advocates for reform in college athletics. Two months later, she received her first negative performance review and was relocated to a basement office where she was given primarily clerical duties.
Big deal. Liberal media elites. If they understood the money at stake in our sports program, they’d shut their trap. When it becomes too expensive to continue to be a university, you shut down, hire Julius Nyang’oro, and fire Mary Willingham. Simple calculation, apparently over the heads of the folks at the New York Times.
As for Willingham’s desire (see this post’s title) that professors take back their universities… Well, I’ll just refer you – yet again – to this.
May 12th, 2014 at 9:16AM
I read that Willingham went to UNC’s general counsel. Yeah, buddy. I’d had a photo taken at a university to accompany an article I’d written. I needed a copyright permission. The university’s director of media appeared to not know the difference between a copyright permission and a credit line below a photo. She was paid $73,000 a year, possibly the equivalent of around $110,000 in D. C. or NYC.
Angered, she referred me to the university’s general counsel, who likewise appeared to not know, but wanted to know what I’d written, would I leave a copy, and we’ll see.
My bullshit detector went off, I got the hell out of Dodge, and I went to a local photo pro who retook the photos, and faxed the boiler-plate copyright permission.