… and at the University of Oregon… well… let’s see what it looks like on that ol’ gilded entry at the moment:
The mess in Eugene? The mess in Eugene? What shit’s piling up on that shiny front porch?
And I mean shiny. The University of Nike, with a brand new $78 million football palace complete with slogans like EAT YOUR ENEMIES on every wall! It was all looking so good, so front porchy, and now… Has the University of Oregon crapped its pants?
Well, as is the case at most big-time sports factories (what’s that smell behind the fine old lacebark elms of Chapel Hill?), UO recruits student athletes in a rather cavalier fashion. Among the three basketball players who seem to have gang raped a woman the other night is a player thrown out of his last college because of a suspected rape; but the UO basketball coach called that rape investigation “not of a serious nature” and recruited the guy, and now – heck – he’s part of the purported rape threesome… Career rapist? Well, when the world makes it easy for you…
As always, the job of stating the absolutely precise opposite of the truth goes to this distinguished university’s president:
[T]he university takes allegations of misconduct very seriously.
If that were true, you wouldn’t recruit the people you do. You take allegations of physical prowess seriously.
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UD thanks a reader.
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PS: Couldn’t be better timed, too, what with the federal government looking into sexual assaults on university campuses and all…
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Update: That old front porch again. The New York Times, opening paragraph:
The University of Oregon has come under intense scrutiny this week after three men’s basketball players — including one who transferred from Providence after being accused of sexual assault there — were investigated by the Eugene police in connection with rape allegations by an Oregon student.
May 6th, 2014 at 10:20PM
Context, the U of Oregon has the most expensive bball arena in the U.S., despite what you may think, Phil Knight did not pay for it all, $235 million in public bonds are the debt needed to finance the boondoggle. The two biggest flacks for the Matt Knight Arena, former pres, Dave Frohnmayer and former AD Pat Kilkenny, kept yapping this monstrosity was essential in order to draw the finest hs basketball talent. Well, Oregon has lost eleven bball players, to transfer, or to getting kicked out, in just the last three years, still cannot come up with a top ten recruiting class that justifies Frohmayer/Kilkenny’s bullshit. The arena keeps losing money, the current admins don’t want public dissemination of the actual losses, and the bond service will eventually come from the academic side, meaning even less resources available to undergrads.
May 6th, 2014 at 10:26PM
charlie: Thank you for those details. I didn’t know them, but I am unsurprised.
May 7th, 2014 at 8:00AM
well now we know who the true victim of these university sanctioned sexual assaults is:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/05/07/us/ap-us-penn-state-abuse-paterno.html?hp&_r=0