Well all UD can say is that if your outfit’s always throwing around words like honor – and hey phrases like sacred honor – you deserve everything you get when you recruit shits to win football games.
UD has often said on this blog that she has no serious problem with honestly scummy schools like Clemson and Auburn which like monks who throughout their day repeat All for Jesus are forthcoming about being All For Sports. She’ll cover them on this blog because they’re good for a laugh, but she won’t give them a hard time. They’re not like Chapel Hill or Penn State. They don’t insist that they are real universities. They’re good ol’ boys. They’re trying to be bad. Their drunken tailgates are charming.
Nor do they, like the Air Force Academy – for which, in pretty much its entirety, you and I pay – natter on about their crispy ironed integrity and insist that we view their rows of bright behatted faces with unmitigated admiration. UD dislikes hypocrisy, and recent reports (UD thanks John, a reader, for alerting her to the story) confirm that the Air Force Academy has been very naughty along those lines.
Let’s start with academic honor, academic integrity, sacred academic honor and integrity, shall we?
[A]thletes cheated on tests, and in one instance, an economics professor created a special course for two basketball players – and taught it around their game and practice schedules.
Athletes cheating en masse is nothing – totally routine – but look at that thing about the special course. Julius Nyang’oro fans are going to want to keep an eye on that as details emerge. Read the article in the Gazette for damning enough details; but wait, because there will be more.
And yeah the rapes and the drugs, the whole shebang, at our most sacred honorable tax funded university…
The new superintendent “pulled coaches aside for a recent meeting and told them continued ethical lapses would send the school down the path to ‘Penn State,'” but she’s just a girl. Her All for Football jock predecessor, Mike Gould
ran the academy for three years before passing command to [Michelle] Johnson in 2013. The former academy football star required his staff to provide weekly updates on efforts to instill what he called “fanatical institutional pride” in cadets.
He ended most emails with “Go Falcons!” Johnson ends her emails with “Respectfully.”
See what I mean? Just a girl. No Falcon fanaticism at all. She needs to watch this.
Gould had everybody on campus cheering for the sports teams, including professors.
Former academy economics professor David Mullin remembered one meeting of the academic staff. “They had half the auditorium shout ‘Knowledge!'” he said. “The other half of the room shouted ‘Power!'”
********************
The new girl superintendent needs to watch this: POWER.
********************
UD figures that, professorial self-respect-wise, right behind mandated spot checks of Chapel Hill faculty to make sure they’re meeting their classes (a gift from fake-classes Nyang’oro that keeps on giving) would be academic meetings in which university-provided cheerleaders make you shout out KNOWLEDGE and POWER.
August 4th, 2014 at 11:59AM
Wow! Lots of interesting stuff here!
Air Farce routinely stomps my Army team. I’d love to think that it’s only because they are cheating and we aren’t. (I think Navy cheats, too, but it’s quite possible I’m a bit biased here).
I can’t get too worked up about PowerPoint slides that make fun of people, though. Free speech, and all that.
As one who graduated from the military academy when the Corps of Cadets was all male, I might note that there were at least a few of us Neanderthals who predicted the sorts of serious misbehaviors that have occurred. How is it that the generals couldn’t see it coming?
August 5th, 2014 at 6:23PM
As much has I hate the possibility of fake classes, I like the idea of special class times to accommodate athletes’ schedules. If the NCAA and schools want to continue to argue that a Division I athlete is a student, give the “student” the ability to actually attend classes. Basketball is the worst as the season is during both semesters. How is a student basketball player supposed to succeed academically if they miss 2-3 class days a week, 4 or 5 times a semester, due to travel for away games? I would prefer the student athlete farce end for Division I basketball and football and see the programs become separate minor league teams that maintain a traditional association with school in name but the athletes are pros. Since that is not going to happen, help the athletes be students by enabling them to attend all the lectures and sections required for their courses.