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The Ballad of the Sad Bowtie

You knew we’d check in on Western Kentucky University again, right? We’ve been following the fortunes of that school ever since Professor Robert Dietel, way back in 2006, excited intense ridicule and hatred from the school’s trustees for warning that going Division I would destroy the school’s finances.

Now ruined, and a laughingstock, WKU does what they all do: It hires a new deer-in-the-headlights president, a guy who looks the part cuz he wears bowties, and they send him out to shut down what’s left of the school’s academic side. Enjoy his picture. Note the deer-in-the-headlights look. And the This is a Real University; I’m a Real President bowtie. The copyright holder on the bowtie thing is sports-whore supreme Gordon Gee.

The trustees insisted that Dietel was an asshole and that classy coaches like Bobby Petrino and an incredibly expensively recruited (but less carefully vetted) football team would make enrollments skyrocket…

That rocket went flaccid and now Bowtie Bambi meets the glare of national news cameras head-on…

Margaret Soltan, February 28, 2018 10:54AM
Posted in: sport

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One Response to “The Ballad of the Sad Bowtie”

  1. charlie Says:

    According to one of the links, WKU is going to eviscerate academics, in part, to fund pensions. This is the same issues facing cities and states, namely, pensions must be paid, even if current services are compromised.

    Imagine the resentment created toward pensioners, and pensions in general, when your department is closed, professors fired, in order to fulfill obligations for those long gone from the institution. It deflects blame from the Wall Street bond palaces and their functionaries who facilitated this mess….

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