“Mike has undergone some pretty intensive sensitivity training as part of this whole deal and has dealt with, or continues to deal with a lot of those issues. This is not the kind of thing that once the basketball season is over, penance is paid,” Pernetti said. “I’ve had a sports psychologist working 60-to-80 hours with him since the suspension took place. He’s going to be involved in all those communities that he may have or will offend on the going-forward basis.”

He’s … troubled. Five minutes with the about-to-be-released DSM-V and you’ll come up with a list of disorders as long as one of Mike’s you-faggot-piece-of-shit tirades. They’ve got him in with a head man 60-80 hours so far and counting.

Who’s paying, by the way? That sounds expensive, and Mike is already real expensive – not only in sheer dollars (Rutgers pays him hundreds and hundreds of thousands each year) but in terms of what tatters of reputation the always shit-besmirched Rutgers (sports at Rutgers is the gift that keeps on giving) has left. Not to mention the lawsuits from parents of the players he’s…

Hey, wait! What about the players? Is Rutgers going to hire psychologists to spend 60-80 hours with traumatized eighteen-year-olds who came to college figuring yeah college… College. Where The Dark Knight drills balls at your head and calls you a fucking cunt.

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UD thanks Phil.

… released from custody.

Well, you’d expect a column called OutSports to get a bit miffed at Rutgers University’s psycho homophobe coach (watch this for scenes from the groves of contemporary academe). No one else seems to mind: The guy was suspended for three games and is now firmly back in his role as coach/mentor to teenagers.

A student of sadistic university coaches, UD finds Mike Rice’s technique intriguing, if a bit retrogressive. Unlike trailblazing Bobby Knight, he doesn’t throw chairs at his players; nor does he seem drawn to locking concussed students in sheds… Like Tommy Tuberville, Rice is a traditionalist, employing a mix of direct physical violence and verbal savagery.

Rice replace[d] Fred Hill, Jr. who resigned … following a lengthy separation process in the wake of a profanity-laced tirade at a university baseball game on April 1.

Hill had to resign, I guess, because he forgot to throw punches while calling his players cunts. Technique is everything.

Even so, Rice had better watch it. Somewhere out there is an ambitious basketball coach able to call his players cunts, punch their faces, and throw furniture.

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A basketball coach named Mike Rice
Treats his players not terribly nice.
“When their feet start to drag
They get punched and called fag.
Assault in defense of the game is no vice.”

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Update:

The airing of a videotape of Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice using gay slurs, shoving and grabbing his players and throwing balls at them in practice over the past three seasons has the university’s athletic director reconsidering his decision not to fire the coach.

Oh, come on! It was only his first two-year-long offense!

… has gone under.

Hestia Publishers and Booksellers,
known as the Gallimard of Greece,
published the Greek translation
of Don DeLillo’s White Noise

along with many other
great modern novels in
translation. It has
not been able to survive
the Greek economic fiasco.

Brown – Nothing To See Here! – University.

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UD thanks Roy.

… gather ye assortative rosebuds while ye may controversy is here, at Inside Higher Education.

The Paterno zealots now begin the process of removing impurities from the state. As in Poland after communism, so in Happy Valley, those trustees who voted to fire JoePa are the object of a campaign to remove them from the board.

Big-time athletics always lifts the tone on campus. Northern Kentucky University students are currently focused on just what Athletic Director Scott Eaton did to make him hightail it out of town. The school will only say he’s been fired for ethics violations — and, I mean, fired immediately, with letters and lawyers and all…

So, as the student editorial I quote in my title suggests, it might be nice to know what’s going on, what manner of man the school hired and paid big bucks to not long ago. It goes without saying that a big part of Eaton’s job has involved lecturing students on morality… Leadership, teamwork, integrity, you know the drill.

So what’s up?

UD has covered stories of coach and AD miscreants for years, and she will share with you her guess on this one.

UD‘s gonna go with sex. She’s willing to throw some alcohol abuse into the mix, but she’s basically going to call this one as messing with the undergrads. The school claims it’s not financial; it also claims NKU won’t get in trouble with NCAA sanctions as a result of whatever Eaton did. That would seem to leave hanky-panky.

The nanny state once again tries to interfere with the free market – the Secretary of Education thinks there’s something wrong with both rogue and non-rogue big-time university sports programs. American public universities shouldn’t use mucho tax money to make Tubby Smith (soon, it’s rumored, to take his winning ways to Texas Tech!) rich as all get-out. Rick Pitino shouldn’t make $20,500 a day. And so forth.

It’s the exact same thing with so-called ‘insider trading,’ not to mention giving for-profit colleges a hard time. Government is the problem.

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UD thanks JND.

… gets more front-page New York Times publicity today.

… FBI agents showed a former trader a sheet of paper with headshots of his former colleagues, with Mr. Cohen at the center. The agents compared the SAC founder to an organized crime boss who sat atop a corrupt organization.

He’s watching his dunce-nemesis, Alaska Rep. Don Young, twist slowly in the wind after having made his contribution to the Republican party’s effort to rebrand itself.

Of course Young has not apologized. Why should he apologize? Wetbacks is what they’re called.

UD definitely believes, along with Roman Hruska, that mediocrity has a right to representation in our government. She’s less sure about people like Don Young.

SAC’s Steinberg Arrested as Probe Gets Closer to Cohen

Of course, if you ask UD, it’s disgusting enough that Brown University, with its talk of doing good for the world, has among its trustees someone who can’t think of anything better to do with $155 million than buy a Picasso with it. What a role model for the students.

An intellectual model too. His situation prompts the following logic challenge:

“There is something counterintuitive and incongruous about settling for six hundred million dollars if [Cohen’s firm] truly did nothing wrong,” the judge said.

… the head of the system’s ethics committee has resigned due to massive plagiarism.

As with most plagiarism cases, Jane Goodall’s plagiarism, and – see this post’s quotation – sloppiness, is far worse than initially thought.

Jonathan Hart’s done done it but someone done told on him.

Jonathan Hart was appointed professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Alberta in 2004. In 2011, he was also appointed professor of English studies at Durham University. Neither was a part-time position, and it appears that neither institution knew about Professor Hart’s dual roles until the facts came to light at the end of last year.

A spokeswoman for Durham confirmed that it no longer employed Professor Hart but declined to comment further on an “individual staffing matter”.

A spokeswoman for Alberta said the institution had “become aware” of the fact that Professor Hart had also taken a position at Durham and was “looking into” the matter.

How’d he do it?

You know.

Teach one class a week… Semester off here, semester off there… Get a bunch of guest lecturers and TAs to teach your courses… Get a bunch of independent studies and handle them mainly online… Get only tiny grad courses and cancel class sessions left and right…

His next publication:

Jonathan Hart, “Toward a Definition of the Doppelganger.”

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So – a few more words on this. Here’s a hiring notice from Durham (Scroll down to #5.) So he’s been at it since September 2011. Bravo! The only thing vaguely comparable UD can remember is that gorgeous jet-setting pair, Jacko and Sainfort, late of both Georgia Tech and the University of Minnesota. Hart kept the scam going for two years; J&S were discovered more quickly, but then Minnesota in its dithery nice Minnesota way held on to them for another five years.

Here’s a little bad news for Jonathan Hart, above and beyond the notoriety he’s now enjoying: Georgia Tech went after J&S in the courts bigtime. Georgia Tech was not amused. We are talking mucho reimbursement plus a felony charge.