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Hey remember when people were claiming that the biggest problem with youth sports was participation trophies and how those would ruin kids by making them too soft and easily contented? gently caress every last one of them and the cover they give for all this poo poo. I hope ESPN and others keep on this story even when it turns around to bite them as well, which it will once it hits traveling teams in revenue sports. There’s a deep, deep sickness here way beyond any one pervert, program, school, or sport.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Do universities typically hire presidents without advanced degrees? There’s a growing trend to hire people as college presidents who are perceived to have been successful in public service or especially in business who do not have more than a BA or sometimes any college degree at all. Often (though not always) these will have grandiose ideas about “disrupting” the university in some way that is highly unworkable, as could be seen by anyone with even the faintest experience of higher-ed administration or even just anything beyond hazy frat-days nostalgia.
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Jan 28, 2018 23:54
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There's been a big series of stuff recently on one particular predator in British youth football, but he's far from the only one over the decades. All these stables have to get cleaned out now and new rules put in place or else everyone who's in hiding waiting for this to blow over is just going to be right back at it in 2 or 3 years' time.
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Feb 18, 2018 00:36
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Hey guess who’s going to foot the bill on all this Go ahead, guess If you guessed “people without money” you are both right and not tremendously naive: https://twitter.com/reclaimuc/status/978737502663081984
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Mar 27, 2018 22:28
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University endowments aren't just a bank account that can be used on whatever, they're a big bundle of smaller investments, most of which have conditions on how they can be spent, sometimes for particular scholarships, or for building drives, or for athletics, etc. Ideally the university draws a little bit off of the interest each year (almost always around 4-5%, unless the economy is just in a shrieking freefall), trying to keep the overall endowment growing slowly while meeting all the funding stipulations. (Increasingly they use that little bit as collateral for loans, or as debt service on those loans, which is bullshit and a big part of why tuition has exploded, but anyway...) Endowments are a huge chunk of college rating systems because in theory they represent the long-term stability of the university. And a big hit to the endowment would represent a real and lasting harm to MSU. But you can't just clear out the coffers and give it all to the victims, most of that stuff is earmarked for completely different areas (including low-income scholarships, research etc.) and the funders would just withdraw their gifts. You could conceivably redirect any gifts earmarked for athletics, but I dunno how that would stand up legally if the donors tried to challenge it. You could also try selling off some university stuff, but since it's public property that would also be open to contest. You could also get the money by doing big pay cuts on all senior admin, and eliminating a variety of redundant management positions. But that's hard and those people have money, so instead they'll balance it on the students and tuition because it's by far the easiest thing to do, and because they know that students will just take out more loans to cover it. So the next generation gets to pay compound interest to cover for these assholes.
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Mar 28, 2018 19:05
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They're probably going to end up killing or severely paring down departments. Usually, thanks to tenure, you can't just get rid of faculty, but there's usually a clause allowing it in the case of fiscal emergencies—so expect the administration to seize this chance to get rid of professors they don't like, especially ones who have regularly called them on their bullshit.
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May 20, 2018 02:47
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Engler is such a belligerently stupid rear end in a top hat. https://twitter.com/brown_e_points/status/998577935543128064
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May 21, 2018 19:20
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So it got worse again https://twitter.com/reporterdavidj/status/1039556738368909314
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Sep 11, 2018 20:00
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AsInHowe posted:Alternatively, don't let universities run their own police departments designed around protecting the school from embarrassment. Yeah, almost any university you could cite, public and private alike, are overwhelmingly more concerned with legal liability than with the wellbeing of their students, and that imperative is enforced by the top trustees all the way down to the bottom bike cops.
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Sep 14, 2018 06:16
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Oh poo poo, I hadn't connected the dots that this is the same Mary Bono who was the widow of Sonny and picked up his congressional seat and did basically nothing a decade in Congress before she got redistricted away from her moderate rich Republican base and immediately lost; a right-leaning friend of mine who had to work with her while she represented his district told me he wouldn't trust her to run a car wash. Other fun facts: after divorces in marriages #2 and 3, she's now on husband #4; also she got suckered in by that Greg Mortenson rear end in a top hat's culty Three Cups of Tea bullshit.
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If you can cope with it, here’s a great article covering a big part of How We Got Here.
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The problem is, start looking back however far you like, and it's hard to escape the conclusion that a primary feature of the vast majority of human institutions is making younger generations available for the sexual predations of older ones. And obviously there's a lot of different hierarchies there that need tearing apart, but it also means they're mutually reinforcing; once one layer is threatened, the other layers start kicking in, sometimes consciously, way more often as just a sort of immediate reactionary kick. If they refused to compete under the American flag or and wouldn't dress out in skimpy stars-and-stripes leotards, there will be plenty of average everyday people that would call them traitors and much else besides and more than a few who would want them executed for treason. And that's even besides the sort of victim-blaming that would make them all continue to relive their abuses over and over again.
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Dec 12, 2018 20:29
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AsInHowe posted:Snyder went to Michigan, so they wouldn't allow that. That was one of Michigan State's biggest criteria the first time - no University of Michigan grads. Good to know they are applying A Standard
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OK, this is probably the better thread for this, leaving it be here unless someone else thinks it needs another thread or location or whatever: Not really sure where to put this but here’s another sports physician molesting hundreds of students while the admins closed their ears and looked the other way. Took him literally jacking off a student during an exam to get things changed, and even then, well: quote:Citing the three student complaints that occured within roughly a year’s time, Ohio State removed Strauss as an on-campus doctor that year. But he was allowed to keep his status as a tenured professor.
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Anals of History posted:It's an absurdly small fine, but I can't imagine that any amount of money put into Betsy Devos' hands is going to wind up anywhere good. Does the fine get paid out of endowment funds or will they finance it through a tuition hike?
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