Would MU have gotten another Toledo football coach, to replace Pinkel?
Maybe, but something else was occurring at MU.
And ISU - also in search of a new head coach - may have become the timely beneficiary, this time.
(time will tell more, over time )
Related:
What is happening at some college campuses?
What is not happening, at some college campuses?
How about what is happening at other community gathering spaces, or the work place water coolers?
Looking into it - a bit deeper than what someone usually sees, due to their otherwise busy days -
there is an opportunity to learn, and to genuinely work to become the best-version-of-ourselves (as Matthew Kelly says).
Just in case someone(s) have overlooked connecting the dots,
or
has not made useful sense of out of the interrelated events, over time.
Here is some related information,
plus,
how another University, Purdue - with gold and black school colors - addressed similar issues - in the following link.
(and unsaid, how another University, UI - with gold and black school colors - is busy chastising its new President....a President that is not of the culturally misgrown Academic / faculty type ... )
When there is a will, there is a way,
to do better.
Sometimes losing a game - provides the humility and the motivation for learning the best of lesson(s), over time.
Sometimes winning a game - provides a false sense of security, or arrogance, to the ego.
Yet, it is Very worthwhile to work towards successes - especially IF it is also helping others to succeed in life's journey and If we are genuinely helping to make this - our surroundings, wherever they may be - a better place than how we found it.
Matthew 10:22
Psalm 23
James 2:22
John 3:16
2nd Corinthians 7:14
Here is a link to the article:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/time_to_take_back_state_u.html
Here is some text from the article:
What happened at the University of Missouri last fall could have happened at any major state university save perhaps one: Purdue. (former ISU President Martin Jischke was President there for awhile too) In that the writer lives in Missouri (and have a wife on the MU faculty) and in that I got my Ph.D. from Purdue, the writer of the article had a front row seat to this entirely predictable saga.
In fact, the meltdown commenced many moons ago. For the record, 1968 was the year the university's liberal phase ended, and its progressive phase began (is there a difference?). With its official blessing of the Legion of Black Collegians (LBC) – created ostensibly to give "black students a voice" – the university abandoned integration, for re-segregation.
Go figure.
At MU, "diversity" trumps scholarship, and there is no more impressive testament to the same than the rise (and fall) of 53-year-old Youssif Omar. Last year, the university approved his Ph.D. dissertation and named him managing editor of Artifacts: A Journal of Undergraduate Writing.
One problem, alas, is that Omar cannot write.
His is the only dissertation I know of – "Perceptions of Selected Libyan English as a Foreign Language Teachers Regarding Teaching of English in Libya" – whose very title demands a "sic."
That is the mode of operandi of 'fairness', 'political incorrectness'.... it accepts / promotes double standards, via threats... alias...it is UNEQUAL. Not good.
( i.e. the opposite of the balanced scales of justice that has equal justice for all )
In the one confirmed incident, a drunken white student made a "hurtful" remark to members of the aforementioned Legion of Black Collegians. At the time, the LBC was practicing for its own homecoming ceremony. Did it not occur to anyone at MU that there was something fundamentally wrong about a separate homecoming for black students?
To protest white privilege on campus, grad student Jonathan Butler went on a hunger strike. Butler, whose father made $8.4 million last year as a marketing exec, made the laughable claim to CNN, "I felt unsafe since the moment I stepped on this campus." Coming off a four-game losing streak, the football team may have felt unsafe about continuing to play in the SEC and joined the protest.
This was crunch time for the Board of Curators. Democratic Governor Jay Nixon had appointed all nine of them. Like Nixon, the seven white curators are attorneys of, it seems, similar backbone. Nixon had shown his at Ferguson. When asked whether the buck stopped with him, Nixon famously replied, "I don't, you know, I'm more, I just will have to say I don't spend a tremendous amount of time personalizing this vis-à-vis me."
To no one's surprise, the curators were busily accepting MU president Tim Wolfe's groveling letter of resignation before he could finish writing it. Nixon quickly approved, calling Wolfe's ouster "a necessary step toward healing and reconciliation on the University of Missouri campus." If Nixon had any idea what Mizzou should be healing from, he did not express it.
Meanwhile, at my alma mater, Purdue University president Mitch Daniels was showing how grown-ups deal with petulant students. He told Purdue protestors he would listen to suggestions but not demands and had no interest in negotiating anything.
Purdue handled its problems, said Daniels, by being "steadfast in preserving academic freedom and individual liberty." He added, "What a proud contrast to the environments that appear to prevail at places like Missouri and Yale."
If Purdue could stand steadfast for freedom, so can your state U.
Some call it having an understanding of law and order - and having the courage to express it and implement openly and equally - and not couch it, kick the can down the road, and not solve a problem with the handy obfuscation tool of political (in)correctness.
Don't support it, a school (or organization), - unless the administration proves it can and will. ( and some have fully shown, that they can not - at this time.)
[but, there is the opportunity to learn and improve...and to become the 'best-version-of-ourself' in the selfless interest of genuinely helping others
- i.e. not pretentiously word smithing, or handing out freebies, or making loads of empty promises to voters and / or fool worthy supporters.]
imho
Maybe, but something else was occurring at MU.
And ISU - also in search of a new head coach - may have become the timely beneficiary, this time.
(time will tell more, over time )
Related:
What is happening at some college campuses?
What is not happening, at some college campuses?
How about what is happening at other community gathering spaces, or the work place water coolers?
Looking into it - a bit deeper than what someone usually sees, due to their otherwise busy days -
there is an opportunity to learn, and to genuinely work to become the best-version-of-ourselves (as Matthew Kelly says).
Just in case someone(s) have overlooked connecting the dots,
or
has not made useful sense of out of the interrelated events, over time.
Here is some related information,
plus,
how another University, Purdue - with gold and black school colors - addressed similar issues - in the following link.
(and unsaid, how another University, UI - with gold and black school colors - is busy chastising its new President....a President that is not of the culturally misgrown Academic / faculty type ... )
When there is a will, there is a way,
to do better.
Sometimes losing a game - provides the humility and the motivation for learning the best of lesson(s), over time.
Sometimes winning a game - provides a false sense of security, or arrogance, to the ego.
Yet, it is Very worthwhile to work towards successes - especially IF it is also helping others to succeed in life's journey and If we are genuinely helping to make this - our surroundings, wherever they may be - a better place than how we found it.
Matthew 10:22
Psalm 23
James 2:22
John 3:16
2nd Corinthians 7:14
Here is a link to the article:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/time_to_take_back_state_u.html
Here is some text from the article:
What happened at the University of Missouri last fall could have happened at any major state university save perhaps one: Purdue. (former ISU President Martin Jischke was President there for awhile too) In that the writer lives in Missouri (and have a wife on the MU faculty) and in that I got my Ph.D. from Purdue, the writer of the article had a front row seat to this entirely predictable saga.
In fact, the meltdown commenced many moons ago. For the record, 1968 was the year the university's liberal phase ended, and its progressive phase began (is there a difference?). With its official blessing of the Legion of Black Collegians (LBC) – created ostensibly to give "black students a voice" – the university abandoned integration, for re-segregation.
Go figure.
At MU, "diversity" trumps scholarship, and there is no more impressive testament to the same than the rise (and fall) of 53-year-old Youssif Omar. Last year, the university approved his Ph.D. dissertation and named him managing editor of Artifacts: A Journal of Undergraduate Writing.
One problem, alas, is that Omar cannot write.
His is the only dissertation I know of – "Perceptions of Selected Libyan English as a Foreign Language Teachers Regarding Teaching of English in Libya" – whose very title demands a "sic."
That is the mode of operandi of 'fairness', 'political incorrectness'.... it accepts / promotes double standards, via threats... alias...it is UNEQUAL. Not good.
( i.e. the opposite of the balanced scales of justice that has equal justice for all )
In the one confirmed incident, a drunken white student made a "hurtful" remark to members of the aforementioned Legion of Black Collegians. At the time, the LBC was practicing for its own homecoming ceremony. Did it not occur to anyone at MU that there was something fundamentally wrong about a separate homecoming for black students?
To protest white privilege on campus, grad student Jonathan Butler went on a hunger strike. Butler, whose father made $8.4 million last year as a marketing exec, made the laughable claim to CNN, "I felt unsafe since the moment I stepped on this campus." Coming off a four-game losing streak, the football team may have felt unsafe about continuing to play in the SEC and joined the protest.
This was crunch time for the Board of Curators. Democratic Governor Jay Nixon had appointed all nine of them. Like Nixon, the seven white curators are attorneys of, it seems, similar backbone. Nixon had shown his at Ferguson. When asked whether the buck stopped with him, Nixon famously replied, "I don't, you know, I'm more, I just will have to say I don't spend a tremendous amount of time personalizing this vis-à-vis me."
To no one's surprise, the curators were busily accepting MU president Tim Wolfe's groveling letter of resignation before he could finish writing it. Nixon quickly approved, calling Wolfe's ouster "a necessary step toward healing and reconciliation on the University of Missouri campus." If Nixon had any idea what Mizzou should be healing from, he did not express it.
Meanwhile, at my alma mater, Purdue University president Mitch Daniels was showing how grown-ups deal with petulant students. He told Purdue protestors he would listen to suggestions but not demands and had no interest in negotiating anything.
Purdue handled its problems, said Daniels, by being "steadfast in preserving academic freedom and individual liberty." He added, "What a proud contrast to the environments that appear to prevail at places like Missouri and Yale."
If Purdue could stand steadfast for freedom, so can your state U.
Some call it having an understanding of law and order - and having the courage to express it and implement openly and equally - and not couch it, kick the can down the road, and not solve a problem with the handy obfuscation tool of political (in)correctness.
Don't support it, a school (or organization), - unless the administration proves it can and will. ( and some have fully shown, that they can not - at this time.)
[but, there is the opportunity to learn and improve...and to become the 'best-version-of-ourself' in the selfless interest of genuinely helping others
- i.e. not pretentiously word smithing, or handing out freebies, or making loads of empty promises to voters and / or fool worthy supporters.]
imho
