[Hawk44]

CU is half of the c-word and a laughing stock across America.

[Benrand]

I'm sure that Ms. Hoffman can find some post-modeernist, critical theory feminist cholars that she has helped put into tenure to back her up.

Isn't "nigga" a term of endearment? Sure it is, ask any post-modernist hip hop scholar.

[ken5050]

OH!.... I thought it was "Conservative"

[boomop1]

What a "C" Doc..

[Khurkris]

and this person is a college President?

I am continually amazed.

[Paul_B]

Where it should lead her is to the unemployment line. I would not send my daughter to a school run by someone who could utter such offensive nonsense. Chaucer, indeed.

[Max Combined]

"University of Colorado President Betsy Hoffman broke down and cried this week"

Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Ev'rybody knows
That Baby's got new clothes
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls.
She takes just like a woman, yes, she does
She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl.

[CMailBag]

Maybe it could be the school mascot. It would be easier to lead around the football field than a buffalo.

[mewzilla]

"That is a vulgar word. She could have just admitted that," Martin said. "To dig in her heels only further tarnishes the reputation of this university."

That's not possible.

[backhoe]

For whatever it's worth, Mrs. B and I agreed, after some lewd discussion, that while a**hole and its variants might possibly be used as an endearment between people who are intimate, that dreaded "C" word was simply too harsh.

And yes, I never cease to be astounded at the foolishness of people who are supposedly better-educated and more enlightened than myself.

[aardvark1]

This made me think of the OJ trial. Now it's a leftist's turn to try to walk the tight rope between the courtroom and reality.

[beyond the sea]

CU is half of the c-word and a laughing stock across America. --

Colorado University Not Thrilled over the Hoffman remarks.

[Allegra]

There's no crying at Unversity of Colorado!

[wunderkind54]

When coach Barnett was being raked over the coals for some remarks taken out of context, Hoffman was loud and proud with her attacks.

Now, however, when scrutiny is turned upon her, the faucets are turned on and we're to feel sympathy.

Give me a break!

[NYCVirago]

"I knew as soon as I said it that it would come out in the papers," Hoffman told the Herald. "I should have said, 'Read Chaucer's The Miller's Tale. "

Yeah, right. I'm sure that's what the football player was referencing in calling Ms. Hnida that term.

[Izzy Dunne]

Suppose she was correct.
WHAY ARE C.U. FOOTBALL P LAYERS USING "TERMS OF ENDEARMENT" TO ONE ANOTHER ?

[guitfiddlist]

Straight out of the feminist handbook. When caught doing or saying something completely wrong, illegal or offensive - start crying to get out of any responsibility for it. Then wipe your tears away, and resume feminist rant about wanting to be considered totally equal regarding all privileges.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I had no idea that CU's football team had so many mideval scholars.

[TankerKC]

"I know the president would never disparage women," Kirk said.

Oh, of course not. What she said was, "That girl is country".

[Savage Beast]

...and this woman is president of the University of Colorado??? Maybe I shouldn't have sent my son there.

Another argument against affirmative action.

(I wonder if she'd consider it a "term of endearment" is somebody called her that?)

BTW, that's one of my most unfavorite words. I won't mention the other contender.

[NewMexLurker]

...
Now, sir, and eft sir, so befell the case,
That on a day this Hendy Nicholas
Fell with this younge wife to rage and play,
the rogue
While that her husband was at Oseney,
As clerkes be full subtle and full quaint.
And privily he caught her by the queint,
And said; "Y-wis, but if I have my will,
For derne love of thee, leman, I spill.
And helde her fast by the haunche bones, my mistress,
...

The spelling has changed over the centuries, but the word in question is "queint". I'm sure this is what the CU football players were referencing.