Posted on 03/16/2005 8:06:49 AM PST by Land_of_Lincoln_John
DENVER (AP) A public relations consultant who helped Indiana University during a seven-month controversy over former basketball coach Bob Knight is now working for the University of Colorado Board of Regents.
Christopher Simpson of Williamsburg, Virginia, will initially be paid 24-thousand dollars, plus 350-dollars an hour for any follow-up work.
Simpson will help the Regents cope with the fallout from a football recruiting scandal, and the controversy surrounding ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill.
Simpson says he hopes to shift the focus of C-U's image away from controversy.
Simpson is a former Washington Times reporter and was vice president of communications at Indiana University from 1994 to 2001.
He might as well work on the Gary Barnett football mess there too.
The only thing that will help CU's image is to fire WC.
Ya can't put lipstick on that particular pig...
and Barnett. His mess has been going on much longer.
Agreed. They are both repugnant.
Barnett sneaked out of Northwestern University while a gambling scandal was unfolding. Two days before he ditched Evanston for Boulder, he sent an e-mail to all his players saying he was NOT leaving Northwestern, and he was going to take the team back to the Rose Bowl.
1. Get the facts straight.
2. Do the right thing and fire anyone who is revealed to have caused the disaster.
3. Use common sense and plain English to tell the legislature and the public why you have done what you've done.
4. Also fire any academics or administrators who stand in the way of CU accomplishing steps 1 - 3.
Problems solved. Where's my consulting fee? Hey, I'm a professional, here.
Congressman Billybob
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If I were a CU alumnus, I would long for the Bill McCartney days.
They have no choice but to fire Churchill. They just have to nail down a foolproof case, based on misrepresentation of credentials, plagiarism, and shoddy scholarship. That shouldn't be hard to do.
Sure the faculty will be offended. Tough. If the president who recently quit had any honor or sense of responsibility to anyone but herself, she would have fired Churchill before she left, and Barnett too. That's what outgoing presidents are for--to take the heat. All three of them should have left together. Then at least she would have had some reputation for taking the heat and doing her job.
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