I'm disgusted by the administration at my alma mater' especially its reactionary policies put in place over the last six months.
It is obvious President McDavis and the rest of the administration have no clue as to what is happening on campus. If they did, I'd hope there would have been progressive reforms on campus. It shouldn't take a reporter from the Columbus Dispatch to tip off Ohio University's top official that 17 football players (almost 20 percent of the team, mind you) had been arrested in 2006.
The president of the school should know within 24 hours of each time a student athlete is cuffed by OU or Athens police. He shouldn't find out hours before the 250,000 subscribers to the Dispatch see it splashed across the front page.
Nor should the football coach and athletic director be given the space in the student paper to say they were upset with the way the big
mean Dispatch characterized the program and didn't print their spin. Editors and reporters at The Post should be ashamed for granting the coach and the AD that space, the same shame they should feel for not breaking this and the other recent stories that have garnered national negative press for our campus.
These latest events coupled with everything else that has gone terribly wrong at OU in the past year screams for regime change. I know that neither I nor my family and friends who've graduated from OU plan on donating a single cent to the university until something is done by the trustees to remedy these many problems.' Erik Carlson is a 2004 alumnus who writes from Lexington, Ky. 17
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