“Every time we think this can’t get any worse, it seems to do so,” CU sociology professor Joanne Belknap said.
When a college coach appears on TV in front of a bunch of law books, you know he’s in trouble. [Photo: CNN.]
Indeed it does for the University of Colorado, whose troubles continue to mount. In addition to the previous Katie Hnida football sexual assault and Ward Churchill scandals (see Slowplay’s “University of Colorado an emerging cesspool“), must now deal with “previously unreported allegations that two female athletic trainers were sexually assaulted by an assistant football coach and that one of them was pressured by CU football players to perform sexual favors for recruits.”
The report, which comes from a leak in the grand jury proceedings, also mentions the use of a “slush fund” created using money from Gary Barnett’s football camp. A state audit has been requested by the CU board of regents to investigate this alleged fund. The fund is allegedly available to a number of people in the athletic department. The Captain of the Titanic herself, CU President Betsy Hoffman, offered the following statement:
“We have repeatedly taken responsibility for the events of the past and, far from avoiding them, we are embracing the changes necessary for a different and better future.”
It seems apparent that the fact that Hoffman had to use the word “repeatedly” in her statement perfectly illustrates the problem. A visit to the CU-Boulder website shows that two of the five “In The News” stories are University responses to scandals.
Things have gotten so bad Slowplay once compared the University to the United Nations.
Nathan Novak at 4:54 pm
