I live in Columbus, Ohio. I did get here by attending “The Ohio State University.” When you live in Columbus, Ohio, you better get used to hearing about The Ohio State Buckeyes. When they win, everyone is in a fantastic mood, and when they lose we are all sad. To see who won
Picture of Gordon Gee, president of Ohio State University (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
the game, you don’t have to check the scoreboard, just look at everyone’s expressions. When you’re traveling you know you’re heading toward home when people on the plane are wearing Buckeye scarlet and gray garb. I am just as bad as everyone else.
The president of the university, Gordon Gee, has to be a bright man. He actually went to “Brown”, his old Alma Mater to become their president for a while. He must do his job well because they’re paying him millions of dollars to oversee “The Ohio State University.” How many people can make millions of dollars in a year?
His fashion sense isn’t great. He wears a bow tie constantly. That must say something about him. Is he a nonconformist, too lazy to tie a tie, or does he just want attention?
He does have a nasty habit of sticking his foot down his mouth. In December, he said something inappropriate about Catholics. This was directed against the Notre Dame football team. “The fathers are holy on Sunday, and they’re holy hell the rest of the week. You just can’t trust those damn Catholics on a Thursday or a Friday.”
This is supposed to be funny? I don’t find it the least bit amusing. The board is treating his like he’s 12, and requiring him to apologize. I don’t know who he’s going to apologize to? The Pope? They’re also making him attend some kind of class or lecture on how to be more tactful.
Maybe they should teach him about life in the 21st century. Maybe someone should inform him that bullying and making fun of groups of people is not socially appropriate. Maybe in 1945 that would go over, but not it 2013? What kind of role modeling is this behavior. Isn’t he a leader of a lot of students? It sounds a lot like something a bully might say!
This isn’t the first inappropriate thing he has said.
But he’ll stick around, and probably make another mistake in a few months.
The big shots in life just can get away with all kinds of things.
What do you think?
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I was the mental health director in a college for almost ten years. I am pretty unimpressed with college presidents. I graduated from UCSD. I repeat, I am pretty unimpressed with college presidents. They strike me as less successful politicians……I did admire one once, but he was the only one. Kinda sad really when you think they are representing institutions that employ some really brillliant people, and get paid ridiculous amounts of money.
Since you were a mental health director, why do you think he wears a bow tie? I actually kind of thought he was good for the University until I found out he says things like this a lot.