Somebody Else Can Pay the Piper: CU's Hoffman Runs from Responsibility

The Denver Post is reporting that University of Colorado President Betsey Hoffman has resigned under pressure. Two major scandals have erupted at CU under Hoffman's leadership, and apparently, a third is on the way.

The first is an on-going battle over the use of sex, drugs and alcohol in recruiting high school prospects for CU's Division I football program rife with allegations of rape and sexual assault. The second scandal revolves around Ward Churchill, an ethnic studies professor who wrote an essay comparing 9/11 victims to Nazi Karl Adolf Eichmann, who sent three million Jews to concentration camps between 1941-45.

Hoffman had no problem standing up for Churchill, ignoring his false academic credentials, or his fraudulent artwork in support of his terrorist supporting comments, but apparently couldn't stomach real diversity from Professor Phil Mitchell, who had the temerity to quote from a respected black conservative, and in another instance, used a book on 19th century text on liberal Protestantism in his history class.

Because of these outrageous practices of including actual versus imagined diversity (far worse than calling victims of the Trade Center attacks "little Eichmann's wouldn't you agree?) Mitchell, one of the top-ranked instructors in the history of his department at CU and 1998 SOAR teacher of the Year, is being fired, or as the radical liberals at CU prefer to call it, "not having his contract renewed."

Hoffman spoke in her in her letter of her "view of principled leadership." Hoffman's principles, if she indeed had any, do not included leadership, only a subservience to radical leftist ideologies. She is grossly incompetent, proving once again that so-called "progressives" are nothing of the sort. It is hardly surprising that Hoffman is running from her mistakes, leaving others to clean it up.

She is, after all, a liberal.

Note: Dr. Mitchell, the fired Teacher of the Year from Colorado, will be on Kevin McCullough's radio show at 3:20 EST(links to audio stream).

Update: The blogosphere seems to be heating up to this one. Wizbang is on this, as is Outside the Beltway, Villainous Company, the Blue State Conservatives, and a whole host of smaller blogs. The "tail"--the vast majority of smaller blogs that make up the bulk of the blogosphere-- seems to be ahead of the larger blogs on this one.