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Rutgers' McCormick on the hot seat

Ted Sherman and Josh Margolin,"Report says Rutgers failed to properly oversee athletics department," Newark Star-Ledger, 20 November, says a newly released report lays the blame for the out-of-control and still foundering athletic program at the feet of the University's president, historian Richard L. McCormick, and the school's board of governors. McCormick responds to the report here. Arguing that McCormick should resign, Margaret Soltan calls his response to the report"preening" and" cretinous."
Read entire article at Ralph Luker at HNN blog, Cliopatria