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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Loftin has been the public face of the University since he got here - whenever there's a public statement, it's from him.
And when the Email was sent out, it was from the Chancellor's office (again, all University employees rec'd it). But that's simply a delegation of responsibility issue within the University. Loftin is the public statement guy; Wolfe is an administrator. Why would it have made a difference who's friggen inbox the email came from?
Mostly, you pretty much already 'know' whatever it is you want to know. You're as interested in actual dialogue as the fools that essentially shouted Wolfe down when he gave his poorly phrased response to the systematic racism question.
What this pretty much shows is that you have to be a politician at pretty much all executive levels these days. To this point, nobody has given examples of any policies enacted or condoned by Wolfe or the University that would rise to the level of systematic racism. This is nothing more than Wolfe having done a poor job of making a group of pissed off 20 yr olds feel like they've been heard. If Wolfe were a better statesman, this doesn't happen. Frankly, I have no interest in career statesman holding every high-level state office but they'd at least give people like you the warm fuzzies.
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Yes and no. It sure helps to think like a politician, but he still has a job if he wasn't a lazy sack of shit that was hated by the entire university.
The president is a leader on campus, just like the Chancellor. He had enough sway to get some things changed and didn't. He had the misfortune of bowtie not being around too long, so he took more of the brunt.
People hated his guts and were looking for a good cause to get him the **** out. This wasn't the most ironclad thing ever, but it was enough to work so they used it.
He didn't lose his job because a kid called another kid the n word. He truly sucked at his job and they found a good cause to finally boot his ass.
You don't need to be a good politician to be good at your job. Uf you're gonna suck, you better be a damn good politician.