Sean: Fire away. You are listed as an author, so you should be able to publish.

“It’s a claim,” said Frohnmayer. “It’s an allegation. It’s a smear and it’s not true.”

“He has no legal basis,” Frohnmayer said. “This has had a complete legal review and people can issue wild allegations all they want, but they have no authority for them. The program has been carefully considered and it is lawful and of issue.”

“Harbaugh’s wild allegations have been a complete waste of time and public money. He should be embarrassed,” Frohnmayer said.

Frohnmayer called the allegations “foolish.”

“Members of the bar that are looking at this are incredulous that (Harbaugh) would even take himself seriously,” he said. “He put a public entity at a lot of expense for nothing.”

Frohnmayer called Harbaugh’s hypothesis “preposterous.”

“It’s a frivolous complaint,” he said. “There’s no connection whatsoever.”

“The accusations were professionally very careless and I think the commission obviously saw right through them and dismissed them in the entirety in both cases,” Frohnmayer said.

I’ll keep you posted when he gets farther into the thesaurus.

Bill H.

Many of the magazines and books that rank colleges have started using diversity in their cursory ranking systems – it’s quick, easy, and quantifiable – and while I think we all agree that exposure to different cultures is valuable, I personally would rather have money spent on … well … me. I’ll broaden my world-view when I’m not going into debt to do it.

So I guessing Frohnmayer’s just taking a stab at the ranking system with hastily drawn programs that sound rather dodgy…
“Frohnmayer responded by reminding Harbaugh the funds are awarded to the faculty’s department, not the individual person.”

However, the fallacy of this is that it will only insinuate the people of color are able to achieve high positions in society ONLY if given special treatment and treated as exceptions.

Personally, I’d rather be recognized for my intellect and credentials rather than my skin color.

If I had to speculate about his motivations, I’d say that he is interested in getting things right, and having a solid plan for the university that will actually help the students and faculty who fall under the “diversity” banner. Morozumi and his ilk think that just hiring more people of a certain skin color or background will mean that students who learn from them and share those characteristics are more successful. That’s ridiculous, and they believe it because it is easy: thinking that way does not require any amount of introspection nor anything like effort or planning. “Hire more minority instructors, then we’ll get more/better minority students!” is amazingly simple, the alternative plan touted by Harbaugh and company requires much more work on the part of the University. It’s no wonder that the Administration resists it.

Steve Morozumi hates me, by the way.