Churchill cost Someone - Not Himself Yet

Well the Ward Churchill issue cost somebody -- maybe not the right person or maybe one of the right people; nonetheless, the primary person [Mr. Churchill] appears to be staying which is a big hit against the university [IMO].

The president of the University of Colorado submitted her resignation today amid allegations that the school's athletic department had used sex and alcohol as recruiting tools for its football program.

Elizabeth Hoffman, the president, told the university's board of regents this morning that she is stepping down effective June 30.

"It has become clear to me that, amid the serious matters the University of Colorado now confronts, my role as the leader of the university has become an issue," she wrote in a letter to the board. "It appears to me it is in the university's best interest that I remove the issue of my future from the debate so that nothing inhibits C.U.'s ability to successfully create the bright future it so deserves."

Ms. Hoffman has headed the state's largest public university system for five years. Her resignation comes as the university grapples with the issue of the athletic scandal and also as it awaits the results of a special chancellor's investigation to determine what action to take, if any, against a professor who referred to the victims of the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11 as "little Eichmanns." [Read the story here]