U of O Watch mission, in the words of Foucault...

"One knows … that the university and in a general way, all teaching systems, which appear simply to disseminate knowledge, are made to maintain a certain social class in power; and to exclude the instruments of power of another social class. … It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticise the workings of institutions, which appear to be both neutral and independent; to criticise and attack them in such a manner that the political violence which has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them." -- Foucault, debating Chomsky, 1971.

U of O Watch mission, in the words of Socrates...

"An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all." -- Socrates

video of president allan rock at work

video of president allan rock at work

Monday, August 25, 2014

uOttawa's Allan Rock gets another well-deserved thrashing from the Globe & Mail -- Justice gets iced

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/editorials/justice-gets-iced-at-u-ottawa/article20178757/

Globe editorial

Justice gets iced at U Ottawa

The Globe and Mail

This is again about Rock's arguably greatest fiasco to date at uOttawa -- his incredible handling of discrete sexual assault allegations by collectively punishing the entire Gee Gees hockey team.

Unfreakingboleavable that this seemed to Rock like the thing to do, in addition to summarily firing the coach for not immediately giving a report to the president's office.

In the words of the Globe & Mail editorial:

"Mr. Rock’s decision is more inexplicable than ever today. It reeks of injustice."

Not bad for a former minister of justice. How much more damage to the institution's plummeting reputation will the Board allow?
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