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Isabel’s morning briefing

Monday, Jul 24, 2023 - Posted by Isabel Miller

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16 Comments
  1. - Oswego Willy - Monday, Jul 24, 23 @ 8:42 am:

    === Northwestern soccer and volleyball players were hazed, too, attorney says===

    The athletic department has a dangerous toxic culture that NU Football made as the flagship program.

    The newly minted AD should be dismissed or should resign and the entire department should start over with one question “What should we, as a department in a university, see as our role in protecting students from hazing?” and that answer should be absolute zero tolerance, with new leadership dedicated to such an obvious charge.

    No parent or family should accept “well, one incident is fine”, as coaches in all sports sit in living rooms telling families how NU is a “family” and NU will take care of their student athlete

    Anything less than a full cleaning house of this athletic department at NU not taking seriously the heinous, toxic culture NU embraced in a department, not just “one” program.


  2. - Friendly Bob Adams - Monday, Jul 24, 23 @ 8:47 am:

    Quite an understatement to call this year’s White Sox an “underachieving” team when nightmare, disaster, train wreck were available.


  3. - Stuck in Celliniland - Monday, Jul 24, 23 @ 9:07 am:

    It is time for the Big Ten to do the right thing and kick out Northwestern from the conference. There is actually a Change.org petition calling for just that:

    https://www.change.org/p/kick-northwestern-out-of-the-big-10


  4. - Rich Miller - Monday, Jul 24, 23 @ 9:20 am:

    ===nightmare, disaster, train wreck===

    They did better when they were tanking.


  5. - Big Dipper - Monday, Jul 24, 23 @ 9:27 am:

    == includes a confidentiality order aimed at preventing dissemination of voters’ personal information beyond the Illinois Conservative Union==

    Yeah, right.


  6. - Oswego Willy - Monday, Jul 24, 23 @ 9:35 am:

    === It is time for the Big Ten to do the right thing and…===

    Yeah, I’m gonna stop you right there.

    The Penn State scandal, arguably far more heinous given the years of looking away done by Paterno and the university never put PSU in line to be kicked out of B1G, let alone giving Penn State the “death penalty”.

    NU’s culture, reminiscent of Baylor as one that immediately comes to mind, will need a massive overhaul of culture, and that needs to be done for NU, let alone B1G

    What you seem to be missing and what that petition fails to grasp too is NU allows B1G to be in the Chicago market as a natural resident, along with USC/UCLA for the LA market, Rutgers for the NY/NJ media market, Maryland for the MD/VA/DC market, and NU leaving… that devalues the B1G media package and the monies NU and each and every school enjoys with the television deal for the conference.

    It’s not even on a radar or possible, even with the horrendously bad deal B1G backed into now by the current Chicago Bears Prez.


  7. - Rich Miller - Monday, Jul 24, 23 @ 9:38 am:

    ===It’s not even on a radar or possible===

    It should be both. And people need to start bringing it up.


  8. - Oswego Willy - Monday, Jul 24, 23 @ 9:50 am:

    === It should be both. And people need to start bringing it up.====

    Ethically, Penn State should’ve been given the death penalty for 3 years, been removed from B1G in all sports for those 3 years, then petition back into B1G after such time these three years passed, as a precursor, the conference agreements, that during commercial breaks of athletic events like basketball and football remind, a conference also allows academic cooperation between aligned universities for research and programs, let alone the monies gained that enrich each member university.

    Penn State saw none of those sanctions.

    Will the NU community in of itself decide the price is too high to be a part of B1G, and the money, and the partnerships? B1G has already shown it’s not moving towards either removing NU or putting NU on a hiatus status in an overall, it’s the ethics that are damaged, the reputation ruined, real victims forever hurt, looking to heal.

    NU, B1G?

    The future, that’s what moving on means, so they want folks to forget it, it’s Chinatown.


  9. - Anon221 - Monday, Jul 24, 23 @ 9:53 am:

    From the Trib article on the CO2 drilling operation- “Running a 24-hour industrial operation near a residence is legal in Montgomery County, where Nokomis is located, because there are no zoning laws or noise ordinances, according to county board Chair Doug Donaldson.”

    Doesn’t Navigator, or their contracted drilling company, need some kind of permit to drill? IDNR or at least the local county public health department? Who is responsible for ensuring that the well is drilled properly and sealed? Navigator has no application for Class VI wells for Montgomery County before USEPA Region 5 (granted this well may not be classified as a Class VI). What would have happened if the rural hydrants were unavailable due to a fire in the neighborhood because of low water pressure. Who authorized the water withdrawals? And, just because the county may not have zoning in place, wouldn’t the Illinois Pollution Control Board noise standards be in effect?


  10. - The Dude Abides - Monday, Jul 24, 23 @ 10:06 am:

    =It should be both. And people need to start bringing it up.=

    The only people who can actually effect such change are those who control the purse strings.

    I don’t like it as much as you do, but it comes down to the real golden rule - those who have the gold, make the rules.


  11. - Henry Francis - Monday, Jul 24, 23 @ 10:37 am:

    Do folks think this sort of behavior is only going on in Evanston?

    I don’t think the other schools in the conference are in any position to punish NU, glass houses and all.

    Not excusing or diminishing it at all.


  12. - H-W - Monday, Jul 24, 23 @ 10:40 am:

    I haven’t mentioned it previously, but I have thought the death penalty would be appropriate. As this is expanding even more, I am more convinced.

    The problem with the death penalty however, is what to do with the athletes? Some are guilty of hazing, some are innocent. But all will be excluded from the athletics programs that brought them to Northwestern, and that is paying for their education.

    A self-imposed death penalty would obviously seek volumes, regarding the university’s commitment to clean house. However, I have little faith in upper administrations killing athletic programs. They do kill academic programs, but not athletics.

    I wonder if the NCAA will take a leading role soon in this investigation.


  13. - Oswego Willy - Monday, Jul 24, 23 @ 10:52 am:

    ===I don’t think the other schools in the conference are in any position to punish NU, glass houses and all.

    Not excusing or diminishing it at all.===

    If you have proof of systemic and heinous hazing and sexualizing such hazing and coaches and athletic departments are covering up, please share that information, not with the university… but with the student newspaper.

    “…glass houses and all.

    Not excusing or diminishing it at all.”

    You literally are making an excuse (glass houses) and diminishing it too, (glass houses).

    Just sayin’


  14. - Henry Francis - Monday, Jul 24, 23 @ 11:23 am:

    Willy - read what I said. I am not excusing what went on in Evanston. I am explaining why “the other schools in the conference are (not) in any position to punish NU.”

    You yourself reach the same conclusion, that the other schools in the conference aren’t going kick NU, only you reached the conclusion by saying there is too much money at stake.

    This isn’t the first time you have misconstrued what I said so you could make yet another post on this site. (I could have begun this email with “(sigh)” - but I find that obnoxious).


  15. - Oswego Willy - Monday, Jul 24, 23 @ 11:28 am:

    ===You yourself reach the same conclusion, that the other schools in the conference aren’t going kick NU, only you reached the conclusion by saying there is too much money at stake.===

    I did, but not under the idea of “glass houses”


  16. - Oswego Willy - Monday, Jul 24, 23 @ 11:29 am:

    ===This isn’t the first time you have misconstrued what I said===

    Please explain other meanings for the term “glass houses” in the context you wrote.


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