Ex-Ohio State president Karen Holbrook expressed dismay at the amount of rioting at her former employer:

“When you win a game, you riot. When you lose a game, you riot. When spring comes, you riot. African-American Heritage Festival weekend, you riot,” Karen Holbrook said last week during a videotaped interview for the president’s job at Florida Gulf Coast University.

She told officials there that she confronted a culture of rioting when she arrived at Ohio State in 2002 and that she witnessed people doing “disgusting things, unbelievable things” on a videotape she ordered made after the Ohio State-Michigan game that year.

“They think it’s fun to flip cars, to really have absolute drunken orgies. … I don’t want to be at a place that has this kind of culture as a norm,” she said.

It’s important to note she states this as part of a job interview - that you damn well better be up to her standards. She classy, and if your students exhibit even the slightest evidence of boisterousity, she going home.

I’m actually somewhat impressed by the sheer amount of research she must’ve down before accepting the job at Ohio State that somehow allowed her to express surprise and dismay that occasionally Ohio State riots.

And apparently some kids drink in college.

Of course after the remarks became public she pulled back:

“Maybe it was a little melodramatic,” Holbrook said Wednesday. She said she never meant to imply that every Ohio State football game touches off violence.

Wherever would we have gotten the impression that every football game incites a riot?

“When you win a game, you riot. When you lose a game, you riot.”

Oh, right.

# 2007 Aug 31