It must be time for me to post an entry in which I talk about topics in the news that can be used to quickly test crisis plans during cabinet meetings, because in the past three days I've receive a couple of emails pointing out some perfect examples of "what where they thinking?"
- Did you hear about the priest who is accused of selling cocaine out of his office in the Catholic student center at the University of Illinois? No, unfortunately, that's not the beginning of a joke. Rev. Christopher Layden faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted of all charges.
- East Stroudsburg University's chief fundraiser is charged with using "scholarships, gifts and other financial offers" to "several former and current students who claim they were victimized." Five current and former male students say the gifts "came attached to unwelcomed touching and other physical contact." In addition to the investigation into the alleged misconduct, additional investigators are performing "[a}n analysis of the federal forms filed over the past decade reveals inconsistent payouts of endowed scholarships." Each of these situations can be used as a crisis plan run-through, with both together serving as a great table-top drill.
- Inside Higher Ed reports that students at Clarion University of Pennsylvania held a protest against "a new ban on smoking anywhere on state-owned college or university campuses.... When university officials handed these students yellow cards warning them of possible fines, some students put tobacco on the cards, rolled them up, and smoked them, too." Okay, I have been on my best behavior because the previous two situations are very serious. This one, though, made me laugh. First of all, yellow cards? Is there going to be a penalty kick? And, let's hope the administration used natural yellow paper, or the carcinogens and chemical compounds in the paper when smoked might be higher than in the tobacco!
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