03-14-2022, 08:35 PM
Again, different strokes for different folks. Rice has always been a great supporter of athletics, and, as Provost, insulated the department from Gerhart Casper, who didn’t understand university athletics and couldn’t be bothered to. In fact, many academics are like that. They would look at the athletics director position and say “why?” But Rice isn’t most people, and she might see an appeal that many, if not most, academics wouldn’t. Given where she is in her career, her directorship of the Hoover Institute may be her last position, at least until she goes off into the sunset, becomes emeritus, attends seminars a
and regails graduate students war stories about the White House in the Bush administration.
That being said, although both the athletics department and Eastern Europe are im crisis, even though I don’t always agree with her politically I would rather she devote her considerable mental firepower in helping to think of creative solutions to the s***show in Ukraine, than the one in Arillaga Family Sports Center.
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and regails graduate students war stories about the White House in the Bush administration.
That being said, although both the athletics department and Eastern Europe are im crisis, even though I don’t always agree with her politically I would rather she devote her considerable mental firepower in helping to think of creative solutions to the s***show in Ukraine, than the one in Arillaga Family Sports Center.
BC