Not my kind of leadership

Your recent article on the Bloomington Faculty Council Diversity and Affirmative Action Committee’s resolution was certainly flawed – by content and omission.

You may wish to compare your coverage with the Herald Times’s version of the same story, which included more interesting quotes from the dean of the business school. The most impressive aspect of the entire story is that a dean whose salary exceeds $300,000 per annum doesn’t seem to understand the basic mechanics of this campus’ stated non-discrimination policy. One apparently can’t get good help these days.

Whether Pace is a homophobe or a bigot, or just another homophobe bigot who cowers behind Jesus, isn’t an issue. Frankly, his view of my relationship is neither here nor there. His craven indifference to Iraqi suffering, to his ill-outfitted troops, to the vicious lies he supported in prosecution of a war of choice – well, that matters a great deal. Jesus may vomit on me when I die, but I think he’s going to blow his gasket on guys like Pace.

The Kelley School can whistle past the gates of hell all they want – no one will stop them. It’s only when they think they’ll pull the entire University behind them like a honey wagon that they will hear otherwise. No self-respecting gay person really expects the University to support their stated policies – we know better than that!

But we do expect leadership lectures to come from someone who has shown – oh, I don’t know – leadership? And we have a slight expectation that our media will actually cover the whole story.

Mark A. Price
IU almunus