Today in Missoula History

[Grizbeer]

from 1974

A member of the board of the Montana Commission on Postsecondary Education slammed state spending on intercollegiate athletics.

According to an article in the Missoulian newspaper, William Duke Crowley, who was also a law professor at the University of Montana, said college athletics funding is "swallowing up" state funding, calling the funding a "cesspool."

The comments came at a time when the commission was recommending closing Western Montana College and converting Montana Tech to a two-year college. Crowley said he was looking forward to a time when intercollegiate athletics in Montana were discontinued entirely.

http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/oct/article_90cc04c3-e04b-5823-aa49-9fa684b51ea0.html

Reminds me of 2 weeks ago:

This requires that UM:

1) reject our society’s anti-intellectual trend and anti-humanist spirit (some universities have done it);

2) revamp Humanities curriculum by emphasizing and inter-connecting critical thinking, textual studies, international studies (foreign languages’ importance), and media studies (with a critical dimension).

3) abolish departments’ vertical structure and boundaries (knowledge works horizontally like a rhizome) and replace them with clusters, regrouping departments that are now “land-locked islands”: e.g. a Mediterranean Studies Center with ancient/foreign languages, history, economy, geography, mathematics, political sciences and religion courses, etc.;

4) use part of Business/Intercollegiate Athletics’ financial surplus to support Humanities’ teaching positions and programs.

http://missoulian.com/news/opinion/columnists/um-should-renew-focus-on-humanities/article_4439feae-661e-5a78-b991-f05a57e38485.html

 

[statler & waldorf]

Anybody know where Crowley is buried? Got this sudden need to urinate.

 

[NorthEndZoneDan]

Anybody know where Crowley is buried? Got this sudden need to urinate.

Thats why lawyers hide their dead!

 

[AllWeatherFan]

I was still trying to sort out rhizomes and clusters when I was cold-cocked by Ted Cruz.