Iowa State University Hires A Cunt As Provost

From the Iowa State Daily:

Recently named executive vice president and provost Elizabeth Hoffman's previous experience at Iowa State is being considered by some to be more pertinent than her time as president at the University of Colorado.

Hoffman, 59, dealt with controversies at both positions - from debate surrounding the naming of Iowa State's Catt Hall to accusations of recruiting sex scandals and rape surrounding Colorado's football team that led to her resignation as president from Colorado in 2005.

From Wikipedia:

In 2004, University of Colorado president Elizabeth Hoffman fanned the flames of a football rape case when, during a deposition, she was asked if she thought "cunt" was a "filthy and vile" word. She replied that it was a "swear word" but had "actually heard it used as a term of endearment." A spokesperson later clarified that Hoffman meant the word had polite meanings in its original use centuries ago. In the rape case, a CU football player had allegedly called female player Katie Hnida a "fucking lovely cunt".

The cunt was also the same person who couldn't fire "professor" Ward Churchill:

The review of Churchill's scholarship and whether or not the university has grounds to fire the tenured professor was instigated after Churchill's essay about the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks came to light. In his controversial essay, Churchill compared the victims to "little Eichmanns," referring to Nazi bureaucrat Adolf Eichmann, who helped carry out the Holocaust. The professor argued that those who worked at the World Trade Centers were not innocent victims but were actively participating in an unfair American economic system that provoked the terrorist attacks.

And this is from the Des Moines Register:

Hoffman was selected after a nationwide search by an 18-member ISU committee led by Tahira Hira, executive assistant to the president and professor of consumer economics.

Of all the people who applied for this job, surely there was a better-qualified and less scandal-ridden cunt than this cunt. I guess it takes a bunch of little Eichmanns at ISU to hire a cunt.

I mean all that as a term of endearment.



Update: This post really takes the cake when it comes to being insightfully vulgar.