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The Obama Scholarship.

Crow explain­ing away his PR department’s gaffe.

ASU State Press not under­stand­ing that it wasn’t the snub, but rather the way it was han­dled, that was the real issue.

Vir­gil Ren­zulli, who is appar­ently so bad at his job that we never heard a peep from him this entire time. Maybe you should get a job out­side acad­e­mia for a year or two, buddy.

Sharon Keeler, who is so bad at her job that she started this entire thing even after she was warned it would prob­a­bly blow up. While I def­i­nitely dis­agree with what she said, I sup­pose falling on the sword is noble in some way. Still think she should have done it differently.

The fault in the Obama deba­cle lies directly with Sharon Keeler, Vir­gin Ren­zulli and the rest of the PR depart­ment. Not award­ing Obama an hon­orary degree is fine, although debat­able, but the deci­sion to tell the press he wasn’t wor­thy was absolutely ridicu­lous. That’s not what PR depart­ments should be doing and if any of those in power had ever worked out­side of acad­e­mia, they’d know that.

We all know that ASU is look­ing to be a national player and it cer­tainly has the num­bers, but it still lacks the mind­set. Crow has the right vision, but he’s drag­ging along peo­ple that aren’t will­ing or are inca­pable of mak­ing cor­rect deci­sions. Why KeelerRen­zulli still has herhis job is beyond me. Why Ren­zulli hasn’t been heard from is deplorable. Crow should have never had to pick up the phone and KeelerRen­zulli never should have been stu­pid enough to give theallow Keeler to give quote that she did.

Until ASU makes sweep­ing changes to bring in a team wor­thy of the uni­ver­sity that Crow has been promis­ing, none of it can hap­pen. Even the best cap­tain needs a great crew, and the exist­ing one just isn’t up to the task.

Can Crow be trusted to make the nec­es­sary changes to improve the uni­ver­sity? How much could he do with Keeler’s $97k and Renzulli’s $240k per year?

Per­haps it’s time to bring in some­one who knows what they’re doing.

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