October 13, 2000

Reflections of a Gay Athletics Director

By MICHAEL MUSKA

It was just over two years ago that The Chronicle "outed" me. Give the folks there credit for getting the scoop, but I had decidedly mixed feelings about it. A Chronicle reporter had been talking to a former Oberlin College employee and had been told: "Oberlin is so liberal, they just hired a gay male athletic director."

Unaware of what had happened, I was caught by surprise when, days later, the phone started ringing with friends in academe calling to tell me they had just read on The

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