Lawsuit Accuses the Citadel of Negligence in Handling of Abuse Complaint

December 14, 2011, 11:06 pm

A lawsuit filed on Wednesday accuses the Citadel of gross negligence for failing to report allegations of sexual abuse by a former counselor at a summer camp the military college ran, The Post and Courier, a newspaper in Charleston, S.C., reported. The Citadel conducted its own investigation of the allegations in 2007 but did not report them to law-enforcement authorities. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the mother of a boy who says her son was abused by the former counselor after the Citadel investigated. It seeks unspecified damages and a court order that would require the college to report all sexual-abuse allegations involving children.

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Apropos another article featured in the Chronicle — having to do with significant escalation of college presidents’ compensation relative to their faculties. This article provides a pretty good example of the myriad of things for which college presidents are held publicly and acutely responsible.
Moreover, there’s pretty good evidence that the incidence of such things is increasing over time.
And, as Adam Smith pointed out, the wage goes up with the undesirability of the working conditions.
Bottom line: no one should be surprised by these developments.
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Adam Smith supported social programs. He believed the “invisible hand of god” manifesting itself in the “Market” would lead humankind to a utopia where there would be no longer any poverty. (try actually reading his work!)

Any one with common sense will tell you that the lower the pay the harder the work. Do you actually believe that the job of a college president is harder than that of a worker in a slaughterhouse?

At any rate, I don’t see how anyone could argue that the job of a college president is harder than the job of the president of the US (his pay is $400,000 per year and there are plenty of applicants!) and he sure is”held publicly and acutely responsible” for a “myriad of things” — actually, for most everything.