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[inthelab]

Taint your rival:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/books/26poet.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

[bacardiandlime]

And now she's resigned it.

Pretty cackhanded, telling a newspaper about the Walcott allegations (which frankly the press should have been onto anyway), and then denying it.
She should have just owned it, come out and said she didn't think someone with his predilections should be given a university post. I'm surprised that someone with his record (which to any university administrator should just flash LAWSUIT ALERT in neon) got to the final three.

Wonder who they'll pick now. There is to be a new vote, I don't know who will be nominated for that.

[goldenapple]

She emailed two journalists with information about a claim made against Walcott, and her words were: Although Padel denied having any part in the mailings, she admitted that she had e-mailed journalists about Walcott: “Some supporters add that what he does for students can be found in a book called The Lecherous Professor, reporting one of his two recorded cases of sexual harassment and that Obama is rumoured to have turned him down for his inauguration poem because of the sexual record. But I don’t think that’s fair.”

That last sentence is great. "My competitor is often said, by those who have known him over the years, to spend his spare time drowning baskets of kittens and kicking Girl Scouts in the kneecaps. But I don't think that's fair."