Worst Week Ever! Vol. 1

What a week! (I consider it over now because I only have classes Monday-Thursday) Many exciting things have happened this week. However, I would like to focus todays thoughts on who is having the worst week ever. This week the award by far goes to the University of Florida in general and UF professors to be more specific. It was pretty much a land slide victory by Tuesday when word got out of the 2005 CLAS (that is, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) Teacher of the Year Michael Heckenberger, an anthropology professor being arrested for cocaine possesion. Now, cocaine is bad yes but what is worse is that he saw a police car, threw down his bag of cocaine, then proceeded to tell the officer who was arresting him that he was intending to trade said bag of cocaine for sexual favors from a man. TMI, my friend. TMI. It baffles me as to why he would divulge this information, as if it would get him off the hook. I personally still have many more questions on this story but this is all the information I have at the time so I will leave you the newspaper article link if you feel compelled to know more.

http://www.alligator.org/articles/2009/01/20/news/campus/090120_professor.txt

While this story is scandalous, it wasn't it alone that sealed UF's fate as having the worst week ever. However, it was another CLAS professor that got them one step further to this designation. Thank God I am a business student. The Independent Florida Alligator reported this week of the resignation of English professor James Twitchell after an April plagiarism scandal. This man taught English (English!) at the university level for 35 years and was caught taking credit and collecting book royalties for work written by others. This is deplorable, as an English professor of all people should know all the rules of plagiarism better than anyone else. (Just as the Secretay of the Treasury should know all the codes of income taxes forwards and backwards, ahem, Timothy Geithner.)

http://www.alligator.org/articles/2009/01/20/news/campus/090120_professor2.txt

I would also, like to give my award of Best Week Ever to Timothy Geithner, our soon to be U.S. Treasury Secretary for successfully beating his delinquent payroll taxes rap. Now, I understand the U.S. tax code is incredibly complex but shouldn't the person who is to be in charge of the United States treasury be able to pay the appropriate amount of payroll taxes? If he can't do it, then why should I? On a related note, where is my bailout? (Sorry, that was a digression but I have always wanted to say that.) Anyways, after a docile Senate Finance Committee hearing the majority of U.S. senators found that Mr. Geithner's tax deceptions were "innocent ones." I just hope I get that sort of leniency one day.