Schwartz's Ridiculous Article

Fryowa

Fryowa

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Whether or not it was done on purpose, I agree with Schwartz's article being pulled.

It was poorly-written, grasped at straws (2014 quotes from a psychotherapist?), and inconsistent. He should make sure to write his articles before he gets halfway into a fifth of the Cedar Ridge stuff he wails about on Twitter.
 
I saw it posted on here, but when I clicked it had already been pulled. Can you give a quick summary for those of us who missed it?
 
Fryowa said:
Whether or not it was done on purpose, I agree with Schwartz's article being pulled.

It was poorly-written, grasped at straws (2014 quotes from a psychotherapist?), and inconsistent. He should make sure to write his articles before he gets halfway into a fifth of the Cedar Ridge stuff he wails about on Twitter.
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Sounds like his opinion piece had the desired effect.
 
Like most opinion writers (and regrettably, some reporters these days), he cherry-picks some facts, ignores others, to make his point. That's the game. It's an OPINION piece. You know what the old saying is about Opinions, they're like ________, everyone has one.
 
He'll get a lot of attention for it because it's sufficiently woke and is critical of the University in a political way that a lot of people with an agenda will get behind, but it was nothing but poor reasoning and screeching emotion. It had the tenor of a high school freshman girl who got dumped for Prom and decided to head to teh Intarwebs to capitalize on it.
 
homes said:
Like most opinion writers (and regrettably, some reporters these days), he cherry-picks some facts, ignores others, to make his point. That's the game. It's an OPINION piece. You know what the old saying is about Opinions, they're like ________, everyone has one.
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Perhaps you can explain your opinion on how the piece could have been done differently, more correctly, at least in your opinion. Try to be specific. I didn't see criticism on this thread that did anything other than seem like they didn't like the article because of the stance he took. What do you think was wrong with that stance, if that is the premise for your disagreement with the opinion piece?

And I don't think there is anything wrong with a generic quote from 2014 that is obviously still applicable today.
 
phdsvp said:
He'll get a lot of attention for it because it's sufficiently woke and is critical of the University in a political way that a lot of people with an agenda will get behind, but it was nothing but poor reasoning and screeching emotion. It had the tenor of a high school freshman girl who got dumped for Prom and decided to head to teh Intarwebs to capitalize on it.
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I like Schwartz's columns and will continue to read them but I can tell I won't like this one without even reading it so I will pass on doing so.
 
Thawki said:
Perhaps you can explain your opinion on how the piece could have been done differently, more correctly, at least in your opinion. Try to be specific. I didn't see criticism on this thread that did anything other than seem like they didn't like the article because of the stance he took. What do you think was wrong with that stance, if that is the premise for your disagreement with the opinion piece?

And I don't think there is anything wrong with a generic quote from 2014 that is obviously still applicable today.
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OK, I'll take the bait, but only this one time: I get it. He has a point of view. He has an agenda. He's entitled. However, there is no mention in his OPINION piece about how Meyer was completely insubordinate after the firing of Griesbaum. Doesn't matter the gender, that's inexcusable, and she should have been fired right then. I agree with Gene Taylor on that. Maybe Barta screwed up and didn't fire her then. I would have. No mention that all of her performance reviews were positive and the negatives about her were not documented. Again, a screw up by Barta (or whoever was put in place to handle that). Also, it doesn't matter the gender, those things need to be documented, they weren't. Those were process errors the UI made, that were independent of gender or sexual preferences. He ignores those facts, he doesn't even try to distinguish them. But again, it's his opinion. He's pushing his point of view. Adding trite comments about baking cookies is sophomoric, and ignoring facts diminish the seriousness of the piece. Now, that's MY OPINION.
 
I, too, like many of Schwartz's articles, but on this one he obviously left his testicles at home. Schwartz ignores the many examples of Meyer's incompetence and mismanagement. I would argue that she kept her job as long as she did simply because she is a woman.
 
I guess I wish I'd have paid more attention to the whole deal than I did. Sounds like the school has egg on their face no matter how you cut it. It sounds like those ladies were good at their jobs but aren't the most people friendly. However dealing with people is a big chunk of what their jobs were... Again I don't know enough about the specifics on it all but it all sucks and the school looks terrible.
 
The article summarizes the coaches' testimonies as "Meyer talked down to them." I heard coaches give specific complaints about what they perceived to be inadequate leadership, particularly related to the facility renovation projects.
 
I think this line from the article sums up the whole thing. "Perhaps if Meyer had smiled more and baked everyone cookies she could have kept her job." That's all she had to do for christ's sake and she couldn't even do that right.
 
I wonder what the verdict would have been if Barta documented her insubordination/coaches' complaints in writing and if Gene Taylor was paid the same salary instead of $70k more...
 
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