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Institutions of higher education can be citadels of extreme incuriosity.<\/p>\n
Three days ago we told the story of a University of Utah swimmer suffering a hypoxic seizure during a breath-control drill in Mexico (if Mexico City, it was at high altitude — something we forgot to mention). The swimmer convulsed in the pool, and after being pulled from the water, broke a tooth falling unconscious. The incident was covered up, and one of the people responsible — the major share of the blame goes to now-fired head coach Greg Winslow — was Charlie King, an assistant. Last year King became head swimming coach at the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse.<\/p>\n
I emailed King for comment. Nothing.<\/p>\n
I emailed Wisconsin – La Crosse athletic director Josh Whitman.Nothing.<\/p>\n
I emailed university chancellor Joe Gow. Bingo! Gow wrote:<\/p>\n
“Sorry, Irv, but because these alleged events occurred at another university I don’t know anything about them.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Not even an “I’ll look into this serious situation,” let alone a “I’m distressed to learn that in our coach’s previous job he worked under an accused sex criminal and is accused in a cover-up of unsafe training methods.”<\/p>\n Thanks, Chance. Remind me not to send my kids to the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Irv Muchnick<\/em> <\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Institutions of higher education can be citadels of extreme incuriosity. Three days ago we told the story of a University of Utah swimmer suffering a hypoxic [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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