Rutgers, Official Branders of Rascists.

Someone just really needs to take a nap.... OH SNAP!

Rutgers is in the news yet again calling yet another person a racist. Not really sure what the odds were on this one, but I'm guessing pretty damn good.

At the end of a New York Times article Wednesday about William C. Dowling's failed efforts to get Rutgers to turn away from high-stakes athletics, the tenured English professor responded to arguments that athletic scholarships provide opportunity to low-income, minority students.

"If you were giving the scholarship to an intellectually brilliant kid who happens to play a sport, that's fine," Dowling said. "But they give it to a functional illiterate who can't read a cereal box, and then make him spend 50 hours a week on physical skills. That's not opportunity. If you want to give financial help to minorities, go find the ones who are at the library after school."

Now, in the same paragraph, the author does mention "functional illiterate" and "minorities", so I suppose those two things could be connected by the person that is obviously angry over this, but you'd think that Rutgers had had enough attention regarding this type of PR after the whole Don Imus fiasco?

Stupid kids that are great at sports get scholarships all the time, regardless of their race and I think that is what this former English professor is trying to say, so why did the race card get played so quickly?

I really don't know if there is any racially sensitive information about the background of the author being branded here, but the big picture to me is just having Rutgers in the news yet AGAIN for something like this...

Don't they have like sports or things at the school that should be making news instead? I mean, I know they're in New Jersey, which sucks for them and all, but couldn't they be more pro-active about other aspects of their school?