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Chancellor Loftin getting the axe?

Posted on 10/21/15 at 12:18 pm
Posted by 5thTiger
Member since Nov 2014
7996 posts
Posted on 10/21/15 at 12:18 pm
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I'm being told @UMPrez is holding a Curators mtg in an attempt to fire @bowtieger for his "role" in shutting down PP #moleg @Rep_TRichardson


Tweet from Caleb Jones. Twitter is abuzz with rumors

Any thoughts?
Posted by Mizzou Mule
St. Charles County, Missou-rah
Member since Sep 2014
3076 posts
Posted on 10/21/15 at 12:22 pm to
Frickin' lib-tards! Putting human body parts in a freezer after killing is okay with PP, but it's murder when Jeffery Dahmer does it. If they were puppy or kitty parts, lib-tards would totally lose it.

Losing Loftin would be a major blow to all Mizzou Athletics, IMHO.
This post was edited on 10/21/15 at 12:52 pm
Posted by everytrueson
Los Angeles, CA
Member since Mar 2012
5907 posts
Posted on 10/21/15 at 1:48 pm to
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Any thoughts?



Derp
Posted by Mizzou Fan in Da ATX
Member since Dec 2011
4184 posts
Posted on 10/21/15 at 5:07 pm to
The planned parenthood thing seems like a sideshow to me. Maybe a way for Wolfe to give himself political cover with Jay Nixon for this move since Wolfe doesn't supposedly have a very good relationship with Nixon, but I don't think it would really be why Loftin is getting the axe.

The drama over the hiring then firing of the Medical School dean within the past 11 months seems to be the real fire starter here to me. I heard as far back as the UConn game some talk of a "vote of no confidence" being taken in the Chancellor over his perceived "meddling" with the medical school and other institutions like the business school.

Loftin's goal and directive was to try to secure Mizzou's AAU status which has been tenuous for years, and you do that at the med school level by pressing for more research, less clinical. He got rid of some vice chancellor position who was the liaison between the med school and the UM Hospital and he asked the new med school dean to also assume the responsibilities of that vacated position. The med school dean didn't want to, and then suddenly he was forced out. It ticked a lot of the academicians off.

Wolfe is also supposed to be really close with the head of the Mizzou hospital. I don't know what the hospital thought of Loftin's maneuvering but my guess is they didn't like it either.

Bottom line I think if this happens it was probably an academic version of how things went down with Steve Patterson getting forced out as the AD at Texas. Outsider comes in with lots of proposed changes to increase efficiencies, but he rubs the established local yokels the wrong way in doing so and pretty soon there are vultures circling all around him because he didn't kiss the right asses.
This post was edited on 10/21/15 at 5:10 pm
Posted by throwingoranges
Member since Jul 2014
555 posts
Posted on 10/21/15 at 6:36 pm to
The rumor seems to have legs. All over PM and it makes a lot of sense.

Mizzou Mule, would you care to define what you mean by a lib-tard?

My initial reaction is that you're a fearful xenophobe with a fetish for guns and little sympathy for the mentally challenged. But I want to give you a chance to state your position and use of the term "lib-tard" more clearly.
Posted by TigerCruise
Virginia Beach, VA
Member since Oct 2013
11898 posts
Posted on 10/21/15 at 7:15 pm to
I'm overseas, can someone explain to me what's going on with PP? I heard congress was having issues passing the budget because of it but what does that have to do with the University?

Thanks
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