While the Grambling football team is back practicing, from Dwight comes news that Grambling fired David Lankster, online editor ofThe Gramblinite student newspaper, supposedly over posts made on the official Twitter feed. Lankster played a key role in exposing the deplorable facilities football players were complaining about. (Fox News has pictures of the facilities.) Lanskster’s firing was overturned, but he plans to resign.
I do wonder if I had some small hand in Lankster’s firing, since he used his personal Twitter account to retweet my suspicion that someone in the Administration was embezzling funds:
RT @BattleSwarmBlog: As an outsider, the football program reports are inexplicable unless someone in the Administration is embezzling funds.
— Dave (@acuzimaballer) October 19, 2013
@BattleSwarmBlog THERE YOU GO!!!! It's not that hard to see what's going on here!
— Dave (@acuzimaballer) October 19, 2013
And it’s not just the athletic department; large parts of the rest of the university are falling apart. And as a well-known book collector, this picture just breaks my heart:
This is one room in@TheGramblinite #WeNeedANSWERS pic.twitter.com/rMwVcCcmhP
— Dave (@acuzimaballer) October 21, 2013
Just budget cuts and the higher education bubble bursting? Maybe, but that doesn’t seem to explain everything. If I were Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal or Treasurer John Kennedy, I’d seriously consider auditing Grambling…