[NU Sports] McGee Fire or Not?

[johnadeg at comcast.net]

I doubt that anyone on this list can't thank Providence that they didn't get picked up on a DUI charge sometime in their lives.  If getting picked up on a DUI charge is a reoccuring happening, that is another matter.
John DeGroat
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From: John Labbe <johnl at mac.com>
> I had assumed that John's comment was directed to a certain member of the NU law 
> faculty who was a former leader in the Weatherman organization.  But that 
> particular situation has more to do with the benefits of being the 
> daughter-in-law of a member of the board of trustees than anything else.  So I 
> thought it was irrelevant.  Also irrelevant would be anybody else's views 
> regarding the legalization of marijuana.
> 
> Regarding the actual issue at hand, I agree with Roy that McGee should not be 
> fired.  However, I disagree with Roy's reasoning.  I don't think it's OK for a 
> football coach on "vacation" to drive while intoxicated.  I don't think he 
> should lose his job over it, but it's nevertheless a serious issue.  I won't 
> harp on it, but I think we all probably know of lives that have needlessly been 
> lost to drunk driving.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> On Monday, January 22, 2007, at 02:07PM, <johnadeg at comcast.net> wrote:
> >MY point related to the comment that faculty members were past (and maybe?) 
> current users of illegal drugs so shouldn't be criticaal of a DUI charge.  Also, 
> It's always fun to stir up NY liberals, not that it is much of a challenge.
> >By the way for a contrast standards of conduct between at least NU  if not most 
> of college sports, how about the Detroit Lions assitant coach who was picked up 
> for trying to make a purchase at the drive in window of  a fast food restaraunt 
> while wearing no clothes and drunk as a skunk. and is still on the LIons 
> coaching staff!  Maybe that is why college sports are a lot more fun to watch 
> than the pros
> >
> >
> >John DeGroat
> > -------------- Original message ----------------------
> >From: NEONRye at aol.com
> >> I agree with Roy's comment, but cannot fathom what John is trying to say  
> >> with his comment.    If it is somehow a slap at liberalism or  perhaps 
> radical 
> >> left movements of the 60's and 70's, what does that have to  do with a DUI in 
> >> 2007?  Why, because some people want to decriminalize  marijuana--and what 
> does 
> >> that have to do with a DUII in 2007, when the DAILY  article says the 
> >> "influence" was alcohol (not any type of  drugs)?    
> >>  
> >> I hope that Coach McGee is able to work things out (as a presumably  
> >> first-time offender, he should be able to get a plea with the condition that 
> he  
> >> go 
> >> into a "program" or "school" (where you learn not to drink and drive) set by  
> >> the Court).  And then deal honestly and affirmatively with the young men  
> under 
> >> his charge.  I am confident that unless he "blew" a very high  percentage of 
> >> alcohol in his system, that the University (and Coach Fitz)  can--and 
> >> should--give him a second chance--but with strict conditions that if he  
> slips 
> >> again, 
> >> that's it.  I say that as a former prosecutor who now handles  some criminal 
> >> defense as part of my legal practice, including an occasional  "DWI" or "DUI" 
> >> case in NY.  
> >>  
> >> Paul Levinson
> >
> >
> >
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