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Did she forget to wash her hands?
Posted on October 3, 2006 2:12 PM
Iowa. Such a quiet, sleepy state. It's the Labrador retriever of States, until it spins around and bites you right on the reality bits.
The University of Iowa must still be spinning after The Ohio State University did all kinds of nasty squiggly things to their football team on Saturday night. Why else would they fire the director of the University Hygenic Laboratory?
Mary Gilchrist, director of University Hygienic Laboratory for 11 years, was fired from her job today. Gilchrist said University of Iowa officials fired her for speaking out about issues important to the health of Iowans, including the university's plan that would undersize the new laboratory, which serves as the state's public health lab.Isn't this one of those institutes of higher education that aspire to greater heights of human achievement? That challenges people to be more than what they are today? That fire newly hired third-shift campus housekeeping staff for accidentally kicking out a refrigerator plug in one of the dining halls, leading to 400 students suffering from food poisoning, and a sudden shortage of TP throughout the campus?
Ok, so I may have had something to do with the third one there. You'd think no one had ever had to spend an afternoon within waddling distance of a restroom before.
See, free speech and freedom of expression apply to lots of things. But not the leadership decisions of a deep-pocketed, well-connected, food poisoning-free university. Someone probably earned tickets on the 50 yard line for sending Gilchrist off. Let's hope no one gets sick over this.
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