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Rapper Dr. Dre and the rock band Metallica separately filed suits against Napster and several universities this spring. Metallica named Yale, Indiana University and University of Southern California in its suit...
...those claims: Knight's teams have won three national championships and his players have one of the highest rates of graduation among Division One programs. It's the stories behind the numbers that make people nervous. He's been cited at least a dozen times during his career at Indiana for violent and/or threatening behavior toward fellow staff members, players and game officials. He's been accused of making racist comments on multiple occasions. He's been publicly reprimanded by the university so often that everyone involved can probably do the whole thing by rote...
...Indiana University's administration is all too aware of the delicate balance required to handle an issue as explosive as this. "Sports are an industry of public interest and public passion," explains Deborah Crown, professor of management at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. "Indiana University doesn't want to fall prey to doing what the public wants just because it's the popular thing to do; they want to do what's best for the university." On the bright side, after Monday's meeting and the painstaking negotiations that reportedly led up to it, Knight is now wholly responsible...
...trustees and president of Indiana University explained they are "ethically" beholden to give Knight "one more chance" to prove he's not dangerously unstable (he's just harmlessly unstable, really). At odds are the apparently blinding effects of Hoosier loyalty and broader national standards of acceptable behavior. Knight, the university administration and the basketball players might have been better served by a panel of truly objective investigators; Monday's decision only leaves President Brand and his trustees wide open to criticism that they didn't take Knight's outrageous behavior seriously...
...Knight is an icon who stands tall on the otherwise flat Indiana landscape. He makes alumni proud - and proud alumni send big, fat checks to the university development office. And luckily for Knight, his is the twisted realm of collegiate athletics, where the NCAA is king and where anyone who uses the word "responsible" is well advised to keep a dictionary handy...