I live in Macomb, Ill. The lead sports story on our local NBC affiliate April 28 was about a “bad news day for Cyclone fans.” This station is based in Quincy, Ill.

It surely is a bad day for Cyclone fans, alumni, letter winners, Alumni Association members and donors — all labels that I currently wear proudly — when you find out that not only do the Cyclones employ (or have employed) a man who is alleged to have beat his wife and a man who had child pornography on his work computer (also affiliated with the men’s basketball program), but they also employ a man who has, on repeated occasions, frequented bars and college parties when he is on state-affiliated business (and while he is to be supervising numerous Iowa State student-athletes).

Now the university has to defend an adult who is Iowa’s highest paid public employee because he wanted to go to a frat party and commiserate with college boys and sexually harass college coeds. Much to his chagrin, he has had to say he had a lapse in judgment and he’s sorry.

Boys may be boys, but he is a man and old enough to know better. I don’t care how many games he has coached or how his teams have performed on the court. Get the ax out now before any more embarrassing “mistakes” are discovered.

Ellyn L. Bartges

Alumna