Utah president on short list to become next UW president

[TripletDaddy]

I just googled Michael Young sexual affair and there doesn't seem to be any "sex scandal" going on. No laws broken, nothing that grown up people seem to care much about. The only thing that is going on is the kind of sophomoric prurient speculation that seems to be endemic to your adopted socio-culture there in Utah such as leads to massive threads about pornography here. Guess what, the real world isn't interested in Michael Young's personal life, just like it doesn't believe that pornography is going to make the Constitution "hang by a thread". I think you've been spending too much time in utah and it's time for you to return to LA.

To clarify, I was asking for details on this guy's big cross that he is bearing. I have no clue what it is, either, but this is the second time it has been a topic of discussion here, so apparently there is something going. You are right that it is all pure speculation although LA Ute has all but confirmed that whatever it was wound up busting up a marriage of 30 years, so perhaps he is basically confirming the rumor.

I agree with your final point.

[Green Monstah]

I don't know what Huntsman is doing, but an easy solution re your imagined catch 22 would be for him to stick to doing due dilligence about what his donatives would be used for and such business, rather than worrying about the social lives of U of U employees. (I don't believe any of the stuff I read on these boards about this, by the way, especially what I read about Huntsman, the Eccles, etc.)

I'm sure Huntsman knows where the money goes and what it does. As a GA, though, he may feel internal or external pressure not to support someone whose lifestyle choices he does not agree with. That's my point (and the one you're missing).

I'm on board with you, though...there seems to be lots of smoke and nothing substantive.

[EuropeanFootballMale]

As a GA, though, he may feel internal or external pressure not to support someone whose lifestyle choices he does not agree with.

That's not exclusive to GA's. That's everybody.

[SeattleUte]

That's not exclusive to GA's. That's everybody.

It's unprofessional to make a judgment about someone's lifestyle in a business context. Sorry; just being honest.

[EuropeanFootballMale]

It's unprofessional to make a judgment about someone's lifestyle in a business context. Sorry; just being honest.

Of course it isn't. I assume your point is that infidelity isn't important enough to matter to people who aren't judgemental prudes. The judgemental prudes would disagree.

[Green Monstah]

It's unprofessional to make a judgment about someone's lifestyle in a business context. Sorry; just being honest.

That's the real world, SU. People give money to people they like who do things they like. That's true in Utah and everywhere else.

[SeattleUte]

That's the real world, SU. People give money to people they like who do things they like. That's true in Utah and everywhere else.

I don't know why anyone is bringing up "infidelity" here. In any event, I don't believe these stories about Huntsman. I think they are fictions made up by smaller minds with an agenda.

[Green Monstah]

I don't know why anyone is bringing up "infidelity" here. In any event, I don't believe these stories about Huntsman. I think they are fictions made up by smaller minds with an agenda.

You could very well be right. This entire discussion has been hypothetical.

[LA Ute]

LA, I have chided you in the past about referring to it as a tragedy. None of us is in any position to judge Michael Young about his divorce or make any judgment about the event at all. This shouldn't be a problem for any of us as this is a pretty easy divorce not to judge, since all his kids appear to be adults.

Of course, whether or not it is "tragic," in the classical sense, is something on which reasonable people can disagree. Making sport, however, of someone's heartfelt expression of sympathy over a friend's or acqaintance's misfortune is not such a thing. I'm not planning to delve into this further but anyone who wants to can find the not-funny, snarky posts I am talking about in all their glory.

I disagree with your bolded statement as simply inaccurate. I also disagree that the children's status as adults settles the question of whether this is a sad or tragic thing.

[EuropeanFootballMale]

I don't know why anyone is bringing up "infidelity" here. In any event, I don't believe these stories about Huntsman. I think they are fictions made up by smaller minds with an agenda.

I don't either. I don't know anything about it. Probably on account of my small mind and the agenda that consumes it.

[Superdeluxe]

Seems like a lateral move now that Utah is in the Pac.

Really?

[LA Ute]

Really?

Eddie is speaking ironically, I believe.

[hostile]

Recent news has Young taking the UW job.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/51...ident.html.csp

[OrangeUte]

Recent news has Young taking the UW job.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/51...ident.html.csp

Welcome back home president samuelson.

[myboynoah]

Welcome back home president samuelson.

That's funny. Even funnier, I bet there is a significant portion of BYU Fandumb that would welcome the move, sure that Samuelson's true allegiences remain with Utah.