University of Louisville president, staff wear sombreros, bushy mustaches for stereotypical ‘Mexican

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1. There are other major problems at this University...

.....University officials said that they “made a mistake and are very sorry” in the statement from Kathleen Smith, Ramsey’s chief of staff. She promised “a series of campus conversations” around racial tolerance.

“This event shows we have much more to learn about our community.” she said. “Our office will institute immediate training on diversity and racial equality issues.”

Allegations that a former assistant basketball coach hired an escort to arrange strippers and sex for prospective recruits have already rocked the public university. The former escort’s claims in her book “Breaking Cardinal Rules: Basketball and the Escort Queen" has prompted multiple investigations and should have had Ramsey on alert, editor-in-chief Olivia Krauth wrote in The Louisville Cardinal.

“As the president of a university, I would expect more,” she wrote in the student newspaper. “As the president of a university currently in the middle of a scandal in the national news, I would expect even more than that. I would expect discretion. I would expect thought and research into whether or not this is considered offensive.”