I was not sure, but I've been reading that putting misleading information on a resume was the hip thing to do these days.
Currently, I'm a sophomore journalism major at Ball State University. Tomorrow, I can have my master's in journalism, bachelor's in exercise science and become a stellar athlete playing baseball, basketball and football...all on my resume.
Hey, they're only minor details.
Did I forget to mention I graduated with honors, drive race cars and am currently pursuing another degree in botany?
I guess you could say I was, and still am pretty active at Ball State. All by the age of 20 years old. Who wouldn't hire me?
This is a growing problem in community, high school, college and even professional sports: dishonesty.
As recently as Tuesday, at the prestigious Dartmouth University, Charles Harris was to be named the new athletic director, and just hours previous to the announcement, he resigned. Because questions were raised about his resume.
Dictonary.com defines the word resume as a "brief account of one's professional or work experience and qualifications, often submitted with an employment application."
It really does not say that the "brief account" has to be true. I guess that is an ethical question.
There were no details on what questions were raised about Harris' history, but his background is pretty prestigious, assuming it's all true.
Harris was the commissioner of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference since 1996, the athletic director at Arizona State University from 1985 to 1996, the University of Pennsylvania's athletic director from 1979 to 1985 and held several athletic positions at the University of Michigan from 1973 to 1979. His background does not stop here.
Harris has been on many NCAA committees as well. He has been on the men's basketball selection committee, committee on financial aid and several negotiating committees for television contracts. He was chairman of the NCAA Management Council, also.
Take a deep breath. That's a lot to say about one person.
But it frightens me that this man has been on all these NCAA committees, and held all sorts of positions, yet nobody ever questioned his resume previous to Dartmouth.
Is it good to have somebody who is dishonest on an NCAA committee?
Harris isn't the only person being dishonest in sports.
In the past month, the president of the U.S. Olympic Committee resigned. This is the person in charge of the United States' teams during the Olympics.
Sandra Baldwin resigned from USOC after admitting that she lied about her academic history.
Notre Dame, George O'Leary, do I have to say anymore?
O'Leary went as far as to say he played for the University of New Hampshire and earned three letters on the team. He was on the team, but did not even play a single game.
Now that is just a flat out lie. I look like Brad Pitt (he he, refer to mug).
I guess there is hope that maybe, just maybe, there is somebody who is honest.
Tom Collen resigned from the women's basketball head coaching job at Colorado State and accepted one at Vanderbilt. The next day he resigned from Vanderbilt due to his resume.
Collen had listed two graduate degrees from Miami of Ohio, but it was reported that he actually only held one degree. This led to the resignation.
Friday a spokesman from Miami said when the registrar's office entered Collen's transcript, it was one master's degree in two areas of study, when this little blunder should have been entered as two separate degrees.
So Collen does not have a job at Vanderbilt or Colorado State, when in fact he was being honest.
Ball State needs to take all these cases into account as they search for the successor to Andrea Seger. Because if they don't, I promise I'll be the reporter who questions the resume if something isn't right.
That, or I'll just juice up my resume and Ball State can hire me.
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