Editor,
A week ago, a student walked into class 30 minutes late, sat down, opened a bag of chips and started to text without any regard to how disruptive his actions were — much less the disrespect he showed toward the professor. The professor asked the student for his name and the student lied and gave the professor a fake name. He told the professor that his name was Tony Sloan.
Different day, same student interrupts the professor once again by walking to the front desk in the middle of the professor’s lecture only to set the attendance sheet on the desk, and to make matters worse he has the audacity to tell the professor, “What’s up?”
Unbelievable! The student who believes that he is above all is UNM’s finest athlete, A.J. Hardeman, the forward for UNM’s Men’s Basketball team.
I wonder if head basketball coach Steve Alford, UNM students, UNM alumni and the fans of Lobo basketball would be so quick to applaud Hardeman’s deeds away from the court.
Will disciplinary action be taken against him? Or will the status quo prevail?
I venture to say that the status quo will prevail because God knows that athletics comes before academics here at UNM. After all, we need the money the Athletics Department brings to the University. Hence, it really doesn’t matter what the behavior of a coach and/or a student athlete is as long as the University gets the big “W.”
Denise Angell
UNM Student
