New Candidate for AD

[swellafelon]

08, was there any real doubt?

My hat's off to the guy. He's my age, for cryin' out loud. He must know a good discount pharmacy.

And I don't find it the least bit unseemly that she was an undergraduate student-athlete at UNI when Hartzell was the middle aged Athletic Director there.


On a related note, I heard that if Hartzell gets the job, Jill is going to do donuts on the West Quad after every Rambler victory.

[swellafelon]

How somebody who is capable of writing this load of crap about himself is being seriously considered for the Athletic Director position is beyond me:

Rick Hartzell believes in family values. He believes that there is a certain way to live and conduct one’s self in order to be successful in a family, in an organization and in a team. His IOWA “farm boy” upbringing and a strong family unit taught him many valuable lessons which he shares in a way that tugs at your heartstrings. Further, he knows the “SECRET” to bringing these values to an organization, to a team and to a group of people in order to help them do better, be more productive and to do more with less. He will inspire you. He will make you laugh, cry and think. He will make you objectively reevaluate your personal way of doing things. He will make you better

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http://www.rickhartzell.com/

[GoRamblers]

How somebody who is capable of writing this load of crap about himself is being seriously considered for the Athletic Director position is beyond me:

Rick Hartzell believes in family values. He believes that there is a certain way to live and conduct one’s self in order to be successful in a family, in an organization and in a team. His IOWA “farm boy” upbringing and a strong family unit taught him many valuable lessons which he shares in a way that tugs at your heartstrings. Further, he knows the “SECRET” to bringing these values to an organization, to a team and to a group of people in order to help them do better, be more productive and to do more with less. He will inspire you. He will make you laugh, cry and think. He will make you objectively reevaluate your personal way of doing things. He will make you better

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http://www.rickhartzell.com/

Seems like something i'd read in the Cigarboy manifesto.

[swellafelon]

I will concede that Hartzell must have a "strong family unit".

[GoRamblers]

I will concede that Hartzell must have a "strong family unit".

Click this link

[ahunte1]

Given the direction this thread has taken, there's no way I'm clicking that.

[swellafelon]

Does Hartzell lie about his age?

This website says Hartzell was born in 1952.

http://www.mylife.com/rickhartze6382n

This is consisitent with the bio Hartzell posted on his own website, which shows he entered UNI in 1970, when he would have been 17 or 18, a normal age for beginning college.

http://www.rickhartzell.com/credentials/

Yet, in this 2011 article about Hartzell and car racing, Hartzell's age is listed as 57, not 59.

https://www.dirtondirt.com/National_4538.html

Now this could be the author's mistake...or maybe Hartzell was fudging the truth about his age when interviewed for the article, in which case a red flag is raised.

[GoRamblers]

Given the direction this thread has taken, there's no way I'm clicking that.

I promise it is entirely harmless and a good, clean, comical follow up to Swella's post.

Fyi, you can interact with Ed's head.

[swellafelon]

Does Hartzell lie about his academic achievements?

I wouldn't say he lies, but on his website he certainly is careless or ambiguous when stating them, and makes it easy for somebody to draw the wrong conclusion about them.

http://www.rickhartzell.com/credentials/

Hartzell claims to have been a "Professor" at Coe College from 1977-1980, when he was a newly-minted graduate with only a masters degree. I don't know for a fact what his rank at Coe was, but according to its faculty handbook, newly hired teachers with master degrees are hired as "Instructors", not "Professors".

http://www.coe.edu/uploads/pdfs/academi ... ndbook.pdf


Also on his website, he states from 1980-1982 : "University of Iowa Ph.D. Graduate Assistant, Assistant Baseball Coach".

Now, in the context of what came before on the Credentials page on which this entry appears, I initially (and quite naturally, I believe) read this to mean Hartzell had been awarded a Ph.D from Iowa, while also serving as a graduate assistant baseball coach. But I see now that, with the absence of a comma between "Ph.D" and "Graduate", an alternate interpretation is possible, that being that "Ph.D" is merely a descriptive qualifier of "Graduate Assistant", and not an assertion that Hartzell had been awarded a Ph.D, which, in fact, he had not.

Whether this was merely sloppy draftsmanship by Hartzell, or evidence of an intent to deceive the reader by ambiguity into believing that Hartsell earned a Ph.D at Iowa, I don't know.

[08rambler]

Swella - I didnt know your arms were long enough to reach that far.