Dumbass Daily:

A photograph showing Iowa Central Community College President Robert Paxton appearing to pour beer down the throat of a young woman has been circulating in the Fort Dodge area. Paxton, 52, and a group of young people are shown on a boat. Paxton and a young woman are holding a small keg of Coors Light above the head of another young woman, who appears to be drinking from the spigot held open by Paxton. Paxton and an Iowa Central trustee said that Paxton had done nothing wrong and that the actions were in his private life, not his college work... When asked Friday about the photo, which also shows a passenger on the boat pouring vodka into the mouth of another person, Paxton initially told a Des Moines Register reporter, "I have no idea what you're talking about." Asked whether he had recently been aboard a boat with a group of young people, Paxton replied, "No, not recently I haven't." In a separate conversation later in the day, Paxton acknowledged that he was aware of the photo. Asked why he initially denied knowledge of the picture, he said, "I was told not to speak." He declined to elaborate, however. Paxton said the photo was made on July 4 at West Okoboji Lake. He said his 19-year-old son, John, who was a student at Iowa Central last school year, is the younger man in the photo. He said his son was not drinking on the boat. However, Iowa court records show that a day after the photo was made, John Paxton was arrested and charged with second-offense drunken driving.

Take THAT, UMass! As a proud graduate of our nation's Community College system, I'm proud to see that not every academician in the country has gone all namby-pamby "you don't need alcohol to have a good time" on us. And it's nice to see President Paxton striking a blow for our equal rights here. Why should binge drinking and grabassing drunken coeds be the sole and exclusive purview of kids from good schools? Why can't mediocre students whose parents didn't save for college get a piece of that action too? And you have to appreciate how well Pres. Paxton handled it. Saying he was never on a boat, then saying it's cool because it was a father-son outing, then getting quoted in Deadspin saying that the spigot on the keg didn't work and he was only holding over a chick's mouth to make fun of them so it's not big deal. I sure could've used a guy like him running Massassoit when I was going there. It would've made all that commuting time fly by.