This has been news in the philly area for a couple of days. My colleagues/friends' reactions have been split. Some people don't see what the big deal is, while others agree with the students.
http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20160909_Ursinus_board_chair_steps_down_over_controversial_tweets.html
"Gotta love a janitor with a 'Ban Fracking Now' sticker on his bucket. Barack is clearly reaching his target demographic," said one of the tweets.
"Yoga pants? Per my DTW visual survey, only 10 percent of users should be wearing them. The rest need to be in sweats - or actually get dressed," said another.
A third, which was a retweet, referred to Caitlyn Jenner: "Bruce Jenner got 25 K for speaking engagements. Caitlyn gets $100K. What wage gap?"
The tweets were posted on his personal account before he became board chair.
I think he said some pretty stupid things, for no good reason. The biggest issue to me is someone holding a position like that has to consider his public social media posts in light of his and his organizations reputation. I head up a local non profit and I am very conscious when posting on Facebook pages etc that, right or wrong, my posts could come back and reflect on my organization.
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