Ronny Thompson, son to JT Jr. and brother to JT III, cashed in yesterday in a big way. According to USA Today, he just received $200,000 from Ball State University, where he previously served as men’s basketball head coach. For those of you who missed the dust-up this past summer and fall, here’s a summary of the events leading up to the payment. In haiku form.

nine and twenty-two
ball state, not (basket)ball state…
next season, ronny.

racial harassment?
and from inside the AD?!
ronny t. resigns.

mediation time.
point two mil, legal jargon.
all good things, etc.

A copy of the agreement reached between the University and Thompson following a mediation session in December is available on the USA Today website. USA Today also notes that Thompson would have made $182,000 if he had stayed on as head coach.  Though this is no small chunk of change, it is still significantly less than the $900,000 JT III is estimated to be earning and even the $412,121 salary (info on page 7) JT Jr. received from the University in FY 2004.

Shortly following the announcement that Heroes star Hayden Panettiere was coming to speak at Georgetown, the GW Hatchet announced their own famous speaker: right-wing cheerleader Ann Coulter.  GW apparently hasn’t gotten the memo that, like a small cut on the inside of your mouth, the only way to make Coulter go away is to ignore her.  But at least one GW student thinks its a good idea.  From the Hatchet:

“We feel that GW is deprived from the conservative movement,” said GW YAF’s [Young American Foundation] President, Sergio Gor. “We feel that our students are lacking the substance of a pure education. We are exposed to bias and all these opinions that are very one-sided, and it really has to be our group that brings in the conservative cause and conservative movement to campus.”    

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“We encourage all our liberal friends to come out and learn,” Gor said. “It’s a huge thing for GW to be having Ann Coulter. She’s one of the biggest stars on the speaker circuit. For us to be having her is a good thing for us.”

For those who need a refresher course on some of the more horrific things Coulter has said, check out the Stephen Colbert-Ann Coulter Challenge, from New York Magazine, in which you try to pick which quotes Colbert said and which quotes Coulter said.  (Hint: Colbert didn’t say this: ”Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity, as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of ‘Kill everyone who doesn’t smell bad and answer to the name Muhammad.’”)