Breaking News: Freeland Resigns; Nushuffle.com Wins

In a shocking development that nobody saw coming long time Northeastern University President Richard Freeland announced his resignation on Wednesday.

Nobody seems to know why but there are plenty of theories out there. Some people think that he was forced to resigned just like Cincinnatti's basketball coach Bob Huggins, perhaps because of a soon to be discovered sex scandal. Although looking at the guy I don't think anybody would want to have sex with him.

Personally, I think that he just got tired of getting made fun of by me and my friends on www.nushuffle.com, a parody website that rips him at least once a month. In fact over the last two years we've had him in a rap battle with 50 cent, had the school market him as a sex symbol to boost the university's visibility, depicted him as a tyranical dictator known better as Premeir Freeland, and even had him dying in an off campus shooting.

Freeland's departure is surely a moral victory for the guys at nushuffle.com who challenged Freeland to fix the infamous nu shuffle which he was unable to do and which ultimately led to his dismise. Sure NU has risen a lot the last few years in the U.S. News and World Report Rankings but they've made no progress whatsoever in ending the shuffle (i.e. the bureaucratic runaround students are given) or improving the student-administration relationship.

Personally, I think that Northeastern is better off without Freeland, his quaf of unparted hair and his lisp. His greatest attribute was his work ethic and how passionate he was about getting Northeastern into the Top 100 no matter how hard it will be or how long it would take. But now that's he announced his resignation his credibility as an administrator has been undermined. He's no longer a man of his word. No longer Northeastern's saving grace.

His resume now includes the time he alienated the African-American community by trying to knock down their community center in favor of more student housing, several Patriots and Red Sox victory riots, the explusion of students and subsequent cancellation of Springfest as a result of said riots that he didn't prevent, and now quitting before seeing his vision through.

He has got to be one of the worst University Presidents in the history of modern civilization. He had tunnel vision in regards to getting NU into the Top 100 neglecting almost every other detail of the University in the process, especially the students.

All of which would have been forgotten if he had succeeded. But now that he's quitting his shortcomings will become more defined. And soon everyone will know what I have always known: that Freeland was no savior. Quite the opposite actually.