Northwestern’s AD wrote a book of advice to young men trying to make their way in football, Chi Trib features it as a sign of what’s wrong at NU, where horrible hazing is reported. Let us give that a look.

Chicago Newspapers

Northwestern AD Derrick Gragg, under scrutiny for hazing scandal, offers questionable advice about women — ‘man’s greatest distraction’ — in book

Wuxtry.

Questionable, eh? Like this, from Chi Trib?

In his book, Gragg . . . calls women “man’s greatest distraction,” criticizes the portrayal of women in music videos as “booty-shaking sex-kittens,” and provides his take on serious crimes like rape and sexual assault.

Booty-shaking sex kittens is inaccurate? He made it up, there’s no such phenomenon? Or: You dasn’t mention such things in civilized society?

Gragg said in an email to the Tribune that he wrote the book as a reflection of his own experiences as a young Black man “fulfilling my dream” of playing Division I football.

It’s a “black thang,” as a  Roosevelt Road hanger-on in the ’60s said proudly of various styles and behaviors. The book’s title, “40 Days of Direction: Life Lessons from the…

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