This Man Isn't Doing Much To Help Negative Community College Stereotypes Or Mini-Keg Sales

This has absolutely no real sports affiliation whatsoever, but it is suitable for a late Monday DUAN! post. (Possibly.) The above photo is of Iowa State Community College President Robert Paxton whose questionable decision to spend the 4th of July weekend partying with his 19-year-old son and some various bikini-clad young women on Lake Okoboji has not gone over well in his community.The Des Moines Register is a news organization hellbent on demanding answers about why a man put in charge of burnishing the dimly lit minds of central Iowa's most academically unmotivated would partake in such an irresponsible activity.

Paxton isn't a dummy — he just knows when to play one, though. The Register initially asked about the photos and the president said didn't know anything about them. Later, once it was revealed that the paper actually had the photos in their possession, he reconfigured his story. At least on some of the specifics as to why he was helping dispense beer from a mini-keg into young woman's mouth:

"If you want to know the truth, the thing was broken," he said. "I never opened the tap on any keg."

Asked what he was doing with the keg suspended over the woman's open mouth, Paxton said: "Nothing. The thing didn't work. I was laughing at them. You know, if I was doing anything, I was grabbing it and trying to put it back down."

Paxton also denied that his 19-year-old son was drinking that day, yet police records show the young Paxton was picked up for a DUI charge later that evening.

What kind of message do Paxton's actions not only give to the students — those devout, impressionable ICCC Tritons — but to their parents who have pumped hundreds of dollars into the hopes that their children could one day take their ICCC associate's degree and earn a managerial position at a Fort Dodge family restaurant. This is not Triton behavior, Bob, that's for sure.

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Anyway, Monday is over. The unofficial last week of summer is underway. Tonight? Go shopping for Back to School clothes and clean out your smoke-inhaling device of choice.

But tomorrow, please return fully refreshed and ready for more previews, the last of the Beijing Bureau installments and other sportsy-isms that make the world go round.

Thanks for your continued support of Deadspin and all the not-so-proud community college graduates affiliated with it.

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Send an email to A.J. Daulerio, the author of this post, at ajd@deadspin.com.

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