John Chadima Says Alcohol The Reason For Sexual Incident With Male Student Employee
The news that John Chadima made unwanted sexual moves on a male student employee during the Rose Bowl trip to California last year created lots of buzz for viewers of the late local news on Tuesday night. After lots of chatter and speculation over the past weeks the facts were laid out for all to see. It was a rather sad and bizarre story.
The former senior associate athletic director resigned his position early this year, and placed the University of Wisconsin at the center of controversy and intrigue after the allegations were made known to university officials. Though there are questions that remain one thing seems to be settled. At least in the mind of John Chadima.
News reports of what led Chadima to make such a foolish sexual move, and then threaten to fire the student employee, seems to place alcohol at the center of the storm.
“It is certainly not reflective of the type of person I am, my lifestyle, my management style or my faith or beliefs,” he wrote.
“However I make no excuses and have come to the realization that over the past few months, alcohol had controlled and consumed my life,” the statement continued. “I am taking steps to correct that problem in my life at this time.”
Once again the blame for bad behavior is placed on the shoulders of alcohol. That might be the appropriate place to point blame, or it might be a quick reflexive move to blunt harsher criticism of Chadima’s character.
When I first heard the response from Chadima about alcohol being to blame my mind flashed to the faces of Congressmen who get caught in hijinks, or celebrities who are caught with their pants down, and then also blamed alcohol. Yes, sometimes people have serious problems with alcohol, and it is the root cause for their bad behavior.
But sometimes alcohol is just a grand PR ploy to avert a more harsh assessment of a person’s character.
After watching the news my mind raced back to an article that I had read not so long ago about this very topic of drinking and making bad decisions. A recent study finds support that people still know they are making mistakes when intoxicated, but just don’t care as much.
While I find our culture too awash in alcohol on the one hand, I also do not like to see alcohol used as an easy excuse for those who really need a way to maneuver through public embarrassment.
If John Chadima has a serious drinking problem then I wish him a treatment plan that will allow for a life of sobriety. I really do. If, however, Chadima is using alcohol to steer his way around a dreadful PR mess then I have less charitable thoughts about the former senior associate athletic director.
That’s the point. “was threatened with being fired by the person making the assault” either stand and take it or risk a career change. Drinking makes you feel ‘beyond yourself’ and the impaired then feel empowered to impose their will on one poor son-o-gun who had to decide what he was going to do. He’s right to go and then tell. And it’s correct that the University remove Mr. Chadima from the university life.
skip.
Try robbin a bank while under the influence,see if the judge,will let you off ,I doubt it.
And though as insiginicant as sex assault is(in UW”s eyes)it still “may” be a crime
Jack,
John Doe was an employee and was threatened with being fired by the person making the assault, and therein lies the problem with your comment.
AND HOW MANY MEN MAKE THE SAME PASS/ADVANCE AT A GIRL IN A BAR THEN TURNED DOWN AND AND IT’S NOT GETTING HEADLINES. THIS IS NOT A CHILD OF 11 OR 12 YEARS OLD WHO CANNOT PROTECT HIMSELF BUT A MAN WHO DID WHAT HE WATED BY LEAVING THE ROOM. IT SHOULD HAVE NOT GONE ANY FURTHER THAN THAT. THIS IS NOT PENN STATE.
I agree with you here – Chadima’s parents obviously did a poor job of raising him.
This is bullflop and he hopes people buy it so that he can minimize the consequences for himself. This IS what sick people and alcohol abusers do, but it’s certainly no “road to recovery”. .Where’s the I here. I did it
ME me me and I Anyone who blames their behavior on the stuff like it was sooooo unlike “me” has a long way to go before, I dunno before anything.
Plus – threre’s a LOT of alcoholics and meth afddicts and wheatever else here in WI, The junk does NOT make them assault students, or “be gay”. Being gay or a pedo or anything else is separate from booze. Frat boys drink all thru college – do they all spend those years in a big old Man Pile as a result? I think not.
Maybe you have issues with your impulses and you need “a little something” to get comfy and make that grab for that cute guy, but the alcohol does not “make you be gay”. it might make you be uninhibited and forget what you did Last Summer.
I hear the U.S, militarry had some Gas chemical weapon that Makes Men Gay and Bursting With Mutual Desire. He missed his opportunity there. He should have gone with a “I came into contact with chemical weapons of Mass Gay Pedo Destruction. He could have blamed the Military-Industrial Complex. But no.
He just wants to STAY IN A VENUE WITH FUTURE VICTIMS.
If it was “just a mutual thing” between willing persons, the student employee would not have complained. People have affairs etc. Gay affairs, age-difference affairs. Exploitation and interpersonal abuse is a different thing. I hope sensible people everywhere call this guy on his BS. Call him a LIAR. And a sick man who needs to be kept away from potential victims – one abuses his power over his employees and should not be trusted in that scenario again.