The Ivory Tower has cracks

No pun intended.......
So I decide to see what academia is saying about this professor and I come away with 3 WTF and 1 I'm not surprised. :-S
Here is the link so that you can see for yourself: http://chronicle.com/forums/index.php?topic=59810.0
Approximately 1/3 of the post express sympathies for the those involved. Of this one-third, 1/12 is purely sympathetic. The other 11/12 are mixed in with how does this look for academia. Of the 2/3 majority there is also an overwhelming how does this look for academia and concerns about how Fox News will portray academics. There is some snippiness about his endowment and a wonder of how his ACADEMIC background could have contributed. Therein lies my WTF. How about he was human and this was a human response. How about he had underlying psychological issues exacerbated by the stress of living up to an image every darn day? How about his wife actually dared cheat on him - how could she - after all I am an endowed professor - this must be punished. How about........dude was a marketing professor with a flair for the theatric - if I go down, I will go down big! How about it had absolutely nothing to do with academics and absolutely everything to do with a damn inflated sense of ego???
Dr.K's prayers and condolences and thoughts and sympathies go out to those two young children who will forever have to live with the stigma of seeing their father fall from the Ivory Tower like a flaming fire (cue Lord of the Rings: Return of the King) and to be motherless. May God send someone into their lives that will bring love stability and empathy so that they may recognize that this is not and never will be is or has been their fault.