Ruth Watkins is fully capable of lifting the clouds of despair and mistrust that now hang over the University of Utah.
But first, the president of Utah’s flagship university must, to paraphrase that nasty character in “Henry VI,” get rid of all the lawyers.
It has been not quite a year since 21-year-old U. freshman Lauren McCluskey was murdered just outside her dorm on the U. campus, killed by a former boyfriend who himself died by suicide before the night was over.
Even since, the university’s many official memorials and statements of consolation and tribute have rung hollow to many, including McCluskey’s family and other U.