Universities that broadcast athletics on Limbaugh stations should read their own mission statements.

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Below are some portions of mission statements of universities that broadcast sports on Rush Limbaugh radio stations.

A full list of 76 such universities (with links) can be found at Universities for Rush Limbaugh. The number in parentheses is the number of Limbaugh stations the university broadcasts on if more than one.

From that web page:

Of 120 top ranked football programs, 71, or approximately 59% broadcast on Limbaugh stations. Some broadcast on more than one Limbaugh station and accounted for 170 of Limbaugh's approximately 600 stations, or 28%. 15 of last year's final 16 NCAA tournament basketball teams (except BYU) broadcast on Limbaugh stations.

The Limbaugh stations they broadcast athletics on are licensed to operate in the public interest but instead form part of a nationally coordinated radio megaphone for global warming denial. It is used to attack educators and scientists and distort their work. It has been undoing the hard work of millions of concerned citizens for more than 20 years.

Associating with a university through its athletics program gives those radio stations and their talkers strong community standing and credibility. It is an endorsement. Those associations help attract local and national advertisers.

Any station that broadcasts Limbaugh is basically a megaphone for promoting national and local GOP goals and they play significant roles in local politics, including elections of university regents, choice of university presidents, funding issues, etc.

By broadcasting sports on Limbaugh stations these universities are 'requiring' their students to listen to them if they don't have alternatives. It is not uncommon to hear ads for Limbaugh and other RW talkers during a sports broadcast.

How many stations could afford to lose their associations with these universities? Some of these universities may be in a position to demand these stations not only fire Limbaugh but balance their programming and add progressive talkers. In a short time that could help achieve what may never happen through legislation, especially with 1000-plus coordinated radio stations screaming about free speech.

One of Syracuse University's stations is WABC. It is a founding Limbaugh station and is located next to Union Station, downtown New York. I wonder how many OWS protestors walked by it while Limbaugh, with all the other RW talkers, screamed for police action and called them: lousy hippies, thieves, rapists, purse snatchers, endless parade of human debris, 
whining little wimps
looking for free meals, free drugs, free sex, etc.

The mission statement excerpts below are typical. If they were taken at all seriously they would prohibit the association with Limbaugh radio stations. Or any partisan political radio station. Can university administrations argue a money motive (reaching larger numbers of listeners on the big Limbaugh stations) and not be mocking their mission statements? That argument would be especially ridiculous when considering the 20 years of attacks on public education funding coming from these stations.

Even if Limbaugh is retired, we still need to fix the radio problem.

Someone suggested students could hold up signs at athletic events- and the NCAA tournament is coming up in a week or so!

Someone has over 400 signatures on a petition re the North Carolina Tarheels at http://www.change.org/petitions/chancellor-of-the-university-of-north-carolina-tell-tar-heel-sports-network-affiliates-to-drop-rush-limbaugh .



Boston College

It seeks both to advance its place among the nation's finest universities and to bring to the company of its distinguished peers and to contemporary society the richness of the Catholic intellectual ideal of a mutually illuminating relationship between religious faith and free intellectual inquiry.
Boston College fulfills this mission with a deep concern for all members of its community, with …

University of Colorado

Promoting diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and intellectual endeavors
Pursuing knowledge in service to Colorado, the nation, and the world.
At the University of Colorado at Boulder, we accept both the public role and responsibility of a flagship, including the expectations of leadership, excellence in all we do, and commitment to the highest academic core values.
The University of Colorado at Boulder will become a leading model of the "new flagship university" of the 21st century—by redefining learning and discovery in a global context and setting new standards in education, research, scholarship, and creative work that will benefit Colorado and the world.

Indiana (2)

Indiana University strives to achieve full diversity, and to maintain friendly, collegial, and humane environments, with a strong commitment to academic freedom.

Kansas

In the classroom, in our athletic competition and within our community of collegiate sports, Kansas Athletics will be a national leader - never a follower - in setting the highest standards for competitive excellence, ethical behavior and fiscal integrity.
We will create a stimulating, multi-cultural environment that nurtures the human potential, the mental well-being and spirit of every student-athlete and athletics staff member, while enhancing the University of Kansas' commitment to disciplined inquiry, intellectual diversity and uncompromising integrity.

Michigan (3)

We celebrate and promote diversity in all its forms, seeking the understanding and perspective that distinct life experiences bring. We proclaim ourselves a scholarly community in which ideas may be freely expressed and challenged, and all people are welcomed, respected and nurtured in their academic and social development.
We strive to be an exemplary employer and a positive influence in our community. We provide an environment where all employees have opportunities to develop their potential, and where there is a shared passion for excellence and a commitment to respect for one another.
We dedicate ourselves to ethical and responsible stewardship of financial, physical and environmental resources. We look for tools and strategies to create and enhance sustainable practices in all facets of operations and seek to lead in the global quest for a sustainable future.

Missouri (7)

Scholarship and teaching are daily driven by a sense of public service—the obligation to produce and disseminate knowledge that will improve the quality of life in the state, the nation and the world.
Our duty is to acquire, create, transmit, and preserve knowledge, and to promote understanding.
Respect
Respect for one's self and for others is the foundation of honor and the basis of integrity. A hallmark of our community is respect—for the process by which we seek truths and for those who engage in that process. Such respect is essential for nurturing the free and open discourse, exploration, and creative expression that characterize a university. Respect results in dedication to individual as well as collective expressions of truth and honesty. Respect is demonstrated by a commitment to act ethically, to welcome difference, and to engage in open exchange about both ideas and decisions.
Responsibility
A sense of responsibility requires careful reflection on one's moral obligations. Being responsible imposes the duty on us and our university to make decisions by acknowledging the context and considering consequences, both intended and unintended, of any course of action. Being responsible requires us to be thoughtful stewards of resources—accountable to ourselves, each other, and the publics we serve.

New Mexico - Athletics

We provide an environment that promotes personal, academic, athletic, and social development.
Respect - We value the importance of diversity, fairness, goodwill and sportsmanship.

North Carolina (8)

With lux, libertas—light and liberty—as its founding principles, the University has charted a bold course of leading change to improve society and to help solve the world’s greatest problems.

Oregon (2)

a commitment to undergraduate education, with a goal of helping the individual learn to question critically, think logically, communicate clearly, act creatively, and live ethically
a dedication to the principles of equality of opportunity and freedom from unfair discrimination for all members of the university community and an acceptance of true diversity as an affirmation of individual identity within a welcoming community
a commitment to international awareness and understanding, and to the development of a faculty and student body that are capable of participating effectively in a global society
the conviction that freedom of thought and expression is the bedrock principle on which university activity is based
the cultivation of an attitude toward citizenship that fosters a caring, supportive atmosphere on campus and the wise exercise of civic responsibilities and individual judgment throughout life
a continuing commitment to affordable public higher education

Tennessee (4)

Our primary mission is to move forward the frontiers of human knowledge and enrich and elevate the citizens of the state of Tennessee, the nation, and the world.
At UT we value …
broad diversity, including people of all races, creeds, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, gender identities, physical abilities, and socioeconomic groups;
a culture that appreciates and respects faculty, staff, and students, and that acknowledges their interdependence and the vital role of every member of the Volunteer family;
engagement with our local and extended communities, embracing intercultural and global perspectives;
high standards of ethical and professional behavior;
intellectual curiosity, pursuit of knowledge, free exchange of ideas, and academic freedom and integrity;
transparent and data-informed decision making;
wise management of resources and infrastructure; and
our campus, our people, and our work.

UCLA

UCLA’s primary purpose as a public research university is the creation, dissemination, preservation, and application of knowledge for the betterment of our global society. To fulfill this mission, UCLA is committed to academic freedom in its fullest terms: we value open access to information, free and lively debate conducted with mutual respect for individuals, and freedom from intolerance. In all of our pursuits, we strive at once for excellence and diversity, recognizing that openness and inclusion produce true quality. These values underlie our three institutional responsibilities.

Syracuse (5)

Today, in a world in which knowledge is paramount, we believe that we best fulfill our role as an anchor institution in our community when:
We educate fully informed and committed citizens;
We provide access to opportunity;
We strengthen democratic institutions;
We create innovation that matters, and we share knowledge generously;
We inform and engage public opinion and debate; and
We cultivate and sustain public intellectuals.
Serving the public good in these ways pervades our daily decision making and connects us not just with our immediate community, but with communities throughout the world.

Our region has a treasured history of social innovation, having played a key role in abolitionism and the women’s rights movement.

Texas (3)

Core Purpose
To transform lives for the benefit of society.
Core Values
Learning - A caring community, all of us students, helping one another grow.
Discovery - Expanding knowledge and human understanding.
Freedom - To seek the truth and express it.
Leadership - The will to excel with integrity and the spirit that nothing is impossible.
Individual Opportunity - Many options, diverse people and ideas; one university.
Responsibility - To serve as a catalyst for positive change in Texas and beyond.
Honor Code
“The core values of The University of Texas at Austin are learning, discovery, freedom, leadership, individual opportunity, and responsibility. Each member of the university is expected to uphold these values through integrity, honesty, trust, fairness, and respect toward peers and community.”

Washington (5)

The primary mission of the University of Washington is the preservation, advancement, and dissemination of knowledge.
To promote their capacity to make humane and informed decisions, the University fosters an environment in which its students can develop mature and independent judgment and an appreciation of the range and diversity of human achievement.

Wisconsin/Madison (2)

The primary purpose of the University of Wisconsin–Madison is to provide a learning environment in which faculty, staff and students can discover, examine critically, preserve and transmit the knowledge, wisdom and values that will help ensure the survival of this and future generations and improve the quality of life for all. The university seeks to help students to develop an understanding and appreciation for the complex cultural and physical worlds in which they live and to realize their highest potential of intellectual, physical and human development.
Embody, through its policies and programs, respect for, and commitment to, the ideals of a pluralistic, multiracial, open and democratic society.

And from Universities for Rush Limbaugh:
Sample Petition:

We the undersigned demand that x university immediately find alternative radio stations to broadcast athletics.
By broadcasting on Rush Limbaugh (or other political talk radio) stations it supports anti-science global warming denial and partisan political propaganda and therefore contradicts its own stated goals and mission statement.