It is veterans day today where we honor those who take of the uniform of defenders of our freedom. Today, that comes from an unlikely source-the Daily Illini with no less than three articles espousing the importance of our service men and women.
In one such article is the revelation of the U of ILL's hostility to making veterans collegiate experience an adequate one. No news here, as the UI has a long history of laying veterans on the sidelines. Yet, if the TASSers in the DI had done their job properly in the past, the University of ILL's poor standings in the Best for Vets list would come as no revelation.
No doubt the sycophantic praise of veterans and pro-veteran policies-both of which the DI has abhorred since 2001, is the result of verbal, and (if its copious advertising for the Global Campus fiasco is of any indication) a very likely monetary directive.
Yet the DI all but ignored the revelations back in 2007 when the University of ILL conspired to revoke and remove its promised MBA scholarships to veterans in the College of Business. Championed by Rob Van der Hooning with support of Pat Quinn and Rahm Emanuel, the scholarship program was removed by administrator's including BJ White, Herman, Ghosh, DeBrock, and Ikenberry (David). White later used his position and via then-Chancellor Sylvia Manning to weed out Van der Hooning. When he objected to the railroading of the veterans who were promised, not to mention the unethical actions by we have all come to expect now by the clout-filled crowd, he was illegally fired.
We could go on, but for a much better summary, read it at Marathon Pundit.
Ghosh's rationale that there were "too many jar heads" and his attempt to run them out of the program by bumping up deadline dates without informing the applicants, besides being underhanded, strikes us as pandering as well. After seeing the racist and hate-filled harangues concerning veterans coming from the likes of employees such 9/11 "Truther" David Green (who now has sunk to a new low accusing veterans of enlisting just because "they think it's cool to blow people away) , or even DI employees such as Chelsea Fiddyment or Amy Allen, we are left with no doubt exactly who the administrators concerned are pandering to.
More telling is the status of those involved: the ethically-challenged BJ White is now continuing to extort the taxpayers behind a near-invincible fortress of tenure. Ghosh is imperator now of economic development, not to mention clout appointments of state senators' spouses. DeBrock now is dean of the College of Business, and one of the clout masters.
Meanwhile the DI only printed a few words from Van der Hooning, and an entire accusation from Robin Kaler. The TASSers at the DI spout their false praise for the day, knee deep in their own complicity.
Posted by Hound No. 9
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
Sunday, May 16, 2010
The DI posted its “Top Ten issue."
Amusing was its section on the top ten crimes committed on campus . According to the DI, the highest occurring crime is theft. That sounds rather vague., Everyone by now knows, given the leadership and types in the university, administration, and the DI itself, the the most-often committed crime is bribery, corrupting, and fraud. Granted that White’s Global campus failure, and Ghosh’s scholarship deception might, on an intrinsic level, qualify as theft. Perhaps, the DI felt that fell under its umbrella category?
Interestingly, and probably to the DI’s great displeasure, sexual assault/rape did not make the list (basic assault did). This cannot be good for the DI-UI propaganda machine. What will Ross Wantland write about in the buzz now? Perhaps its because as they always claim that most sexual assaults go unreported? This would not come as any surprise, as there are many things that go unreported in the DI, like this and this (as well as several sexual assaults that the DI did not report, like this and this).
But never fear! There are ways to correct these problems when the facts and numbers come up short.
Posted by Hound No. 9
Amusing was its section on the top ten crimes committed on campus . According to the DI, the highest occurring crime is theft. That sounds rather vague., Everyone by now knows, given the leadership and types in the university, administration, and the DI itself, the the most-often committed crime is bribery, corrupting, and fraud. Granted that White’s Global campus failure, and Ghosh’s scholarship deception might, on an intrinsic level, qualify as theft. Perhaps, the DI felt that fell under its umbrella category?
Interestingly, and probably to the DI’s great displeasure, sexual assault/rape did not make the list (basic assault did). This cannot be good for the DI-UI propaganda machine. What will Ross Wantland write about in the buzz now? Perhaps its because as they always claim that most sexual assaults go unreported? This would not come as any surprise, as there are many things that go unreported in the DI, like this and this (as well as several sexual assaults that the DI did not report, like this and this).
But never fear! There are ways to correct these problems when the facts and numbers come up short.
Posted by Hound No. 9
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Another Crock with DeBrock
The News-Gazette breaks the most alarming news that one of B.J. White's most prominent toads has been elevated to Dean of the College of Business. This is Larry DeBrock.
DeBrock gained less than adequate scrutiny back in 2007, when he, in concert with a cabal of other members of White's praetorian guard conspired to destroy Rob Van Der Hooning.
In brief, Van Der Hooning had blown the whistle on the College of Business for its administrators' attempts to renege on promised Veteran's Scholarships for the college's MBA program. Van Der Hooning has filed suit against the University of Illinois for wrongfully terminating him after he revealed DeBrock, Avijit Ghosh, and David Ikenberry had forced him to cut back on the awards because there were "too many jar heads" in the program. The Court of Claims in Illinois denied the UI's motion to dismiss and five of six claims can go forward. For a better run down of the scandal, readers should seek here.
In a further taciturn admission of guilt, the White administrations put Ghosh on leave without pay, ostensibly to let him seek positions elsewhere. Perhaps White was whitewashing himself?
So in the N-G article, where does the joyous chorals of praise and laud come that gives the (scant) credence for DeBrock's promotion?
From DeBrock's co-conspirator Ikenberry himself.
Ikenberry ludicrously states at the end, "I can't think of a constituenty on the losing end of this appointment."
We can.
Posted by Alpha Hound
DeBrock gained less than adequate scrutiny back in 2007, when he, in concert with a cabal of other members of White's praetorian guard conspired to destroy Rob Van Der Hooning.
In brief, Van Der Hooning had blown the whistle on the College of Business for its administrators' attempts to renege on promised Veteran's Scholarships for the college's MBA program. Van Der Hooning has filed suit against the University of Illinois for wrongfully terminating him after he revealed DeBrock, Avijit Ghosh, and David Ikenberry had forced him to cut back on the awards because there were "too many jar heads" in the program. The Court of Claims in Illinois denied the UI's motion to dismiss and five of six claims can go forward. For a better run down of the scandal, readers should seek here.
In a further taciturn admission of guilt, the White administrations put Ghosh on leave without pay, ostensibly to let him seek positions elsewhere. Perhaps White was whitewashing himself?
So in the N-G article, where does the joyous chorals of praise and laud come that gives the (scant) credence for DeBrock's promotion?
From DeBrock's co-conspirator Ikenberry himself.
Ikenberry ludicrously states at the end, "I can't think of a constituenty on the losing end of this appointment."
We can.
Posted by Alpha Hound
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