See the following articles on this CREEP.
Update 11/11 - the mastermind of this scheme got a $339,000 job by pal-crony Joseph White, President of University of Illinois, to run Technology and Economic Development WHILE HE LOOKS FOR A JOB. Ghosh interviewed for jobs outside University of Illinois and the story followed him to Michigan. See this link
Back to DeBrock - who compares soldiers and his own faculty to hookers.
See http://marathonpundit. Blogspot.com_05_01_archive.html
"And now we turn to part three.
Too many jarheads will bias the class demographic.
That alleged statement has bothered me from day one of this story. Either it was said or not said. There is no middle ground. On one hand, Robert van der Hooning, the former Assistant Dean for the University of Illinois College of Business in Chicago, charges the term "jarheads" was used often and in a disparaging way.
On the other hand, and on multiple occasions, the U of I has denied that College of Business Dean Avijit Ghosh, Associate Dean Larry DeBrock and Department of Finance Chair David Ikenberry ever called veterans "jarheads."
Ironically, while nobody at the U of I has come up with a plausible explanation about why some "quick-admit" veterans were quickly "un-admitted, " then quickly "re-admitted, " during the time the B-school was actively recruiting non-veteran students, university public relations officials have vehemently and repeatedly denied the "jarhead" slur:
I know they do not speak that way" (Associated Press)
"... Allegations are ridiculous to the point of absurdity. Especially egregious are the alleged quotes from College administrators (College of Business website)
"I can't believe anybody who works for this university in responsible roles like the ones he described would make such a comment." (ABC 7 Chicago)
Evidently, U of I officials feel such insensitive and ugly language would never be uttered by senior college administrators. Only a cheap-shot artist, such as the now unemployed Imus, would say something like that. Senior college officials—deans, associate deans and department chairmen wouldnt speak that way. It's ridiculous to think otherwise. Nobody at the University in such a responsible role would ever use language like that. Right? University public relations officials even lashed out against the university's de facto newspaper, the Daily Illini, for running a 2-part story on the scandal and reporting administrators use of the slur, "jarhead."
As Shakespeare wrote hundreds of years ago, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." - Hamlet (III, ii, 239)
A shocking and highly disturbing email uncovered by Marathon Pundit paints a starkly different picture of the real environment and Imus language used by senior administrators at the College. Just after the veteran scholarship program was launched, Associate Dean Larry DeBrock, who was responsible for academic affairs and faculty staffing, referred to his own colleagues in email as "hookers" and "high-priced hookers" while personally agreeing to teach additional classes in Chicago if he was paid well enough.
DeBrock writes:
So, if you are telling folks they need to drive 3.5 hours teach 3 hours, and drive back 3.5 hours, they need (to be) compensated. And your 37.5 is nice compensation. But, high priced hookers are still hookers. But, BUT, B U T, if you bring in 70 students and the college nets 3.5 million, the hookers are praised as soldiers. They are cheered by smiling faculty waving UIUC flags lining the roadside while they ride back into town.
Perhaps Imus has a brother in Champaign—Larry DeBrock.
If the asociate dean for academic affairs the one who authored the letter to rescind veterans' admission to the MBA program and forged van der Hoonings signature last Memorial Day writes about his own colleagues as "high priced hookers, " how much of a stretch is it to imagine he would refer to veterans as "jarheads?"
I have one question for Professor DeBrock: How about lining the streets and waving US flags for our soldiers and veterans instead on Memorial Day.
I have another question for the university: How do you feel about having Dean Imus on your faculty?
Veterans screwed again on veterans day 2007
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