Thursday, August 24, 2006

Grade Gate! Auburn U. Style!

"If you turned in something you got an A."

"If you turned in nothing you got a B."

Professor James Gundlach of Auburn University, describing Professor Thomas Petee, head of sociology.

Grade Gate! UTEP Style!

"Is your name so and so? It is?"

"No need to come to class any more. You just made an A."

UTEP Specialty Team member quoting UTEP professor Peter Golding. University 2350, Summer of 2003.

Mr. Robert Stull's link to Dr. Peter Golding:

For UTEP's Grade Gate?

Try UTEP Dean of Engineering Dr. Barry Benedict.

Dean Benedict: $161,000 in 2004-2005

Dr. Peter Golding: $64,216 in 2004-2005

"Poor, poor, 'ickle Petey: he needs his pocket money!"

MORE DR. GOLDING sections at risk for UTEP throwaway grades, whether for fun alone, or for extra cash:

Dr. Peter Golding's more recent problematical schedules include: section 32778 University 2350, Summer 2006, and the following sections for Fall 2006: section 15952 University 2350; section 10931 MASE 6301; section 15090 ESE 6396; section 12120 ESE 6396; section 13443 ESE 6398; section 15083 ESE 6399.


"Auburn Prepares for Post-Scandal Football Season"

NPR - National Public Radio
In: All things considered
Date: August 24, 2006
Web: www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5703951

"Being a whistle-blower at a top football university is tough. Fans don't want to hear about academic problems that could hurt the team or lead to NCAA sanctions. But professor James Gundlach, who teaches in the sociology department, decided to speak up after he noticed that several football players who were taking his major had never been to a class."

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Excerpt: Day of the Ly'in Hos, the University of Texas at El Paso Story

"I'll say this for one Mr. Andrew Bolt, those Australian reporters have a whimsical sense of humour all too often rare in their American counterparts. When forwarding my email to him at BoltA@heraldsun.com.au of Tuesday, April 27, 2004 to one Allison Harding, at allison.harding@adm.monash.edu.au -- with the subject listed like this: fake academic? -- one Mr. Bolt played it low, flat and cool.

Allison,

I hope you're well and blooming, Allison. But just in case you need some light relief, I'm passing on an email I got this morning from a desperate student in El Paso who is wondering whether he's been taught by a flake or a fake from Monash. Is there any way to check whether you do indeed have a 1987 PhD graduate called Peter Golding?

Andrew Bolt

But! Down Under the women are every bit as unflappable as the men, as the following reply makes clear:

Hello Andrew,

Hope all's well with you and Sally.

Re your query - I checked with our alumni office and Peter Golding holds a BSc(Hons)1977 and a PhD in Physics 1982.

Cheers, Allison

"It was now time for Mr. Bolt to pass all this along to yours truly with a handsome note of apology:

It pains me to say, given your description of his teaching, that Mr. Golding is indeed a genuine example of an Australian PhD graduate.

I don't know of his subsequent academic career, but did receive this from Monash University: [As cited above! dpm]

"And, yet, did Mr. Andrew Bolt leave it at that? Could it be that at this point our scene shifts to a a modest building near the middle of Canberra, the Australian Capitol, at 68 Northbourne Avenue? Perhaps the monitors for a Special Intelligence Section of the Australian Federal Police (AFPs, for short) get their own email transmission, or better yet maybe even a phone call at Tel. (02) 6233 3000 from some well-known Aussie reporter, most likely acting at his own behest as yours truly wouldn't have been able to do zip. So, who knows?

"Because in any case a few days later an odd and quite possibly unrelated activity is observed taking place at UTEP.

"An official-looking vehicle pulls up with a flourish to the side of Hawthorn Street, right in front of the green and white sign that reads BIKE ROUTE, and near a wide opening flanked by two vitex bushes and two more signs indicating Pedestrian Traffic Only. This would lead the cars occupants in a downward slant to the UTEP School of Engineering, where one Dr. Peter Golding might be assumed to have his office.

"Like something out of the famous short story, Incident at Owl Creek, a big man jumps out of the driver's side and strides purposefully forward, trailed by two other individuals. But this man is not a Northern scout, like in the story. But for the likes of UTEPs Dr. Peter Golding he has the potential for being equally lethal.

"As it is, he is dressed head to toe in black. No, to be sure, this man is not a Northern scout. Because here in El Paso that uniform on the UTEP campus can mean one thing and one thing only. The big man is a Texas Precinct Constable.

"And he is on professional business within the scope and purpose of his job as a top law enforcement officer..."

"¡Ora, UTEP!" "¡Ora, MEChA!"

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