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Grünewald Paradigm: Preamble |
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Special PhD Program, University of Washington Grünewald Paradigm received peer-review by the author's PhD dissertation advisor and approval of the chair of his doctoral committee at University of Washington. He researched the Isenheim Altarpiece in Colmar, France; studied the typographic connection at Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany; developed Bauhaus concepts connected with modern graphic design at Bauhaus-Archive Museum of Design, Berlin, Germany, then completed the dissertation at St. Deiniol's Residential Library, North Wales, UK. Special Doctor of Philosophy Committee Chair The late William D. Winn PhD approved the dissertation as Chair of the SPhD Doctoral Committee. During his cooperation with the author on three dissertations and many other papers, he occupied positions at University of Washington as: Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, (Secondary Appointment in Educational Psychology, 1989 to present), College of Education; Adjunct Professor of Technical Communication, College of Engineering; Adjunct Professor of Music; and, Director, Learning Center, Human Interface Technology Laboratory, Washington Technology Center. Doctoral Dissertation Advisor Chiyo L. Ishikawa PhD, Deputy Director of Art, Seattle Art Museum supervised the preparation and writing of the dissertation as faculty advisor while adjunct faculty in Northern European painting at the University of Washington’s History of Art Department. Ishikawa continues to teach graduate seminars at UW on museum studies using SAM’s collection. While working towards a PhD in art history at Bryn Mawr College, she held NEA-supported internships at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Opera I played the Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) masterpiece, Mathis der Maler (1938 Matthias the Painter) with music and libretto based on the life of Matthias Grünewald who died in 1528, to launch the dissertation Grünewald Paradigm at International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Palazzo delle Facoltà umanistiche University of Turin, Turin, Italy (21–24 July, 1993). I felt it appropriate to use the music to demonstrate the kinetographic significance of modern communication. In the 1920s, Hindemith gained recognition as a major composer. In 1934 his work was banned by the government of Adolf Hitler because of its extreme modernism. Consequently, Mathis der Maler (which you hear as you read this dissertation) had its first performance at Zurich’s Stadtheater. Hindemith then went to Turkey to reorganize the national musical studies program. In 1921 Hindemith helped organize the famous Amar-Hindemith Quartet, in which he played the viola. He also taught in the United States and in Switzerland. One of the most important figures in 20th-century music, and an influential teacher. Hindemith was born in Hanau. From 1915 to 1923 he was concertmaster and then conductor of the Frankfurt Opera orchestra. As a composer, Hindemith faced a void left by the dissolution of traditional approaches to musical structure. He also wrote symphonies, sonatas, concertos, chamber music, vocal pieces, and works for the viola. He advocated "music for use," and sought to establish closer contacts between the composer and the public by creating work to be performed by school groups and amateurs. Fellowship - St. Deiniol's Library I received one of the very few fellowships granted by St. Deiniol's Residential Library predicated upon the original draft for Grünewald Paradigm and recommendations by: Richard Paul PhD, Director, Center for Critical Thinking, Sonoma State University, California; Peter Raible PhD, Pastor, University Unitarian Church, Seattle, Washington; and, William D. Winn, Director, Learning Center, Human Interface Technology Laboratory, Washington Technology Center, University of Washington. During my residency at the Gladstone library, and as a Gladstone admirer, I completed this dissertation using the unique reference facilities. St. Deiniol's, a unique institution, comprises Britain's only residential library. It was founded by the great Victorian statesman, William Ewart Gladstone and, following his death in 1898, became the nation's tribute to his life and work. Born in Liverpool, four times prime minister of Great Britain and elected to Parliament in 1832 with the Tory Party, Gladstone helped reform that party into the Conservative Party that year. Throughout the 1830s Gladstone opposed almost all reform. In the 1840s and 1850s his views changed from conservative to liberal, and in 1859 he joined the Liberal Party. In his first ministry, from 1868 to 1874, Gladstone implemented many reforms. One of his most significant acts was to create a national elementary education program for all children. His government made major reforms in the justice system, making the central courts more efficient; in the civil service, basing employment on merit; and in the military, abolishing the purchase of army commissions. Another major policy was his effort to find a solution in Ireland, where the Irish demanded their independence from British rule. Gladstone disestablished the Anglican church in Ireland, no longer forcing Irish Catholics to pay taxes to support the Anglican church. He also added protection for tenants by requiring that landlords pay compensation for evictions. A lifelong student and scholar, as well as a voracious reader and collector of books, Gladstone built up a remarkable personal library reflecting the wide range of interests of a true Victorian polymath. Books acquired at Eton followed and the collection grew during his time at Christ Church, Oxford where he achieved a double first in classics and mathematics with another first in history, one of his passions. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and University of Washington sabotaged publication of this doctoral dissertation. In consort, they devised and implemented a malicious policy of academic sabotage. “Academic sabotage” defines as purposeful vandalism directed against any academic endeavor: impeding individual or group efforts; stealing written material, laboratory or field experiments, or equipment used in teaching or research; tampering with computer programs or systems; destroying computer files; crashing or attempting to crash computer systems; causing atypical computer behavior; and, infecting systems with viruses, worms, time bombs, trap doors, Trojan horses, or any other kind of invasive program.
Academic work came to an abrupt halt due to destruction, unlawful alteration, or withholding of databases and other records by both universities during 1980s and 1990s. Transcript forgery covered up multiple fraudulent activity and other criminal acts by university administrators and faculty members. Concerted xenophobia by Camillus Lee Odell (RPI) and Richard S. Neel (UW) increased over the years as they repeatedly committed criminal acts, engaged in agism, and denied constitutional and human rights. Repeated harassment by pathological liars and professional manipulators, many of whom had no valid credentials for the administrative positions they held, construed as criminal activity. Fantastic as these allegations may sound, one must remember that one deals with intellectual midgets who follow anarchist policies. They have no morals or ethics and, consequently, do not care about state or federal law. Instead of adhering to academic procedures and maintaining the integrity and ethics of academic standards, they used their perceived authority or power to intimidate, humiliate, and coerce which in an academic environment classifies as unlawful harassment. Academic harassment defines as behavior that: intends to unreasonably interfere with an individual’s educational performance both on or off campus; distributes verbal, written or electronic communication with intent to annoy; causes unlawful arrest; creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive classroom environment; directs personally offensive remarks with intent to demean, belittle, or cause personal humiliation or embarrassment in public; and, threatens, intimidates, or coerces. Case studiesl show a pattern or practice of harassment by faculty members and administrators that includes all of these dysfunctional or abusive behaviors.
Grünewald Paradigm forms part of a body of work compiled during more than two decades of doctoral research. The data resided on mainframe computers at Rensselaer (RPI) and University of Washington (UW) as text and graphics until S. Michael Halloran (RPI) ordered removal of computer access and Ronald A. Johnson, Vice President, and Sandra S. Moy, Chief Operating Officer, Computing and Communications, UW, arbitrarily destroyed or misappropriated computer databases that contained intellectual property. They expropriated research databases while the author, a former professor and retired CEO, worked on a Special Doctor of Philosophy (SPhD) degree at UW and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at Rensselaer, probably to support administrative ideology and to prevent exposure. Due to the small capacity of personal computer hard drives and accessories of that era, no independent backup data exists. Johnson and Moy destroyed or misappropriated database illustrations and text after the author traveled to Colmar, France to study the Isenheim Altarpiece. A thief stole a series of slides containing similar graphic information and the final hard copies of the three dissertations stored in three binders from an apartment in Seattle. The apartment contained myriad other documents, stone lithographs and original art worth thousands of dollars; however, the thief stole only the three binders containing the dissertations. One can only surmise that theft related to the cover up of unlawful activity at UW. Reconstructed databases containing all of the required work for two PhD degrees (all of it published and most of it peer-reviewed) will appear in due course. See also: [Dissertation Trilogy]
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Associate Professor, Communication and Rhetoric (Retired) International Federation of Journalists, Brussels (International Press Card) |
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