Big Mama and the Seven Leprechauns - Dedication
Exposé on Academic Corruption and Denial of Human Rights
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY and University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Compromised principles for personal gain and academic advantage without merit.
Contra Cabal has blossomed into an exposé of size and force thanks to myriad intellectual dwarfs. Therefore, Nmesis decided to dedicate the launch of this new web site entitled Contra Cabal - Whores of Academe to Big Mama [1] and the leprechauns [2] at several universities, in particular:
Richard Scott Neel,
formerly Associate Dean, College of Education,
now Director, Experimental Education Unit
and
Mark A. Emmert, President, University of Washington
also
C. Lee Odell, formerly Professor, Language, Literature, and Communication,
now Associate Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences (RPI)
and
Shirley Ann Jackson, President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Dereliction by successive Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and University of Washington (UW) presidents and administrators called for an electronic magazine independent of the university that carried details of academic impropriety. Machiavellian behavior has suggested theses which have resulted in dozens of articles that expose malevolence with many more pieces in preparation.
Contra Cabal responds to the need by exposing the unswerving moral turpitude, ethical ambivalence, and unlawful artfulness of Neel, Odell, their deans, and other administrators. It also exposes the unlawful actions which Emmert and Jackson have condoned through willful blindness.
They have all given the author a reason to return to his former profession as a journalist by maliciously ending his academic career: a career started in London’s Fleet Street during George Orwell’s time. This move to a potentially higher calling could not have taken place without the hubris of equivocating Big Mamas, academic leprechauns and Orwellian inspiration.
Richard S. Neel (UW) and C. Lee Odell (RPI), used interstate and inter-university academic blackballing and discrimination to conduct a vicious and unending years-long campaign of abuse. That abuse ended this British author’s diverse sixty-year employment which ranged from apprentice to CEO to university professor/administrator with many accolades and publications recorded in a 50-page CV. [Curriculum Vitae]
That record of achievement by a professor many years their senior, with hundreds of publications to his credit, apparently intimidated Neel and Odell (and other leprechauns). Their xenophobia increased over the years as they recklessly committed criminal acts, engaged in agism, and denied constitutional and human rights. They covered up prior restraint and censorship and misused their power to support their contentions by repeatedly discrediting the author’s credentials despite verification by other universities and an agency recognized by US Department of Education. [Arbitrary and Capricious Evaluation]
Incredibly, university administrators destroyed or altered university records to support propaganda. After a nine-month investigation, an attorney appointed by American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recommended civil and human rights action which an ACLU committee approved and US Department of Education verified.
UW attorneys had those proceedings unlawfully and covertly quashed. When the author travelled to RPI campus from Washington for a scheduled appointment to discuss outstanding issues, Odell and other faculty members had the author frisked and placed under campus arrest for four days on trumped-up charges. Presumably, or perhaps understandably given the history of their unlawful acts, they feared for their safety. [Kafkaesque Scenario]
Instead of using lawful procedures to mediate and correct legitimate issues, they used censorship, prior restraint, denial of computer access, and unlawful arrest. They also expropriated research and databases while the author, a professor and retired CEO worked on a Special Doctor of Philosophy (SPhD) degree at UW and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at Rensselaer to support administrative ideology and in attempts to prevent exposure.
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Mark A. Emmert, University of Washington |
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Both universities made frivolous claims of rules infraction to deny computer access and to prevent publication of exposé. Ronald A. Johnson, Vice President, Computing and Communications, UW, and his team, arbitrarily destroyed or misappropriated computer programs and databases that contained intellectual property. They hacked into computer systems by colluding with ISP employees and caused extensive damage and repeated computer crashes.
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.
Both Shirley Ann Jackson, President, RPI, and Mark A. Emmert, President, UW, ignored requests for due process required by university regulations. By that, they denied due process of law on grievances that ranged from prior restraint and intentional harassment to age and gender discrimination. They also neglected to investigate charges of prior restraint, theft of intellectual property, transcript forgery, and false arrest.
Prior restraint applies to the denial of the First Amendment right of a journalist/professor/public intellectual (or anyone else for that matter) to gather and publish information or opinions without institutional control or fear of reprisal. US Constitution establishes limits to the power of institutions. It denies university presidents the power arbitrarily to deprive others of their constitutional and human rights. Such arrogance manifests the quintessence of academic totalitarianism at both these universities. [Preliminary Injunction]
Dedication to Big Mama and the Seven Leprechauns
Custom requires that those who want the favor of hubristic academic princes offer to them their most valuable possessions. These princes receive costly gifts worthy of their greatness. The gifts include academic tenure, department chairs, deanships, presidencies, named professorships, federal grants, inflated salaries, bribes, and especially sycophancy. Accordingly, I wish to give you all a token of my homage. Fortunately, I have discovered a gift among my possessions that I prize more than the recognition of pandering graduate students.
The gift comprises the knowledge gained from sixty years publishing experience and a continuing study of both classical and modern satire. I have condensed this knowledge, with great diligence, into a series of essays entitled Whores of Academe.
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I now dedicate them to each of you as the most deserving among academic princes. Although, as the humblest of persons you have labeled me, I deem my work unworthy of your narcissism; nonetheless I have confidence that it will attract your attention. I can offer you no more than the means to grasp all that I have learned during so many years of privation and frustration.
I use the plain style that instructs without extrinsic ornament. Other writers embellish their writing ornamentally but I do not need the applause that they seek from using those rhetorical devices. I wish my readers to judge my work only upon its truthfulness and the seriousness of its topics.
A person of low station, I ask with humility that you forgive me for venturing into your hallowed realm of the academe. Especially, I ask forgiveness for presumptuously discoursing about academic cabals and their princes. However, lowly people believe that to have a clear notion of princes they must acquire princely knowledge.
From that knowledge lowly people learn that self-venerated princes eventually belong to them. From their life-experience low in the valley they have studied the mountain. They have also climbed the mountain to gain a greater perspective of themselves. Then they studied your academic career and publications (or lack of them) to gain a better perspective of you. Many do not possess the princely knowledge claimed which gives people with humility power over them.
Therefore, please accept this plethora of rhetorical gifts in the spirit that I present them to you. If you will diligently read and consider them you will understand my desire for you to attain the level of eminence that your merit deserves.
When you eventually fall from the height of your greatness, turn your eyes to humbler regions. You will then realize how undeservedly your subjects have endured your keen and unremitting malignity. You will find that retribution occurs swiftly and suddenly. [3]
References
1. Big Mama. The politically correct president of a large and prestigious university who strives to restrict politically sensitive writing. The term “Big Mama” characterizes totalitarian university government which censors speech protected by the First Amendment to the US Constitution. Originally the name given to Internet censors in the People's Republic of China, it also applies to the wife of the eldest uncle who in traditional Chinese practice takes care of the family. Also defined as a parody on Big Brother the omnipresent leader of a totalitarian state in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four.
2. Leprechaun. A mischievous, treasure-hoarding, hard-drinking, Irish intellectual dwarf. A violent creature who uses his Machiavellian power to harm anyone and anything that comes in between him and his precious gold obtained by academic fraud and urinating on a four-leaf clover. A native of Ireland, this bastard son of a shoe-making elf, dresses in emerald green with red and gold or purple and gold accouterments.
3. Niccolo Machiavelli (translated by N. H. Thompson), The Prince (New York, NY: P. F. Collier & Son), 1910, also Niccolo Machiavelli and Anthony J. Pansini (trans), Niccolo Machiavelli and the USA (Greenvale, NY: Greenvale Press), 1969.
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