Bigoted Ombudsmen
Lois Price-Spratlen (with Steven G Olswang and Alan S Meltzer)
This article raised considerable comment from readers both pro and con
when first published (6 June 96). They will appear in due course.
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Bigotry of any kind becomes an absolute and adverse dysfunction in any race or culture. It creates the political wedge that now exists between racial and ethnic groups. It polarizes both those who suffer reverse discrimination and those stigmatized by the quota systems used to enforce affirmative action programs. Consequently, corrupt university administrators and their sycophantic ombudsmen gain from the manipulation of mediation procedures and their clients, whatever their ethnic or racial denominations, lose.
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Mark A Emmert, University of Washington |
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The behavior of Lois Price-Spratlen, Ombudsman, University of Washington, and Alan S. Meltzer, Ombudsman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, exemplifies much of the abrogation, neglect, and exploitation of dispute resolution processes in academe. Moreover, the predicaments described epitomize the failure of many other dispute resolution procedures. The cases mentioned here derive from documented experiences by the author (RPI ten years and UW six years): they do not relate to hypothetical situations.
Names of perpetrators become relevant to disclosures; moreover, the revelations warn other non-traditional or ethnic students, and untenured faculty members, about these conspirators and the cover-ups that cause their victims to become scapegoats. Dispute resolution should begin with honest disclosure of facts, not subterfuge and cover-up. This requires discourse rather than a hypothetical disputation, revelation rather than political silence.
Contrived academic stereotypes lead one to believe that Jews and African-Americans understand bigotry and prejudice because of their own experiences. Most thinking people believe that they would not practice it themselves. Conversely, many "ethnic" academic ombudsman practice reverse discrimination spawned by political expedience and without any moral or ethical principles. They expect others to believe that they have experienced hardship and know much about bigotry and prejudice because of their race or culture. Apparently, they have obtained their positions because of their ethnic affiliations rather than on their merit.
In return for these lucrative positions, this type of ombudsman must give absolute allegiance to the ideology of totalitarian mentors. Moreover, absolute control over the functions of ethnic ombudsmen gives many university administrators the opportunity to propagandize their own "generosity" toward racial and ethnic minorities. More dangerously, it creates a jurisprudential illusion that allows them to manipulate and control the academic judicial process. This type of ombudsman epitomizes the temporal dualism and satanic majesty of a Mephistopheles rather than the singular ethics that the academic community expects from ombudsmen.
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The Jew, Gary Judd with his puppet Alan S Meltzer (RPI) and the African-American, Lois Price-Spratlen (UW), understand the power of bigotry and prejudice. Among the leading Mephistopheles residing in those two prestigious institutions, they know how to use their political power for their own ends and kiss the hand that feeds them despite laws to the contrary. Judd, Meltzer and Price-Spratlen as "ethnics" have received special privileges and employment as "justice" for the perceived bigotry and discrimination experienced by their ancestors. One cannot do justice to the dead; however, their descendants extort “reparations” to assuage their need for power and money by oppressing other ethnic groups.
The terms "justice" and "retribution" have very different meanings. Meltzer and Price-Spratlen have received their positions as retribution that causes them to ignore justice. They now, through institutional collusion, practice similar bigotry and discrimination to that suffered by their ancestors. They misuse their power as advocate, mediator, or arbitrator to achieve a special relationship between them and their clients. They then misuse this relationship to their personal advantage.
One may generally postulate that the unethical behavior exhibited by Meltzer and Price-Spratlen has nothing to do with their respective races. Neither does it relate to affirmative action nor equal opportunity. Instead, it relates only to the evil within their souls, self-aggrandizement, and material rewards. To their victims the suffering exists as a reality. Unfortunately, this type of behavior has become all too prevalent in the academe and increases daily.
Many ombudscammers develop recursive theories based upon dispute resolution through totalitarianism. They resolve disputes through mutually protective malfeasance and cover up. They censor open discourse to avoid disputation. They conspire to maintain political silence and then deny that the dispute ever existed. The silence dispenses with the need for resolution and they then declare resolution of the nonexistent dispute.
The effete among them close their portfolios, self-aggrandize, and write books about their successes. They tour various campuses to speak about their achievements and sign copies of the books that they have written. Their new found magnificence presents them with new challenges that they handle with similar censorship and stonewalling techniques. Meanwhile, any of their victims who complain, and do not use the vernacular of political correctness, receive derision and sentences of deposition unto death.
They continue to suffer, without end, and give their tormentors a lucrative income source in the hope of justice before bankruptcy. Therefore, readers may now begin to understand the necessity for heterodox means to counter the racial and ethnic orientation of dispute resolution administrators and ombudsmen in the academe. They may begin to understand the pragmatic aspects of this recursive theory.
Many victims undermine their own case by using epithets to describe other racial and ethnic groups. This type of language diminishes all of the groups and profits none. It plays into the hands of dishonest ombudsmen and aids their political machination within the political structure.
They use this type of language to create further polarization and to create additional academic instability and consolidate their own political control. They divide their multiethnic clientele to conquer them by blending both truth and lies: their clients listen to propaganda rather than advocacy. This diminishes everyone within those groups and exacerbates and perpetuates the historic ethnic and racial divisions. Injustice becomes egalitarian when humanity becomes diminished by propaganda and stereotypical exploitation.
Lois Price-Spratlen belongs to the University and College Ombuds Association, principally an international organization of persons who perform the ombuds function in universities and colleges. The Association recommends that ombudsmen have a conviction that the university system works best when honoring the rights and responsibilities of each member of the campus community. They also publish a list of ethical principles represented by the following extracts:
An ombudsman should act as independently as possible of all other offices and should avoid conflict of interest, external control, and either the reality or appearance of being compromised.
An ombudsman should be readily accessible to all members of the constituent community, should promote timely solutions to problems, and should avoid either the reality or appearance of bias toward any individual or group.
An ombudsman should treat with confidentiality all matters brought to him or her. No action should be taken on a complaint without the complainant's permission. . . .
An ombudsman should be guided by a concern for and [commitment] to justice. . . . An ombudsman's [commitment] to justice should include the understanding of power, identification of the use and misuse of power and authority . . .
Lois Price-Spratlen blatantly ignores all these principles: she knowingly acts to the contrary and prejudices her clients. William P Gerberding, President, University of Washington, through his "legal hit man" Steven G Olswang, condones her actions and denies due process on grievances that result from the damage that she causes.
The author has sent a copy of this column (with an offer to provide supporting evidence) to Dalene Hoppe, President, University and College Ombuds Association. He has requested her to initiate a full investigation (by the Association's ethics committee) into the unethical and illegal practices extant within the Office of the Ombudsman, University of Washington. They should probably also consider expulsion of Lois Price-Spratlen from the Association, both publicly and ignominiously, to protect their own ethical standing.
Nmesis.
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Paul Trummel PhD (RPI ABD), PhD (UW ABD), MS (RPI), MSc (UK), BSc (UK) Associate Professor, Communication and Rhetoric (Retired) International Federation of Journalists, Brussels (International Press Card)
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