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STEVE LEVICOFF as scholar? PFFT! - ham - 06-16-2009
http://www.degreediscussion.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6872
Deviant/pundit Levicoff arguing with another internet ghost named Rambo...hell, I thought Rambo was a steroid freak with facial paralysis spreading terror in the jungles of Vietnam...
http/www.straightwalk.com/resources/Resume.doc
Quote:Collapsing like a weeping child in my shower Christ at last became real to me, and I submitted my life to Him.
Is that a sort of homoerotic dream?
Quote:I remind you, kimosabe, that you are amongst many on this forum who know biblical theology out the proverbial wazoo. And compared to them, you are a rank amateur. In both senses - you are obviously an amateur, and you're pretty rank
Wow...
What's up this time?
No more seven figures income and glamorous jobs as nuclear surgeon?
Quote:Although I certainly do NOT claim to be any kind of theological superman, I do have some background. Tell me, how many theological articles have YOU published? Books? At what seminary do you teach at?
Wow...
is this Hubble addressing the Royal Academy...or middle schoolers on behaviour medications talking inches in the restroom?
Quote:I try to avoid ego games, though if I'm forced into one I generally do quite well.
Try to avoid?
PFFT!
Those are probably the highlights of his life...what's there beside this? Chatting up hot boys and asking them to meet in the bathroom? Parking the truck? Pardon...'working in the transportation industry'? Hell, most people (me included) have bleak, normal lives, but at least they won't get into all this self-aggrandizing delusion...
Quote:Articles? Let's see . . . Christian Education Journal, Evangelical Journal, Christian Counseling Today, and Christian Century are a few that come to mind off the top of my head.
What seminary (did I teach at)?
Hmm...
If you search google scholar, you'll get about 2 hits for some S. Levicoff
Quote:[BOOK] Christian counseling and the law
S Levicoff - 1991 - Chicago: Moody Press
[BOOK] The New Song of Shiloh: An Historical, Legal, and Theological Exploration of a Indigenous Prison …
SF Levicoff - 1991 - Union Institute (so-called 'doctoral dissertation)
and a couple 'spot a degree mill' hits from some unknown site/forum...
So if we remove the so-called 'doctoral dissertation', google scholar indexes only ONE book (probably self published ).
So little Bubba dropped his pants in the restroom to amaze his middle school mates, but as usual it doesn't amount to much, if anything at all...
Quote:Dude, I said you were a rank amateur, and you have proved it. I also noted that you hadn't done your research, and you've more than confirmed it here. You could have found out those things about me with a simple Internet search.
That is what I did, and I am not impressed at all...another deviant with self-esteem issues dreaming away at the keyboard...oh, probably it's google scholar's fault...ah, those homophobes, eh?
Oh, wait...you meant you are a though guy not to mess with, eh Steve? Aaah, I see...
I am also curious to hear how doctor
Levicoff reconciles his homosexuality with the Christian faith he happens to be in this semester...or with the Jewish faith of his past...Oh well, another feud between online personalities...smoke, mirrors and then some more smoke...
RE: STEVE LEVICOFF as scholar? PFFT! - Armando Ramos - 06-17-2009
If I remember the story correctly, Levicoff is a Jew who got butt-raped at a black Christian church, and then (for that or some other reason) decided to start calling himself a Christian.
Obviously he has a grudge against Christians and has done his best to undermine and destroy private Christian education. He is just one of a number of socialists who want the government to control all higher education, just as they want them to control e.g., the auto industry, the health care industry, the insurance industry, the banking industry, etc.
The fact is this guy is topical to distance learning only because he is such a complete fucking joke. He got college course credit at TESC for being a homo. Is there really anything more ludicrous? This kind of ridiculous crap has done more to marginalize true distance learning than to help it. I'm sure he'd be in the Hall of Shame here if he wasn't so completely irrelevant.
RE: STEVE LEVICOFF as scholar? PFFT! - Herbert Spencer - 06-17-2009
Armando Ramos Wrote:If I remember the story correctly, Levicoff is a Jew who got butt-raped at a black Christian church, and then (for that or some other reason) decided to start calling himself a Christian.
Levicoff's religious beliefs seem as questionable as his sexuality, not to mention his humanity:
SteveLevicoff Wrote:Speaking of which . . .http://www.degreeinfo.com/showpost.php?s=945844512c4ebf086a1114e26e823625&p=63971&postcount=30
I hear that Hitler once paid a surprise visit to Himmler. Himmler exclaimed, "Adolf! If I knew you were coming, I would have baked a kike!"
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(Yes, I can tell that joke - I'm Jewish. Next week: Jokes about black storefront church pastors with bogus degrees.)
Armando Ramos Wrote:He got college course credit at TESC for being a homo.
In his own words, Bear's pervert poster boy for short cuts and hornswoggling the system:
http://books.google.com/books?id=k67XC_7y5xEC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=%22Society+%26+Sexual+Variations%22&source=bl&ots=PTR1byUibo&sig=AHFR6-J5HAj72C-cX41sbVk_FRA&hl=en&ei=vDs4SoiiC4TosQO-25n-Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3#PPA85,M1
Do you think that's how Gus got his 110-day wonder too?
RE: STEVE LEVICOFF as scholar? PFFT! - ham - 06-17-2009
I notice that Levicoff takes notice of this thread, but by sheer chance fails to address the fact that his supposedly numerous SCHOLARLY publications do not seem to appear on google scholar...
Great job, Steve...
Second, he seems to object to the fact that I am "one"...well, of course...
You know, pulling the strings of numerous aliases or bringing friends on board like deranged middle schoolers do...not my bit, but you are doing well, Steve...you sound bigger than life...Gay Jew turned Christian theologian...great...
Third...tall claims beg to be investigated, Steve...
Don't go around telling people you are a prolific, published scholar if YOU KNOW people won't find anything to the effect but thousands of posts on crummy forums in the company of gay teen pornographers, financial frauds, millists and other psychotherapy rejects...common sense...
RE: STEVE LEVICOFF as scholar? PFFT! - Vice - 07-15-2009
ham Wrote:I notice that Levicoff takes notice of this thread, but by sheer chance fails to address the fact that his supposedly numerous SCHOLARLY publications do not seem to appear on google scholar...
Great job, Steve...
Second, he seems to object to the fact that I am "one"...well, of course...
You know, pulling the strings of numerous aliases or bringing friends on board like deranged middle schoolers do...not my bit, but you are doing well, Steve...you sound bigger than life...Gay Jew turned Christian theologian...great...
Third...tall claims beg to be investigated, Steve...
Don't go around telling people you are a prolific, published scholar if YOU KNOW people won't find anything to the effect but thousands of posts on crummy forums in the company of gay teen pornographers, financial frauds, millists and other psychotherapy rejects...common sense...
I would agree with your view on Levicoff as a scholar - the publications of him I could trace in the internet do not point to him as a "scholar". I cannot say anything about his degrees but simply a degree alone does not make one a scholar. He is known for posting extremely unbalanced and hateful posts ad degreediscussion.com which is another point to doubt his profile as a a "scholar". By that alone, he is certainly not a "prolific, published scholar". Otherwise, his various forum contributions would be very much different from what they are.
I am from Germany and was born and raised there in the post World War II period (my age is 59 years by now). Germany is a country that has a very strong historical burden in the persecution of Jewish people and other minorities during the terrible Nazi period. So, I wish to state very clearly that the Jewishness of Levicoff should not play any role in consideration of that of what he is doing. I would take him as a human being like anyone else and consider his person and actions merely as such. That`s about all that I could say in his "favour".
From a European perspective, it is certainly not wrong to insist on more general regulations regarding distance learning in the USA. The US system is one based on the assumption on individual freedom but if that "freedom" goes that far to harm other people and their good rights under the same system, then there must be some regulations to keep the balance. I would not blame Levicoff for that either. And in Europe, such a position would hardly be considered "socialist".
The only problem is that Levicoff does not seem to be a very credible advocator of the points he makes - too much zealotry, hardly any good reason (rational elements), and truthfulness in his posts. He also seems to display some personality traits that make him as human as anyone else -
he is intolerant and calls other people all to quickly "wazoos", "shysters", etc. , and he even doubts the right of new posters to a forum to offer their opinions (his response to a preacher from Texas was " another new wazoo here who thinks he needs to post here" (this quote is as far as I can remember it) that he claims for himself. Not a very nice, trustworthy, genuine and balanced person that would be easy to get along with and whose language is insulting, offending with opinions more than often not too rational - but all this has got nothing to do with his Jewishness or what else he may be; they are the personality traits of an imperfect human being as we all are.
RE: STEVE LEVICOFF as scholar? PFFT! - Little Arminius - 07-16-2009
Armando Ramos Wrote:Obviously he has a grudge against Christians and has done his best to undermine and destroy private Christian education. He is just one of a number of socialists who want the government to control all higher education, just as they want them to control e.g., the auto industry, the health care industry, the insurance industry, the banking industry, etc.
Steve Levicoff is unique, I'll give him that. He's also a hypocrite so don't be suprised to find out that while he wants the government heavily involved with most aspects of American life, he is opposed to excessive regulation in the trucking industry.
Quote:The fact is this guy is topical to distance learning only because he is such a complete fucking joke. He got college course credit at TESC for being a homo. Is there really anything more ludicrous? This kind of ridiculous crap has done more to marginalize true distance learning than to help it. I'm sure he'd be in the Hall of Shame here if he wasn't so completely irrelevant.
How many credits did he get? I wonder what the over/under is before Michael Gates and pugbelly at DI will tout this as a great way to scam credits, maybe even better than FEMA?
RE: STEVE LEVICOFF as scholar? PFFT! - Vice - 07-16-2009
Little Arminius Wrote:Steve Levicoff is unique, I'll give him that. He's also a hypocrite so don't be suprised to find out that while he wants the government heavily involved with most aspects of American life, he is opposed to excessive regulation in the trucking industry.
Well, why should not he be opposed to regulation in the trucking industry if it is true that he hangs around trick stops for homo contacts?
For sure, he is a hypocrite.
How many credits did he get? I wonder what the over/under is before Michael Gates and pugbelly at DI will tout this as a great way to scam credits, maybe even better than FEMA?
Is it the assertion true that Union Institute is known for light-weight doctorates where Levicoff graduated from? Do you know whether the oral defense of doctoral theses is included in the graduation requirements at Union Institute? Seems that Levicoff "bought" a favour
from them.
Text in bold above is mine.
RE: STEVE LEVICOFF as scholar? PFFT! - Little Arminius - 07-18-2009
Vice Wrote:Is it the assertion true that Union Institute is known for light-weight doctorates where Levicoff graduated from? Do you know whether the oral defense of doctoral theses is included in the graduation requirements at Union Institute? Seems that Levicoff "bought" a favour
from them.
According to Dr. Levicoff, when he was a doctoral student with Union he had a real doctoral committee and a permanent graduate faculty member as his doctoral advisor. I don't know if he has ever disclosed if there was an oral defense or not. However, I would be inclined to think that there was (though I don't know for sure) since Union required some trips to their campus by graduate students during that time period.
Shortly after Lev received his PhD and before he started driving a truck professionally, Rich Douglas entered a doctoral program at Union. Levicoff has continuously derided Douglas' PhD on the grounds that Union had relaxed their standards, to wit they allowed Douglas to select a non-academic (John Bear) to be on his doctoral committee and permitted him to continue on using research he had conducted for a dissertation elsewhere. Levicoff claims that this arrangement is highly unusual and he probably has a point there.
RE: STEVE LEVICOFF as scholar? PFFT! - Albert Hidel - 04-18-2011
Does "Levicoff" really exist?? I think he is a figment of Klempner's once creative but now increasingly senile mind. Perhaps a composite character created to illustrate how even the lowest degenerate could con his way past the academic gatekeepers with hot air and deviance.
He is like the "Tuttle" character in the TV show MASH ("There's a little bit of Tuttle left in all of us--in fact, you might say that all of us together made up Tuttle.") Or more likely, the Lieutenant Kijé character in Russian literature. Or even "Comrade Ogilvy" in Orwell's 1984.
The "truck driver" story allows anyone to post as "Levicoff" from any computer anywhere, and explain the odd ISP as simply part of being "on the road."
Consider this:
1997, "Sgt. William Schumann," Wag the Dog--Psych patient in a military hospital for raping a nun, allegedly a war hero rescued from the Albanians.
1997, "Dr. Steve Levicoff," AED--Allegedly earned college credit for playing his guitar and having gay sex.
Coincidence?? Ha!
RE: STEVE LEVICOFF as scholar? PFFT! - ham - 04-19-2011
Quote:Does "Levicoff" really exist? I think he is a figment of Klempner's once creative but now increasingly senile mind. Perhaps a composite character created to illustrate how even the lowest degenerate could con his way past the academic gatekeepers with hot air and deviance.
Most of those online pundits resemble the iffy characters of the mainstream sit-com or telepicture junk: weird but at the same time trying to look greater than life...while nobody really understands what the f ck they are up to, seriously...