Gay Al & Gollin Partner Up

[Albert Hidel]

I see Gay Al's name is first.  I wonder how they decided who got to be on top?

Change
The Magazine of Higher Learning
March-April 2009
The Real and the Fake: Degree and Diploma Mills
by Alan Contreras and George Gollin

The recent release of a list of over 9,000 people who bought degrees from St. Regis “University” has helped bring into focus a problem that legitimate institutions like to ignore: An enormous number of people who could be getting real college credentials are buying degree- and diploma-mill ones instead. This causes damage that goes beyond the obvious one of unfair competition. Such degrees introduce counterfeit currency into the market and call into question the value of the genuine thing.

Degree Mills in the United States
Let’s begin our discussion of this problem with a detour into terminology. What are the differences between degree mills, diploma mills, and legitimate colleges?
The terms “diploma mill” and “degree mill” are often used interchangeably, but in fact most experts consider them to have different meanings:

• A degree mill provides a “real” degree from a fake college.
• A diploma mill provides a fake degree from a real college.

In other words, there are two snakes in the pit. In the first half of this article, I will focus on degree mills and their near neighbors, legally operating but unaccredited colleges; George Gollin will discuss international diploma mills in the next section.

What makes a degree valid
Under U.S. law, there are only three sources for the authority to issue college degrees: Congress, a sovereign Indian tribe, or a state government. Accreditation is voluntary, while approval from one of these sources is mandatory. (Note: Federal law requires that for its students to be eligible for federal financial aid, a school must have both state approval and accreditation; one cannot subsume the other. And state approval comes first. Because it is a mandatory prerequisite for accreditation, accreditors are required by federal law to obtain proof that colleges have state approval when they apply for accreditation, including renewals.)



Alan Contreras has served as the administrator of the Oregon Office of Degree Authorization (ODA), a unit of the Oregon Student Assistance Commission, since 1999. Prior to coming to ODA, he worked for the University of Oregon, the Oregon Community College Association, and the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education. He is a noted author of bird books, and his essays on education topics appear frequently in the Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Education. George Gollin is a professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research in experimental elementary particle physics focuses on the nature and origins of the equations that govern space, time, matter, and energy. His faculty service work concentrates primarily on problems in higher education quality assurance and accreditation. He was elected to the board of directors of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation in 2006.

[Dennis Ruhl]

I see they attempted to use the Levicoff degreemill/diplomamill distinction that almost everyone thinks is a bit of a hoot. Only they didn't get it right, not Levicoff right.

[Don Dresden]

In other words, there are two snakes in the pit.

Gay Al and Gollum do seem to have a keen sense of self-awareness, don't they?

"Two Snakes in the Pit"

I see they attempted to use the Levicoff degreemill/diplomamill distinction that almost everyone thinks is a bit of a hoot. Only they didn't get it right, not Levicoff right.

They just made it up as they went along, like all the rest of their "research."  


Why would anyone collaborate knowingly and voluntarily with an adjudicated civil rights violator and admitted sexual deviant?

[ham]

His research in experimental elementary particle physics focuses on the nature and origins of the equations that govern space, time, matter, and energy.

Uh?!
You mean like Gene Roddenberry, eh?
Apparently I could do the same to read the future from melting chicken sh!t.
I once watched an extensive debate between top physicists and the main argument was considering the other man's argument bunk.
Maybe Jules Verne had it right.

[Herbert Spencer]

Why would anyone collaborate knowingly and voluntarily with an adjudicated civil rights violator and admitted sexual deviant?

Here is what federal judge John S. Rhoades, Sr., had to say about about Anal Contreras:

After a bench trial, the district court found that defendant Contreras had violated plaintiff's constitutional rights. Specifically, the district court concluded that defendant "Contreras' application of the regulations to plaintiff's degrees resulted not from an intent to achieve the goals of the regulations, but because of bias toward the institution from which they were received." That finding is not challenged on appeal....

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/data2/circs/9th/0335975P.pdf

That is, Contreras's bias was against Bob Jones University because of the university's Christian teachings and point of view.  Contreras is nothing more than a religious bigot.  Not only did the trial court rule that he is a religious bigot, the pervert didn't even bother to challenge that finding on appeal.  So it's not just somebody's opinion, it's a proven, adjudicated fact: Contreras is a bigot who hates Christians.

So if George Gollin (George D. Gollin, George Dana Gollin) has his choice and decides to voluntarily associate with such a bigot, one can only conclude it is because Gollin is not the least bit offended by such bigotry, and in all likelihood shares his anti-Christian bias.

Now I know there are some misguided or disengenuous people who would like us to believe that cocksuckers and ass pirates like Conteras are just engaging in some sort of "alternative lifestyle," and not acting in any way contrary to the laws of God, nature or common sense and decency.  On the other hand, I'm not aware of anyone who says that intentionally violating people's civil rights on the grounds of religious hatred is some sort of "alternative belief-style."   It is considered a vile and vicious act worthy of a filthy Nazi or Saracen, not a civilized person and certainly not someone entrusted with enforcing the law and paid with public tax dollars.

So whatever affinity Gollin has for Contreras because of Contreras's deviant sexuality--either because of Gollin's perverted lesbian daughter or perhaps Gollin's own closeted deviance, if any--ought to be irrelevant to him in the face of Contreras's unabashed, unapologetic religious bigotry.  So I agree, the fact that Gollin chooses to team up with such a scumbag as Contreras shows that Gollin himself is a scumbag too.  If you are judged by the company you keep, it seems only fair and fitting that George Gollin (George D. Gollin, George Dana Gollin) should be regarded as a slimy, anti-Christian bigot.

The next questions are why any public tax supported university would want to employ a slimy, anti-Christian bigot, and why a quasi-public agency like CHEA would care to have a slimy, anti-Christian bigot on its board of directors?   For that matter, why is the slimy, anti-Christian bigot Alan Contreras still employed by the State of Oregon?   It's about time somebody took a hard look at these two animals.

[4Knee Kate]

The next questions are why any public tax supported university would want to employ a slimy, anti-Christian bigot, and why a quasi-public agency like CHEA would care to have a slimy, anti-Christian bigot on its board of directors?

Welcome to Academia!  A pervert and an anti-Christian bigot?  You've got tenure!!!

Check this out, Marxism 101 as posted by Gollum at his high school website:

Posted on August 29, 2004 at 10:58:55 by George Gollin

Tax breaks for the wealthy, lies about weapons of mass destruction and the sources of support for terrorism in order to invade Iraq, ignorance of the support for terrorism coming from Saudi Arabia due to friendships with members of the royal family, the rolling back of environmental protection laws, opposition to a woman's freedom of reproductive choice, policies that increase the number of Americans without health insurance. That's a funny joke too. He'll send our kids to die in foreign lands in order to support his buddies' desires to seize oil fields. His thugs go after politicians who got themselves shot up in Viet Nam, daring to criticize their service records while he (and his cronies) stayed home getting drunk.

And you think that including these facts in a decision about how to vote makes me a fit subject for a homophobic joke that is worth posting here. Don't you get it? That man is using the children of poor people as cannon fodder to protect his own economic interests.

Don't you dare tell me to grow up or imply that I lack a sense of humor.

That is hysterical, like a brain dead regurgitation of a John Kerry punchlist.  

And remember this is the guy who posts death threats with little Zodiac Killer crosshair signs for people he doesn't like.  So why are you surprised he thinks a perv bigot like Gay Anal is a fun guy to work under???  Probably reminds him of his boss at UIUC.

[Herbert Spencer]

So why are you surprised he thinks a perv bigot like Gay Anal is a fun guy to work under???  Probably reminds him of his boss at UIUC.

I thought his wife was his boss at UIUC?  Oh, I see what you mean...

[4Knee Kate]

I thought his wife was his boss at UIUC?  Oh, I see what you mean...

Well, that really wasn't what I meant, but I'll take credit for it.  

Now that you mention it, she's seems to be about par for the course.  You've got the gender-ambiguous clothing, although that could just be her Iowa fashion sense and not necessarily evidence of k.d. lang leanings.  You've got the mutant pork peddling scandal.  And you've got her darling lesbian daughter's public revelation of her religious bigotry:

"today was ash wednesday and like everyother ash wednesday i forget that it is a special wednesday and the first catholic i see is always a surprise. for some reason i dont remember seeing people with ash on their forehead until i came to uni. but maybe i just mistook it for dirt. which is very easy, especially when it is the end of the day and there is only a little smudge left. my mom told me that it was like this for her too. and how all the catholics went to catholic school... so she never saw them... and hearing "there go the papists!" yes. mm."

I'm sure I'd mistake everyone in that family for dirt too.  Not just an anti-Catholic bigot and a possible deviant, but a violator of food and drug laws too, according to the FDA.  Obviously that's why UIUC made her an administrator and not just a professor like poor incompetent George.  He could be getting remedial education from Gay Al to upgrade his deviance and religious bigotry levels so he can qualify for a promotion.

Wifey probably tells him, "George, I have some very important administrative duties that you wouldn't understand, so I can't be bothered with you right now.  Why don't you go lock yourself in your office for a few hours and play computers with that nice Alan?"  

[ham]

Why would anyone collaborate knowingly and voluntarily with an adjudicated civil rights violator and admitted sexual deviant?

Maybe they first met in a (toilet) room at Yale (Princeton, whatever of that elitist crap )?
No, they "met" on a crummy website owned & operated by gay teen pornographer Thomas Chip White (owner of degreeinfo), the famous "health specialist" (with no known university degree) advocating coffee enemas as a treatment for cancer.
Well, maybe good old Chip owns a few shares of some adult business...wrong... Thomas Chip White personally scouts "talents", films them while they cram kitchenware up their love hole AND peddles his huge list of gay teen porn DVDs in very graphic terms on queer boards...just in time to post some morally adamant remark about the moral compass of an idiot who bought three doctorates from his mentor, worldwide learning authority John Bear, and once owner/promoter/head of a string of "schools" he now calls degree mills.

Tax breaks for the wealthy, lies about weapons of mass destruction and the sources of support for terrorism in order to invade Iraq, ignorance of the support for terrorism coming from Saudi Arabia due to friendships with members of the royal family, the rolling back of environmental protection laws, opposition to a woman's freedom of reproductive choice, policies that increase the number of Americans without health insurance. That's a funny joke too. He'll send our kids to die in foreign lands in order to support his buddies' desires to seize oil fields. His thugs go after politicians who got themselves shot up in Viet Nam, daring to criticize their service records while he (and his cronies) stayed home getting drunk.

I thought university teachers were not exactly "poor"...
For the rest, I am afraid he's right...the degreeinfo/degreediscussion clique is made of self-important clowns, but they are NOT the only ones.

today was ash wednesday and like everyother ash wednesday i forget that it is a special wednesday and the first catholic i see is always a surprise. for some reason i dont remember seeing people with ash on their forehead until i came to uni

That a family with Jews in it poke fun at ANY religion's practice is just unbelievable.

[Armando Ramos]

That a family with Jews in it poke fun at ANY religion's practice is just unbelievable.

If "Saint Regis" had been called something like "Yeshiva Western" do you think Gollum would have looked twice?

I'm told SRU actually donated quite a bit of money to legit Christian charities in Africa.  That's a two-fer on Gollum's shit list, blacks and Christians.  If they were giving money to the Mossad or the Communist Workers Party would he have been as interested?  

Running a degree mill and looking for a name that Gollin will support?  Try Gay Anti-Christian Marxist University.  Or as some people call it, Oberlin College.