Dolphin Floundering

[Winston Smith]

A little more about Bradford S. Schwartz, the newest member of Gollin's League of Extraordinary Dumbasses.

Looks like Schwartz is Gollin's kind of guy--not just a complete racist, but a diabolical, manipulative asshole.  Schwartz tried to railroad a Puerto Rican kid out of the MD program because he had the bad taste to exercise his free speech rights to comment on the institutional racism that permeates U of I.  

Ray Morales is currently a Ph.D./M.D. student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since arriving on this campus, Ray worked within existing organizational structures to make positive changes for all students - especially those interested in Urban Medicine, serving lower-economic populations with medical access, and confronting institutional forms of racism at local and national levels. In addition, Ray is an active fighter to create challenging and creative learning environments for marginalized students within the sciences.

On April 2, 2007 Ray's Ph.D. advisor (Dr. Scott K. Silverman, scott@scs.uiuc.edu, (217) 244-4489) dropped him from his supervision and permanently removed Ray from his laboratory for making a statement in January stating he would (paraphrased) "tear down the University's bigoted practices and policies which directly exclude and repress students of color".

The Dean of the College of Medicine, Bradford S Schwartz, has also sabotaged Ray's ability to maintain his status as a Ph.D. student. Dean Schwartz has apparently counciled possible advisors from accepting Ray Morales as an advisee. Without an advisor, Ray can not stay within the Ph.D. program and will lose his external scholarships which require him to be enrolled in a joint Ph.D./MD program.

Ray is an outstanding scholar with a high GPA. He was also presented the Humanitarian of the Year Award at the Fourth Annual Celebration of Black and Latinos in Medicine sponsored by the Urban Health Program and SNMA on April 18, 2006.

http://www.iresist.org/ray.html

Morales illustrates the general attitude toward Hispanics on the U of I campus by describing a racist party held by a Jewish fraternity:

TACOS & TEQUILA party occurs where a jewish fraternity and predominantly white sorority dress up as stereotypical Mexican such as pregnant women in white beaters, vatos, farmers and gardeners. They take pictures and post them FACEBOOK. The community rallied in outrage.

https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/morales4/www/D...Packet.pdf (page 6)

January 08  Professor answers questions in medical class. Turns to one African American female student and asks if she still has a question. She indicates that she changed her mind. The professor exclaims, “Now there’s a woman for you!” and the whole class laughs. The professor apologizes and acknowledges mistake in class, but the whole class was comfortable with this rhetoric as indicated by their responses.

(page 7)

After someone "spray painted" the words "Save the Chief" (deposed sports mascot Chief Illiniwek) and "Chime Trustee" (Chime Asonye, student trustee candidate) on the sidewalk near the medical building, police then investigated another similar incident:

On 03/8/07 Investigator Ghent and I, Investigator Murphy, interviewed Raymond Morales in reference to this report. During our conversation with Morales we discovered it was spray chalk and not spray paint.  Per the University of Illinois student Code and policies (Article 2 General Policies and Regulations, part 5 Use of University Premises and Facilities, S 2-506 Requirements and Limitations) the use of chalk is an acceptable practice when writing on the side walk.

As we were talking with Morales we discussed his involvement in writing on the side walks.  He admitted to writing "KKK EST. 1906 AT UIUC" and indicated that he would not stop writing it on the sidewalk.  He also seemed upset over the fact that the Medical College had his writing removed off their sidewalk but they did not remove any one else's writings.  Morales explained to us his disenchantment and disgust over what he deems as the Medical College failure to work with him over issues dealing with minority students.

(page 40)

The KKK must be a lot more open-minded than they used to be.  Apparently they have the Schwartz/Silverman/Gollin Chapter at UIUC.  Ray Morales might have gotten better treatment by just changing his name to MurRay Moralestein.