All these incredible conflicts of interest at the University of Illinois! It’s just astonishing that a major university could be beset with so many palpable, blatant, flagrant conflicts of interest. How could all these conflicts of interest exist?
Isn’t there someone among the administration at the University of Illinois who is responsible for preventing these sorts of conflicts of interest from happening?
Let’s take a look at the management hierarchy at the University of Illinois. Surely they must have someone who is in charge of preventing all these conflicts of interest.
http://research.illinois.edu/orgchart.pdf
Oops! What’s this we see???
Quote: Melanie Loots
Associate Vice Chancellor
Chief of Staff
• General Administrative Management
• Conflict of Interest & Commitment
• Proposal Matching Review
Not again!
Melanie Loots, the spouse of internet cyberstalker George Gollin (George D. Gollin, George Dana Gollin) is the
University Conflict of Interest Officer! Has that same self-appointed “expert” on damn near everything, the self-aggrandizing super sleuth who likes to call himself a government agent, once again failed to alert us to the malfeasance and incompetence occurring right under his own roof???
Wait now, maybe she is just in charge of answering the phone or sorting the mail. Maybe she thought it was like when she sold all those hundreds of mutant lab pigs for food, and that she was supposed to
spread conflicts of interest, not prevent them. Maybe she doesn’t really know what her role is there.
Hmmm….what’s this?
Quote: Role of the Executive Officer in Managing Conflict of Interest Issues
For persons in the role of academic department head or department chair, conflict of interest can be a complex, difficult and therefore interesting matter. The issues and filiations can be subtle; the apparently harmless and even the apparently beneficial can be insidious. Executive Officers’ lack of knowledge and the lack of clarity on how to handle such issues can be potentially embarrassing for both the university and the individual academic unit.
The Role of The Executive Officer in Managing Conflict of Interest Issues Seminar has been designed to heighten the awareness and sensitivity of people in academic leadership positions, where many such challenges are likely to occur.
The seminar will be conducted on a case-study approach, led by Steve Veazie, University Counsel, and Melanie Loots, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and University Conflict of Interest Officer. The session promises to provide for a high level of participation and discussion.
Please note that this is entirely separate from the state-mandated online ethics training.
Date: November 11, 2008
Time: 8:30am-10:30am * A light breakfast will be served from 8:00am-8:30am.
Location: Music Room Levis Faculty Center (2nd Floor)
https://slss0809.theregistrationsystem.c.../index/380
I bet she really enjoyed that little breakfast session with University Counsel Steve Veazie. Had to have been more fulfilling than noshing on a little spring roll with George. I wonder if Veazie told her that if the university ever gets hit with nationally publicized conflict of interest scandal that the University Conflict of Interest Officer is the one who is going to get blamed for it?
Do you think he told her the one about how every dog gets one free bite? The problem for Melanie Loots is that she’s already had enough bites for a twelve course meal. How many mutant lab pigs sold for food? How many “dirty Papists” on Ash Wednesday?
In the face of this embarrassing national conflict of interest scandal, shouldn’t the University of Illinois take some remedial action? How is it that people in academic leadership positions at UI lacked sufficient awareness and sensitivity to these issues? Was the University Conflict of Interest Officer not doing her job?
Isn’t it about time the University of Illinois fired everyone responsible for this debacle? The University of Illinois must fire its University Conflict of Interest Officer, Melanie Loots!!
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