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Yeah, whatever.
You based that on..what, exactly? Is it okay for the school to expell them and take their research based on the fact that their dad ran against a school goldmine?
Yeah, whatever.
You based that on..what, exactly? Is it okay for the school to expell them and take their research based on the fact that their dad ran against a school goldmine?
I based that on the fact that the story was a hatchet job with no pretensions of fairness. I have no reason whatsoever to believe what they've said is true. They dragged peoples' names through the mud on the mere say-so of one person. Where's the corroborang evidence?
Art Robinson had the gall to run for Congress in Oregon against far-left Democrat Peter DeFazio, co-founder of the House Progressive Caucus. Now the Oregon progressives are targeting his children.
World Net Daily reported:
In an effort to do my part in rescuing our country from the out-of-control Obama administration, last year I ran for Congress in Oregons 4th District against 12-term incumbent, far-left Democrat Peter DeFazio, co-founder of the House Progressive Caucus.
Although I won the nominations of the Republican, Independent and Constitution Parties and the endorsement of the Libertarian Party, a massive media smear campaign by DeFazio, paid for with money raised by MoveOn.org and from special interests favored by DeFazio in Washington, resulted in a 54.5 percent to 43.6 percent victory for DeFazio in a race that was expected to be much closer.
Although I had never run for public office before, I immediately announced my candidacy for Congress again in 2012.
However, when you take a stand for whats right, sometimes there is retribution.
On Nov. 4, 2010, as soon as the election results were in and they were sure their candidate had won, faculty administrators at Oregon State University gave new meaning to the term political payback.
They initiated an attack on my three children Joshua, Bethany and Matthew for the purpose of throwing them all out of the OSU graduate school, despite their outstanding academic and research accomplishments. OSU is a liberal socialist Democrat stronghold in Oregon that received a reported $27 million in earmark funding from my opponent, Peter DeFazio, and his Democrat colleagues during the last legislative session.
Thus, Democrat activist David Hamby and militant feminist and chairman of the nuclear engineering department Kathryn Higley are expelling four-year Ph.D. student Joshua Robinson from OSU at the end of the current academic quarter and turning over the prompt neutron activation analysis facility Joshua built for his thesis work and all of his work in progress to Higleys husband, Steven Reese. Reese, an instructor in the department, has stated that he will use these things for his own professional gain. Joshuas apparatus, which he built and added to the OSU nuclear reactor with the guidance and ideas of his mentor, Michael Hartman, earned Joshua the award for best Masters of Nuclear Engineering thesis at OSU and has been widely complimented by scientists at prominent U.S. nuclear facilities.
Meanwhile, faculty member Todd Palmer notified four-year Ph.D. student Bethany Robinson (OSU grade point average 3.89) that he was terminating her thesis work and taking all of her work in progress for himself. Some of Bethanys graduate work has already been used, without credit to Bethany, in the thesis of another favored student now recently hired on the department faculty.
Palmer, until recently married to a member of the OSU psychology faculty, is now married to former OSU student Camille Lodwick. They are both faculty members in the nuclear engineering department.
My children and I attempted to counter all these actions against us as they unfolded, but were initially uncertain as to their ultimate intent. All became clear, however, when OSU faculty administrators abruptly took a further and very serious prejudicial action toward Joshua. At that point, OSU Professor of Nuclear Engineering Jack Higginbotham, who was privy to all of the meetings and actions, warned us and came to our defense.
Professor Higginbotham, who also serves as president of the OSU Faculty Senate and director of the Oregon NASA Space Science Consortium, has been a member of the OSU faculty for 24 years. He has held many responsible positions in the university and has received numerous professional awards. Moreover, he is very widely admired for the many instances in which he has given special help to students at OSU. This is a man who thinks always of his students and never of himself.
Professor Higginbotham warned us that faculty administrators at OSU were working to make certain that Joshua, his sister Bethany and, if possible, his brother Matthew never receive Ph.D. degrees in nuclear engineering from OSU, regardless of their examination, academic and research performance. Professor Higginbotham then reviewed with us the details of the plan to destroy the education of these students and advised me to do anything I could to protect my children.
For more information or to take further action, please visit OregonStateOutrage.com.
I think an allegation has been made and two things need to happen: A criminal investigation into the allegation of theft, and a civil suit alleging defamation by the individuals named as thieves. Unitl then, I write this off as one more bit of partisan hyperbole and silliness. Though the author of this thread has been posting for a short time, s/he seems a bit off balance and worthy of ignoring.
Having said that, I'd yank my kids and their tuition out so fast it would make their heads spin.
The only problem is that these kids are on a Graduate Fellowship Program where the school funds them and their research.
....and the school has STOLEN their research and hard work.
OK, for fun, I googled this guy, Art Robinson. For hours of hilarity, I recommend you all do so. He's quite the.....er.....interesting guy.
Wondering why all 3 kids are students in the same program. Seems odd.
I wouldnt, however put anything past the petty rivalries that can occur at the doctoral level of academics. This will probably turn out to be more about that than any grand political payback schemes.
Having said that, I'd yank my kids and their tuition out so fast it would make their heads spin.
The only problem is that these kids are on a Graduate Fellowship Program where the school funds them and their research.
....and the school has STOLEN their research and hard work.
The school did not "steal" the research. All research at a university belongs to the school, and it is extremely rare for assistants to get credit for the work they do. That is how academics work, like it or not.
Though for the most part, universities don't feel obliged to interact with the little people. They don't believe they should have to explain anythign they do, ever.
