Where is the leftist douchebag Bob Costas to whine about bow and arrow control?

Quote:Son kills father inside Casper College classroom
December 02, 2012 12:00 pm • By JOSHUA WOLFSON and KRISTY GRAY Star-Tribune staff writer

Chris Krumm stepped into the classroom and drew back the bowstring. His father, [regionally accredited] Casper College professor Jim Krumm, was close; maybe only four feet away. Chris fired a single arrow.

It struck his father in the side of the head, and traveled through to the other side. The impact knocked the older man to the floor.

But the 56-year-old rose and fought back. Police aren’t sure how long the struggle lasted, but it gave the students inside enough time to escape.

Somehow in the chaos that followed, the door was bumped shut. It locked father and son inside, in a final struggle.

***

Saturday mornings, a small group of Casper College instructors gather for breakfast at a local restaurant. Many are computer teachers, but all are welcome.

Jim and his girlfriend, Heidi Arnold, came when they could, said Ralph Anderl, a retired Casper College computer science teacher.

“Jim and Heidi, they were really good friends to all, really. They were really gentle and kind, just really fun to know,” Anderl said.

Anderl taught Jim computer science sometime in the early to mid ’90s, when Jim was still a math teacher at Natrona County High School. Jim took night classes and eventually earned his master’s in computer science from Colorado State University.

When Anderl retired in 2002, Jim took over his job.

“Mr. Krumm was a very compassionate person,” said William Wallace, who took every computer science class Jim taught at the college. “As a professor, he’d always give me extensions if something bad was happening. I always spoke to Mr. Krumm about these things. He wasn’t just a teacher to me.

“He has been more like a father than my actual father has been.”

Heidi Arnold, a 42-year-old math teacher, came to Casper College two years after Jim. She was enthusiastic, but wasn’t the type of teacher that would burst into the class barking math at you, said Kate Lovelace.

Lovelace hated math before Heidi’s class. She didn’t understand it. All her other math teachers had been older men. Heidi was a younger woman. Relatable.

“She kind of let you do the talking,” Lovelace said. “She wouldn’t just give you the answer. She’d let you work through it.”

Jim and Heidi started seeing each other sometime after Jim’s wife died in 2005. They lived together in a house on Hawthorne Avenue and loved to travel.

Mickie Goodro taught math at Casper College until seven months ago, when she moved to Twin Falls, Idaho. Heidi used to come into her classroom to confide in her, and Goodro got to know Jim at the Saturday breakfasts. Jim loved exotic plants — he grew banana trees in his house — and shared Goodro’s love of goldfish, taking her pond fish every winter to keep them warm.

“I do want people to know they were absolutely loving, good people that I knew I could ask them for anything that I needed,” Goodro said.

***

There are few hotels in Casper that are farther from Hawthorne Avenue than the Shiloh Inn. Technically, the motel sits just across the city limits in Evansville. It’s an unassuming place, tucked behind a former gas station that’s now a barbeque joint.

Chris checked into his room shortly after 3 p.m. on the day before the killings. There was nothing remarkable about him, according to the front desk clerk. He paid for his two-night reservation with a credit card.

She never saw him again.

Police suspect the 25-year-old drove to Casper from his home in Vernon, Conn. They don’t know whether his father, or Heidi, were aware he was back in town.

Investigators uncovered information suggesting Chris had planned the attacks at least a few days before carrying them out. But they haven’t found any indication he threatened the victims beforehand.

His motives remain unclear. Speaking to reporters on the day after the attacks, Casper Police Chief Chris Walsh said he believed police had found some communication from Chris, explaining his intentions. It’s not known yet what they will reveal.

***

The attack began at the couple’s home on Hawthorne Avenue. Jim was already at the college, but Heidi was still home.

They lived in a middle-class neighborhood just north of Sunrise Shopping Center. A place where kids play in the street. A little slice of heaven, one neighbor called it.

It’s unclear exactly when Chris began the assault. Police didn’t receive the first call until 9:08 a.m. — two minutes after they first learned about the incident at the college. Officers responded to the scene, but by then, it was already too late.

From the evidence, police suspect much of the attack on Heidi took place outside the house. Chris stabbed her multiple times. Authorities found signs of defensive wounds on her body.

She was barefoot and still dressed in pajamas.

It would have taken only minutes for Chris to drive from his father’s house to the campus.

He arrived at the Wold Physical Science Center with two knives and a compound bow hidden inside a blanket.

***

Goodro used to remember Chris with something that could be fondness. Now she doesn’t know what to think.

He was in her Calc III class at Casper College, the kind of student that always wanted to know more.

“Chris was brilliant. One of the smartest students I ever had,” Goodro said.

“But his social skills were not wonderful.”

Chris graduated from Natrona County High School in 2005 and was an honor student. He studied electrical engineering at Colorado School of Mines.

But he seemed to be a loner.

Anderl remembers sailing with Jim and Chris on Alcova Reservoir. Chris was perfectly pleasant, totally gentle, constantly smiling. But something was a little bit different about Chris. Nothing Anderl can quite put his finger on. Just off.

Sometime in the past couple of years, Chris moved to Connecticut. He’d gotten a job that seemed perfect, and he and Goodro had breakfast before he left.

The job didn’t last. Chris had a hard time keeping a job while he lived out east.

This summer, Chris moved into a single-room apartment in Vernon, Conn., according to the Hartford Courant. He was quiet, but polite, neighbors say.

But one neighbor, interviewed Friday as police searched his apartment, remembered one unusual encounter.

“He gave me a ride home from McDonald’s once,” Matt DiPinto told the Courant. “He told me his dad gave him Asperger’s [syndrome], that his dad shouldn’t have passed it on. He said his dad should be castrated. I didn’t know him that well, he just kind of said it out of nowhere, so that kind of threw me off a little.”

Friends in Casper never saw anything violent in Chris.

“I am upset about something I read today that Chris did not have a good relationship with his dad,” Goodro said. When Chris came home to visit, he’d accompany his dad and Heidi to the Saturday breakfasts.

“For my husband and myself, every time we saw Chris he seemed to be relaxed and smiling. We cannot fathom where the hate must have come from,” Goodro said.

***

Police haven’t pieced together the details of the final struggle.

They know it wasn’t a protracted battle. They also know three faculty members tried to intervene. Security arrived with keys, and at one point, after the door was opened, someone threw a coffee mug.

Investigators believe Chris stabbed himself multiple times before plunging a large knife into his father’s chest.

The first officer arrived within minutes. By then, dispatchers had received two traumatic injury calls – one from the college and a second from Hawthorne Avenue.

Police knew someone had been stabbed inside the physical science center. They swept through the building, looking for suspects or injured people.

They found Chris and his father in room 325. The elder Krumm was already dead. His son showed signs of life. Medics rushed to the classroom, but were unable to save him.

Father and son died together at the scene.

The laughable Spokane Spokesman-Review has published an article about Dixie Randock's new and apparently entirely legal business. Wonder what bald, ass-scratching academic fraud put them up to that? A little something to promote his double-dipped work of pulp fiction?

The Randocks served their time and have violated no law. They remain hard working, self-reliant individuals beholden to no taxpayer-financed hog trough for their subsistence. What does the Spokesman-Review hope to gain by stalking and tormenting this poor woman and her family?

Quote:December 1, 2012 in City
Diploma seller an online psychic
Randock touts ‘powers as a Shaman Priestess’

Thomas Clouse The Spokesman-Review


Randock

The woman convicted in federal court of making millions by selling bogus online diplomas and college degrees is now working as an online psychic, promising to bring “amazingly accurate” answers to everything from career choices to marriage.

Dixie E. Randock, 62, of Mead, was released in April 2011 after serving three years in federal prison as part of a guilty plea with her husband, Steven K. Randock Sr. Both pleaded guilty in 2008 to conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud as part of the nationwide Operation Gold Seal investigation.

But several federal sources, and a university professor who wrote a book about the diploma mill scandal, confirmed to The Spokesman-Review that Dixie Randock is now advertising herself as “Blondey the Indigo Shaman,” who has the power to bring back ex-lovers or help customers lose weight.

“I will meditate on your FINANCIAL success for 30 Continuous Minutes for $5,” according to Blondey’s advertisement on fiverr.com.

Blondey’s video includes a photo that Dixie Randock had posted on her Facebook account in 2011. A search of Web links connects Blondey to www.mysticaleye.com. A domain search of that site lists the same address, 14525 N. Newport Highway, that the Randocks used to operate the diploma mill, according to court records.

Randock’s daughter, Heidi Lorhan, was given a one-year sentence as part of the same criminal case and also advertises herself on fiverr.com as “Shaman Crystal.” Lorhan declined comment when reached Friday by phone.

For six years before their conviction, the Randocks and a team of associates sold high school and college degrees from 121 fictitious online schools they created. They also sold counterfeit diplomas and transcripts from 66 legitimate universities.

From offices in Mead and later in Post Falls, the Randocks sold more than 10,000 of the degrees and related academic products to 9,612 buyers in 131 countries. Federal prosecutors alleged that they earned nearly $7.4 million through sales of fraudulent credentials.

George Gollin, a physics professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, recently completed a book about the Randocks and the diploma mill, which was found to have sold bogus diplomas to civilian government employees, firefighters in New York, members of the military, educators and officials in law enforcement.

“Now seeing she is passing herself as a psychic, it’s just more of the same,” Gollin said Friday. “I’d say it’s less harmful than selling medical degrees, but it’s taking money for something where you don’t get something of appropriate value in return.”

On fiverr.com, Randock offers to remove curses and to read customers’ past lives for spiritual healing.

“I will use my powers as a Shaman Priestess and Spiritual Counselor to attract financial prosperity into your life,” the website states.

Gollin first began his research into the Randocks’ diploma mill in 2002 when he intentionally tanked an online test for Saint Regis University but was offered a degree for $1,000.

He said Dixie Randock was also selling $65 certificates of authenticity to people indicating they had actually seen UFOs.

The latest psychic advertisement “was extremely funny and extraordinarily grotesque and not at all surprising,” he said.

Quote:

ChlamydiaLoots on December 01 at 3:37 p.m.

Sometimes, danger lurks in George Gollin‘s pants.

Is it true that George Gollin has been sued multiple times in federal court for extortion, defamation, stalking, computer hacking and civil rights violations?

Is it true that George Gollin made 1,280 posts on a website operated by a notorious gay boy pornographer?

Is it true that George Gollin made death threats against innocent people, including one invoking the deadly imagery of the Zodiac Killer?

Is it true that George Gollin impersonates government officials and posts people’s SSN’s on his website?

Is it true that George Gollin‘s domestic partner, Mel Loots, was cited by the FDA for selling 386 mutant lab pigs to the public for food?

Is it true that George Gollin likes to “collaborate” with an adjudicated anti-Christian bigot and civil rights violator, former Oregon bureaucrat Alan Contreras?

The answer to all these questions is a resounding “YES!,” but for some reason the Spokesman-Review has not run even one story on this public menace.

Isn’t it about time for the Spokesman-Review to start telling the TRUTH about George Gollin and stop harassing Dixie Randock and her family???

Quote:

ChlamydiaLoots on December 01 at 4:07 p.m.

Why was George Gollin fired by CHEA?

Has anybody from the Spokeman-Review asked CHEA president Judith Eaton why George Gollin was fired by CHEA?

Did the Spokesman-Review ask former CHEA director George Gollin why he was fired by CHEA?

Was George Gollin fired by CHEA because of his stalking, defamation, death threats, impersonations, civil rights violations and similar vile conduct?

Does George Gollin‘s domestic partner, Mel Loots, refer to Catholics as “dirty Papists”???

How many times did George Gollin get paid at public expense to write a self-promoting work of fiction? Was it just twice, three times, or even more?

How many tens of thousands of dollars have the taxpayers of the State of Illinois been forced to spend to defend George Gollin against lawsuits for extortion, defamation, stalking, computer hacking and civil right’s violations?

Why is the Spokesman-Review stalking Dixie Randock and not investigating the dissolute conduct of George Gollin?

Quote:

ChlamydiaLoots on December 01 at 4:36 p.m.

Why does George Gollin lie about his lesbian daughter and her two filthy internet blogs, “Once I Swallowed” and “La Vice Anglaise,” the latter title a French language euphemism for homosexuality?

What did George Gollin do that caused his lesbian daughter to make numerous obscene and insulting posts about him in her blogs?

Why did George Gollin privately admit he knew it was Canadian mental patient Quinn Tyler Jackson who sent messages to his lesbian daughter, but try to pin it on someone else he knows had nothing to do with it?

Why does George Gollin pretend his doctoral dissertation has any credibility when in fact he has publically admitted it was an improper collaboration with 15 other people and not his own independent work?

Has the Spokesman-Review considered doing a story about fired CHEA director George Gollin being an academic fraud instead of stalking Dixie Randock and her family?

Here's some recent reviews of Northcentral University from the Guide to Online Schools website:

Quote:Deceptive /Unethical ...and Poor Comm...
Lamour H Jackson - November 9, 2012

I am a doctoral student and was suppose to finish 2012. I have ethical issues with them as in 2010 they required students to start paying dissertation fees with general coursework. Then a couple months later, they designed a "full pay" comprehensive program.

A student can complete classes quickly, but when you get to the dissertation stage, you really do not know what is happening. You are ASSIGNED a full time chairperson who has the total authority to decide if your concept paper (not dissertation proposal) is ready to be submitted to the Grad School for approval. There is no continuity between what is written or what is expected once you get to the dissertation stage. Though they claim flexibility, there is little in class choices. You have no options regarding your dissertation chair or team and they generally will not let you change. They state that everything they do is in the best interest of the student, which is not true.

The school is motivated by money and not student interest. The faculty turnover is great and there are few ways for students to contact each other and no continuity. The mentors (instructors) generally only correct papers, so you teach yourself. Had I known, I would have chosen another school or none at all.

Quote:You have been warned...
David Sims - September 5, 2012

I enrolled at NCU in 2007 for the PhD in Business Administration. At first I loved it...100% online, no residency, and tuition was low. I only needed 51 credit hours to finish the PhD, including the dissertation.

5 years later, I had to withdraw from the school. I had finished the Comps exam, received my "ABD" letter, and even finished the first 2 dissertation-specific courses with a 3.9 GPA. Why did I quit?

1. Too many changes in the school policies. For example, originally it was my responsibility to choose my next course, choose my start date for it, and request my academic advisor to enroll me in it. They nixed that...the school chooses your course path and they automatically enroll you in your next course on the date they choose 2 weeks before your current course ends. Originally you could take 30 days between courses...not any more though. Originally you could take a leave of absence for personal reasons...not any more. Originally you could submit your assignments on any day you chose, as long as you got them all done in order and before the course ended; but now every assignment has a fixed due date. These and many more policy changes have rendered the school NOT flexible. They blame all the changes on accreditation requirements, which is false.

2. High turnover in faculty. The school can't keep quality instructors very long. My dissertation committee changed several times, and they kept assigning members without consulting me. Once they changed my instructor halfway through the class because the original instructor never showed up.

3. Increasing tuition. They raised tuition EVERY year while I was enrolled there. They invented new fees for nothing, such as technology fees even though they provided no technical support to students, and the only "technical" aspect of the student experience was using a web site that was unchanged for 5 years. When I finally had enough, I notified my academic advisor that I wanted to withdraw. The academic advisor went ahead and enrolled me in the next course, and I contacted her again to protest it and demand withdrawal. She submitted my withdrawal, and then the school charged me a $100 fee for failure to enroll in a course. Now they are threatening to put it on my credit report because I refuse to pay it.

In the end, it had nothing to do with how challenging the course work was...I was making steady progress toward graduation and was not struggling. I left because the 2012 NCU was not the same NCU I enrolled in back in 2007.

Quote:Simply look somewhere else
Mark - August 20, 2012

Having completed an online Masters at New England College (great school, an example for others to follow) I know the ropes of online education. I expect steep workload and rigorous grading.

With NCU, you get the workload at a premium price, with zero support. The education is what you take away from the readings and reviewing 20-year old articles, no interaction with others to include the mentor. The mentor is there to grade, period, they offer no value to the educational process, and the several that I had were unqualified to teach at the Doctoral level.

Quote:DO NOT GO TO THIS SCHOOL!
Cindy - August 15, 2012

I have been in the PhD program for 4 years. After thousands and thousands of dollars, hours, and gallons of sweat and tears, they keep moving the target. I submit my dissertation, they edit, I fix, resubmit. Repeat. Every time they set the bar, I meet it, they move the bar. They have no incentive to help me finish my degree. The longer I stay, the more money they make.

Quote:Do not go there,
sophie - August 12, 2012

NCU changed so much its policy that i felt like going after a moving target. The program is following a particular model, so students either enter in their model or are retaking courses. Never mind, you have to pay tuition constantly and are enrolled automatically without your input.

You are completly alone, receive a syllabus and write one paper of about 8 pages each week. Instruction is between you and the books and writing. Mentor are only correctors.

I would not recommend the school as it is a for profit school at its best.

Quote:DO NOT GO TO THIS SCHOOL
danielle - July 23, 2012

This is not a school you want to go to. The circulum is not adequate that you would get from a community college let alone a University. The teachers and mentors will not give you the help when you need it and will find reasons to talk to the dean and get you in trouble.

Also they will sign you up for classes and state that you have the funding available and than weeks later come back and state that you are supposed to pay out of pocket for the classes. If you want a good degree and not to waste your time do not go to this school. I have requested transcripts for my new college and they wouldn't accept alot of the classes that I have wasted my time taking all believing they would move over FOR NOTHING but 2 wasted years and having to take the classes all over at another school.

Quote:Unprofessional
Malinda - July 2, 2012

The enrollment process was a diaster. After Requesting information several times regarding The PhD program, I found myself contacting the University instead of enrollment specialist contacting me (twice).

After completing the enrollment process by phone, I was told that I would receive a confirmation by email and a Follow -Up cell regarding enrollment~ which I never received. Not to mention during the Enrollment process, I was consistently asked what were my options for tuition ( they wanted to know if I was afflicted with the military to utilize educational benefits).

As much as I was interested in this University, I will no longer Pursue interest in Northcentral University. When things appear to be to good to be true.. RUN , "100% Online University. No residencies and 8 week Courses." I Do. Not Recommend North Central University!!

Quote:Avoid at ALL costs
Michael - June 11, 2012

When I first enrolled the university everything seemed to be organized, clear and easy. They provided a flexible and comprehensive program.

I have personally read several negative reviews, saying it was a scam, and I don't know what, ... but I said to myself, how bad could it be. There are always a couple of people who will have something negative to say, right? I will just follow my program and I will be done with it in no time. It's not like it's the first time I am following an online program. So I went on, and enrolled.

The first thing that surprised me, that once you enrol, the so called academic advisor that helps you out with the enrolment process, the same person that sends you three e-mails a day to asks you where you're at, suddenly vanishes. Forget about having a single question or a request after that. You could send an e-mail to the accounting department, or someone, but of course, their job and answers are limited to their role.

Second, forget about a flexible program designed to fit your needs. All that nice marketing material. They have a wide range of programs, but after a couple of year, you realize that it’s all and all the exact same program. One three courses within the entire curriculum differentiate all courses. Once enrolled to a program you chose, courses down the line will start changing, and in time a new entire program will be imposed on you, and of course you will have to follow it exactly as they tell you to, when they tell you, and how they tell you. Forget about choosing courses from the curriculum you initially chose, or anything like that. In time everything will be set for you, dates will be fixed and they have your credit card. So good luck.

The first few courses were ok, motivation is high and like anyone you would live with some minor changes and constraints. But if you think the story ends there, well you're wrong. The further you go down the program, new rules and regulations suddenly appear, things you have to do and comply with, and things you can't do any more, making harder and harder for you to change your mind.

From a curriculum point of view, well, it's very simple and straight forward. You will have to write papers and more papers. If you didn't get enough, well you have to write more papers. There is nothing else on the program. FORGET about learning something. Every paper has a subject and you will write a paper on the topic. It’s relate to the course or not, well that doesn’t matter, you just need to write a paper and submit it. From an expense / cost point of view, NCU seems cheaper that other universities. You may enrol on that basis, but trust my word on it, the credit pricing will be quickly adjusted as soon as you’re up and running. You will end up paying exactly what other universities are charging. More, let's not forget that every three months, in a way for every course, a new dean, a new academic advisor and a new teacher, is appointed. After a while you start wondering what’s going on. You will have the impression that's a ghost university. Maybe there are three employees hired by a bunch of investors, that are running the whole show under different names. Let’s be clear on one point, NorthCentral University is not a university, it’s a business. It’s as simple as that, it was already bought twice since I have enrolled. So.

In a nutshell, this university is definitely not worth it. It will waste your time and your money. It is definitely not worth enrolling or graduating from. If you do, well good luck. That’s all I can say.

Another great argument for distance learning.? No need to subject yourself to the gruesome criminal victimhood that almost certainly awaits you at one of the top 25 RA Gold Standard Death Cartel outposts.

Quote:The 25 Most Dangerous Colleges In America
Abby Rogers and Gus Lubin | Nov. 20, 2012

College is hard enough without having to worry about serious crime. Yet crime is a reality on and around many college campuses.

The FBI's Unified Crime Report identified 2,696 violent crime incidents and 87,160 property crime incidents on and around college campuses in 2011.

We ranked the most dangerous colleges by averaging FBI crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of violent crime rank and property crime rank, with violent crime weighted four times higher.

NOTE: There are many complications in ranking schools. In short, schools that report crimes in neighboring noncampus areas have elevated numbers. Since these noncampus areas are judged by the school to be relevant to students, however, we have chosen to use a list that includes this data when available.

EXTENSIVE NOTE: FBI data is based crime data that is voluntarily reported by colleges. Although many colleges participate in the program, some do not. Also there is variation in the degree to which colleges report crime in neighboring noncampus areas. Where college police jurisdiction extends unusually far into noncampus areas -- as is the case at University of California schools -- crime numbers are elevated.

Alternate data is compiled through the Clery Act by the Department of Education. This data can be sorted for campus areas as well as noncampus areas. As noncampus areas are relevant to students [Noncampus areas are defined as (1) Any building or property owned or controlled by a student organization that is officially recognized by the institution; or (2) Any building or property owned or controlled by an institution that is used in direct support of, or in relation to, the institution's educational purposes, is frequently used by students, and is not within the same reasonably contiguous geographic area of the institution.], Clery's data should be sorted to include both criteria. Unfortunately, crime data for noncampus areas is provided for only a limited selection of schools.

For schools that are tracked by the FBI and by the campus + noncampus criteria of Clery, the results are fairly similar.

If Clery's 2009 data for campus + noncampus crimes were sorted by the same methodology described above, the most dangerous school would be Howard University (which does not report to the FBI), followed by MIT (#16 on the FBI list), Duke (#4 on the FBI list), and UCLA (#1 on the FBI list).

The data would be fairly similar too: for UCLA in 2009 the FBI reports 60 incidents of violent crime and 222 incidents of property crime (not counting larcency, which is not counted by Clery); while Clery reports 49 incidents of violent crime and 186 incidents of property crime on campus and noncampus areas. Considering these similarities it follows that the data included in the FBI list is similar to the data included in Clery's campus + noncampus list.

It seems that any attempt to rank schools by crime on both campus and relevant noncampus areas will run into limits on data. Nonetheless we have chosen to rank schools by this method based on available data.

Several schools have objected to our ranking. Their full statements are given on the relevant slides.

University of California — Los Angeles director of media relations Phil Hampton called it "a reckless mischaracterization of data" and said that "UCLA students feel safe."

UC Riverside director of media relations Kris Lovekin said our headline was "intentionally inflammatory" and also that "when crime stats are higher, it often means the campus in question is realistically dealing with its crime problem and is dedicated to transparency."



#25 Florida State University -- Tallahassee



Student population:
40,416

Violent crime incidents per year:
26

Property crime incidents per year:
551

2011 was a particularly violent year, with three forcible rapes, 10 robberies, and 18 aggravated assaults.

We averaged FBI crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of the violent crime rank and property crime rank (weighted 4:1). Violent crimes include murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.


#24 University of California -- Riverside



Student population:
20,692

Violent crime incidents per year:
11

Property crime incidents per year:
360

2011 was a relatively non-violent year, with only one forcible rape, four robberies, and two aggravated assaults in 2011.

University of California — Riverside director of media relations Kris Lovekin issued a statement:

Your headline, and the way you have used the statistics to brand certain college campuses "the most dangerous" is in fact a step in the wrong direction for crime prevention. An intentionally inflammatory headline is now being widely disseminated. Comparing all reported crime will necessarily include those reports that are false or mistaken. A more relevant statistic is available in the Clery Act reports compiled and released each year.

Allow me to quote from a response to the article from Campus Security Magazine, and to argue that the same statistics you have looked at might mean something very different: "When crime stats are higher, it often means the campus in question is realistically dealing with its crime problem and is dedicated to transparency. In essence, more reports of crime very often mean members of the campus community are better informed about threats to their safety."

UC Riverside intends to continue encouraging the reporting of crime, because it is the only way to make sure we can address it.

We averaged FBI crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of the violent crime rank and property crime rank (weighted 4:1). Violent crimes include murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.


#23 Arkansas State University -- Jonesboro



Student population:
13,415

Violent crime incidents per year:
9

Property crime incidents per year:
183

Jonesboro saw an alarming 42 burglaries in 2011, among other violent crimes.

We averaged FBI crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of the violent crime rank and property crime rank (weighted 4:1). Violent crimes include murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.


#22 State University of New York College -- Buffalo



Student population:
12,419

Violent crime incidents per year:
8

Property crime incidents per year:
188

2011 was a particularly dangerous year, with an unprecedented 382 property crimes.

We averaged FBI crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of the violent crime rank and property crime rank (weighted 4:1). Violent crimes include murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.


#21 North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University



Student population:
10,795

Violent crime incidents per year:
7

Property crime incidents per year:
170

2011 was a particularly dangerous year, with 9 violent crimes and 211 property crimes.

We averaged FBI crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of the violent crime rank and property crime rank (weighted 4:1). Violent crimes include murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.


#20 Western Illinois University



Student population:
12,585

Violent crime incidents per year:
10

Property crime incidents per year:
161

2011 was a tragic year, with eight forcible rapes, among other crimes.

We averaged FBI crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of the violent crime rank and property crime rank (weighted 4:1). Violent crimes include murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.


#19 California State University -- Fresno



Student population:
20,932

Violent crime incidents per year:
12

Property crime incidents per year:
413

2011 was a particularly bad year, with 17 violent crimes and 501 property crimes.

We averaged FBI crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of the violent crime rank and property crime rank (weighted 4:1). Violent crimes include murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.


#18 Rutgers University -- Newark



Student population:
11,798

Violent crime incidents per year:
9

Property crime incidents per year:
167

2011 was a particularly bad year with 16 violent crimes -- including one killing and one forcible rape -- and 212 property crimes.

We averaged FBI crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of the violent crime rank and property crime rank (weighted 4:1). Violent crimes include murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.


#17 Northern Arizona University


Student population:
25,197

Violent crime incidents per year:
20

Property crime incidents per year:
328

2011 was bad here too, with 21 violent crimes -- including one forcible rape -- and 367 property crimes.

We averaged FBI crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of the violent crime rank and property crime rank (weighted 4:1). Violent crimes include murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.


#16 Massachusetts Institute of Technology



Student population:
10,566

Violent crime incidents per year:
6


Property crime incidents per year:
321

MIT saw a spike in property crime with 382 incidents in 2011.

We averaged FBI crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of the violent crime rank and property crime rank (weighted 4:1). Violent crimes include murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.


#15 Southern Illinois University -- Carbondale



Student population:
20,037

Violent crime incidents per year:
16

Property crime incidents per year:
291

Carbondale saw three forcible rapes in 2011, among other violent crimes.

We averaged FBI crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of the violent crime rank and property crime rank (weighted 4:1). Violent crimes include murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.


#14 University of Cincinnati



Student population:
32,283

Violent crime incidents per year:
23

Property crime incidents per year:
558

University of Cincinnati saw a big drop in violent crimes in 2011, down to 19 after an alarming 49 in 2010. Property crime was down too -- but things are still pretty bad.

We averaged FBI crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of the violent crime rank and property crime rank (weighted 4:1). Violent crimes include murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.


#13 Indiana State University



Student population:
11,494

Violent crime incidents per year:
9

Property crime incidents per year:
214

Indiana State saw an alarming 236 larceny incidents in 2011, among other property crimes.

We averaged FBI crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of the violent crime rank and property crime rank (weighted 4:1). Violent crimes include murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.


#12 Ball State University



Student population:
22,083

Violent crime incidents per year:
19

Property crime incidents per year:
353

2011 was a particularly dangerous year, with 26 violent crimes and 376 property crimes.

We averaged FBI crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of the violent crime rank and property crime rank (weighted 4:1). Violent crimes include murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.


#11 Georgia Institute of Technology



Student population:
20,720

Violent crime incidents per year:
15

Property crime incidents per year:
592

2011 was a particularly violent year, with four forcible rapes, 11 robberies, and five aggravated assaults.

We averaged FBI crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of the violent crime rank and property crime rank (weighted 4:1). Violent crimes include murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.


#10 Louisiana State University -- Baton Rouge



Student population:
29,451

Violent crime incidents per year:
26

Property crime incidents per year:
474

There were an alarming 22 robberies in 2011, among other violent crimes.

We averaged FBI crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of the violent crime rank and property crime rank (weighted 4:1). Violent crimes include murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.


#9 University of South Alabama



Student population:
14,776

Violent crime incidents per year:
14

Property crime incidents per year:
238

University of South Alabama reported one killing and two forcible rapes in 2011, among other violent crimes.

We averaged FBI crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of the violent crime rank and property crime rank (weighted 4:1). Violent crimes include murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.


#8 University of New Mexico



Student population:
28,688

Violent crime incidents per year:
24

Property crime incidents per year:
659

2011 was an extremely violent year, with two forcible rapes, four robberies, and 30 aggravated assaults.

We averaged FBI crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of the violent crime rank and property crime rank (weighted 4:1). Violent crimes include murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.


#7 San Diego State University



Student population:
29,187

Violent crime incidents per year:
27

Property crime incidents per year:
575

Violent crimes were relatively low in 2011, with only five forcible rapes, three robberies, and five aggravated assaults.

We averaged FBI crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of the violent crime rank and property crime rank (weighted 4:1). Violent crimes include murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.


#6 Vanderbilt University



Student population:
12,714

Violent crime incidents per year:
11

Property crime incidents per year:
555

2011 saw an alarming 535 larcenies, among other property crimes.

We averaged FBI crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of the violent crime rank and property crime rank (weighted 4:1). Violent crimes include murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.


#5 Florida A&M University



Student population:
13,284

Violent crime incidents per year:
15

Property crime incidents per year:
292

Property crime was relatively low in 2011, with only 11 burglaries, 220 larcenies, 12 motor vehicle thefts, and one arson.

We averaged FBI crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of the violent crime rank and property crime rank (weighted 4:1). Violent crimes include murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.

#4 Duke University



Student population:
15,016

Violent crime incidents per year:
14

Property crime incidents per year:
753

2011 was relatively safe, with only nine violent crimes and 650 property crimes.

We averaged FBI crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of the violent crime rank and property crime rank (weighted 4:1). Violent crimes include murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.


#3 University of California -- Berkeley



Student population:
35,833

Violent crime incidents per year:
38

Property crime incidents per year:
915

Violent crime dropped to 32 incidents in 2011, while property crime spiked to 1,011.

We averaged FBI crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of the violent crime rank and property crime rank (weighted 4:1). Violent crimes include murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.


#2 New Mexico State University



Student population:
18,600

Violent crime incidents per year:
22

Property crime incidents per year:
392

Property crimes spiked to 461 incidents in 2011, including 69 burglaries, 385 larcenies, seven motor vehicle thefts, and one arson.

We averaged FBI crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of the violent crime rank and property crime rank (weighted 4:1). Violent crimes include murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.


#1 University of California -- Los Angeles



Student population:
38,157

Violent crime incidents per year:
49

Property crime incidents per year:
921

While crime declined in 2011, things are still terrible: 12 forcible rapes; 11 robberies; 17 aggravated assaults; 195 burglaries; 625 larcenies; 18 motor vehicle thefts; and three incidents of arson.

UCLA director of media relations Phil Hampton issued the following statement:

Safety is a priority at UCLA, and we are proud of our record. UCLA police take reports of crimes committed not only on university-owned and university-operated properties both on campus and off, but also crimes committed in neighboring off-campus areas where UCLA police have concurrent jurisdiction with other law enforcement agencies. Our students feel safe. To conclude that UCLA somehow is dangerous is a reckless mischaracterization of data.

We averaged FBI crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of the violent crime rank and property crime rank (weighted 4:1). Violent crimes include murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.

It took Tufts six years to figure out that Armstrong was lousy with PEDs when he won all those titles? Who besides these Gold Standard geniuses didn't at least suspect?

Or was the "powerful message" Armstrong was bringing to the grads really just that drug detection technology lags well behind drug development technology, so exploit your edge for maximum personal gain?

By showing what happens to cheaters when they get caught, isn't Armstrong still "setting an extraordinary example"? So by revoking the honorary degree it seems that "setting an extraordinary example" is somewhat less important to the higher ed cartel than the "free publicity" and "piggy-backing on the fame of a celebrity" that accompanied its award.

Quote:University Rescinds Honorary Degree Awarded to Lance Armstrong
10:49 AM, Nov 20, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER

[Regionally accredited] Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, has voted to rescind the honorary degree it conferred on embattled bicyclist Lance Armstrong, a university spokesman confirms.

"The Board of Trustees unanimously voted to rescind the honorary degree awarded to Lance Armstrong at Commencement in 2006," Kimberly M. Thurler, director of public relations at Tufts, writes in a statement to THE WEEKLY STANDARD. "While continuing to respect the significant work of the Lance Armstrong Foundation, the board concluded that, in the wake of the recent report of the United States Anti-Doping Agency and its acceptance by the International Cycling Union, Mr. Armstrong’s actions as an athlete are inconsistent with the values of Tufts University."

Armstrong was recently stripped of his seven Tour de France titles after refusing to continue to cooperate with the investigation into allegations of doping.

Additionally, he "has resigned from the board of the Livestrong Foundation, the charity he began 15 years ago after testicular cancer nearly ended his career," according to Bloomberg. "The move, coming 18 days after he stepped down as the group’s chairman, is designed to further distance him from the Austin, Texas-based foundation as a way to help it survive the fall from grace of one of the world’s best-known athletes, officials said yesterday in announcing the move."

The famed bicyclist was light-hearted in his commencement address to Tufts in 2006. "You know, for a guy who barely made it out of high school, I find it incredibly ironic that I am standing up here as a doctor," said Armstrong. "I would just ask that somebody send the photos to the principal at Plano East Senior High and let him know that I, in fact, graduated from Tufts and that he has to call me Dr. Armstrong now."

But with the university's decision, he can longer claim that title.

“Lance Armstrong brings a powerful message to our graduates and commencement guests: Never give up," then Tufts president Larry Bacow said when Armstrong was announced as an honorary degree recipient in 2006. "His perseverance on the bike and in life sets an extraordinary example for all who seek to overcome obstacles and achieve their highest goals. We are honored to host him at Tufts.”

That statement, too, no longer seems to have stood the test of time.

Load up on student debt now! Dear Leader will change the rules to allow bankruptcy discharge and dump another trillion dollars in debt on the taxpayers.

"One-class-a-week" professors earning ridiculous salaries? Can we think of any self-appointed "experts" in the UIUC physics department who fit that description???

Quote:Senate Fiddles While College Debt Explodes
Bruce Bialosky
Nov 19, 2012

America’s accumulated college-loan debt will surpass $1 trillion this year; what is our leadership doing about it? The Obama Administration took over the student loan market and expanded Pell Grants, but hasn’t accomplished anything to address the root cause of the crisis: exploding college fees and related costs. The only thing they’ve done is criticize innovators and entrepreneurs.

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), chaired by Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), issued a new report calling into question the costs and performance of For-Profit universities. There are actually hundreds of these schools, perhaps the most well-known being University of Phoenix and Devry University. The report provides some damning statistics about For-Profits which should concern us all, since a large amount of free federal money (Pell Grants) is handed out to their students. Their cost of recruiting is much higher than private and public universities (the Establishment), and their four-year graduation rate 31 percent compared to 52 percent for Establishment schools.

When I read the report and its analysis, my only thought was “Wow! Is the committee staff really this dense?” Here are a few points:

1. Wouldn’t you expect the graduation rates to be lower at For-Profits? After all, how many of the best students in the country are going to University of Phoenix rather than Yale, Stanford, UCLA, or Texas? It’s obvious that they’re not attracting top-tier students, so it makes sense that their dropout rate would be higher.

2. The fact that more money is spent on recruitment also makes sense. Every high school in America has guidance counselors who direct students to Establishment colleges. Have you ever heard of a high school counselor telling a student that he should be going to Devry? The report leads one to believe that Establishment schools average a little over one staff person who does recruiting. Obviously, the people who compiled that statistic never had a kid go to college. That is just foolish.

3. The report also talks about the cost per student, but the numbers used don’t reflect the huge costs underwritten by states for public schools, or the cost to the federal treasury for tax deductions taken for “charitable” donations to Establishment schools. The comparison of costs is absolutely and totally slanted.

This is the fourth “study” done by this committee on For-Profit colleges in the last two years. And how many have been done on Establishment schools? Zero. One might come to the conclusion that someone has a vendetta against For-Profit schools. Since the Committee Chair is Senator Harkin, the finger must be pointed at him.

When I discussed the issue with Elizabeth Donovan, Deputy Press Secretary for HELP, she indicated that there had indeed been hearings on the Establishment schools and at my request kindly sent me copies of the witness statements. It struck me as strange that all of the testimony came from representatives of public schools, even though private schools (except Hillsdale College) receive substantial federal money.

I asked Ms. Donovan why representatives of private schools were not included, but she was unwilling to answer. I then asked whether there would be any similar studies released on Establishment schools. Again, she was unwilling to reply. But on September 13, 2012, the committee held a two-hour hearing on the soaring costs of Establishment schools. They concluded that costs are escalating because states are cutting their higher education budgets, and that schools are holding committee meetings and discussions in an effort to control costs. The reaction of the Senate committee was basically – that’s cool.

To its credit, the Republican minority, headed by Senator Enzi (R-Wyoming), issued a statement denouncing the For-Profit study. While acknowledging challenges in these particular schools, they asked the big question: why is so much effort being spent on For-Profit colleges, which represents 10% of the education industry, while Establishment schools, which represent 90%, are being ignored? It’s like focusing on your child’s performance in P.E. when they are failing math, English, and social studies. The minority enumerated the many reasons why the full report had been manipulated to make the industry look bad. And it questioned why Senator Harkin is unwilling to address the main issue – Establishment schools piling huge amounts of debt onto the public without a shred of accountability.

We deserve some real answers. Young adults are told that if they want to succeed, they must graduate from college. Today, parents are breaking themselves financially and their children are piling up ridiculous levels of debt. Increasingly, students are graduating with little hope of finding a job lucrative enough to pay off their debt, or with a degree that is useless for obtaining a position. And yet nobody asks why schools are issuing degrees in silly majors or why so many schools promote majors for which there is little demand for the graduates. More important, why are costs soaring way above the inflation rate, and why are the rapidly-increasing numbers of administrators getting paid so much? How about the falsehood of “not-for-profit” schools whose “one-class-a-week” professors earn salaries as high as $300,000 and college presidents earn $500,000 and up? There is nothing “not for profit” for these schools except their misleading titles.

Richard Cordray, Elizabeth Warren’s stand-in at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, broached the subject of why student loans are excluded from bankruptcy and suggested a rule change. I suspect that President Obama may in his second term run with this proposal, which means that a large portion of another $1 trillion – as well as any debt incurred in the future – will be dumped on the shoulders of American taxpayers. The Administration bemoans the debt level, but does nothing to correct the root causes. Obama’s ally in the Senate spends his time fiddling with 10% of the schools while Rome is burning.

Then again, is anyone really surprised?

Gay truck driver Steve Levicoff at DD:

levicoff Wrote:...and nobody misses the weirdo from the University of Illinois with all his flooeys, splooeys, and photos of Spam and soup cans.

158% voter turnout? I assume Eric Holder will be looking into this any day now.

Quote:Obama Likely Won Re-Election Through Election Fraud
Rachel Alexander
Nov 11, 2012

There were many factors that hurt Mitt Romney and favored Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election. The Democrats portrayed Romney in the worst light possible; as a wealthy, out of touch millionaire who wanted to return women to the 1800's. The left wing media predictably did everything it could to perpetuate that false caricature. Obama's race was an advantage; voters of all persuasions, particularly minorities, still cannot get over the allure of the first black president. The 47% of Americans on welfare were predisposed to vote for the food stamp president over Romney, wanting the free goodies to keep on giving, despite the long-term unsustainability.

In spite of those odds, polls indicated that Romney was going to win the election. The economy is close to Great Depression era conditions, and unemployment is almost as high as when Obama entered office. Economic conditions became so dire after Obama took office it prompted the rise of an entire new movement, the Tea Party. Presidents rarely win reelection when the economy is in the tank.

So how did Romney lose a race that numerous reputable polls and pundits predicted would be an easy win, based on historical patterns? The most realistic explanation is voter fraud in a few swing states. According to the Columbus Dispatch, one out of every five registered voters in Ohio is ineligible to vote. In at least two counties in Ohio, the number of registered voters exceeded the number of eligible adults who are of voting age. In northwestern Ohio's Wood County, there are 109 registered voters for every 100 people eligible to vote. An additional 31 of Ohio's 88 counties have voter registration rates over 90%, which most voting experts regard as suspicious. Obama miraculously won 100% of the vote in 21 districts in Cleveland, and received over 99% of the vote where GOP inspectors were illegally removed.

The inflated numbers can't just reflect voters who have moved, because the average voting registration level nationwide is only 70%. The vast majority of voters over the 70% level are not voting because they want to, they are voting because someone is getting them to cast a vote, one way or another. Those 31 counties are most likely the largest counties in Ohio, representing a majority of Ohio voters. This means the number of votes cast above the 70% typical voter registration level easily tops 100,000, the margin Obama won Ohio by.

Videographer James O'Keefe, known for his undercover videos exposing left wing fraud, caught a Virginia Democratic Congressman's son on video in October explaining how to commit voter fraud. Patrick Moran, the son of Rep. Jim Moran, told O'Keefe's videographer that in order to make a vote for someone else, you'd need two pieces of identification, such as a utility bill, explaining, "they can fake a utility bill with ease, you know?" He went on to advise the videographer that he should also call the voter and pretend to be a polling company in order to make sure the voter isn't intending to vote. He said that Democrat attorneys would be located in the polling places to assist him if challenged casting one of these illegal votes.

In another video, O'Keefe's videographer tells a DNC staffer from Obama's Organizing for America that she intends to vote in both Texas and Florida. The staffer laughs and says, "It's cool." The staffer then prints out a voter registration form for the undercover videographer and advises her on what to do if she gets caught.

These are just the known instances of attempted voter fraud. How many instances occurred that were not discovered? Obama's Organizing for America looked up voters in swing states – many who would not have bothered voting otherwise – and got them to vote. How did they get them to vote? They may have given them rides to the polls, they may have offered to fill out and return their ballots for them, or they may have voted ballots for the ones who were not going to vote.

Many on the left believe there is nothing wrong with committing fraud in order to ensure Obama's reelection. It is a common tenet on the left that the ends justify the means. Saul Alinsky, the 1960's radical who inspired Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, taught community organizers like Obama that dishonesty is acceptable if it achieves your political goals. And when caught, Alinsky teaches radicals to deny the wrongdoing and change the topic to put their accusers on the defensive. One Obama supporter brazenly posted on Facebook that he was voting four times for Obama, asserting that the ends justify the means.

Aiding Obama's win was a devious suppression of the conservative vote. The conservative-leaning military vote has decreased drastically since 2010 due to the so-called Military Voter Protection Act that was enacted into law the year before. It has made it so difficult for overseas military personnel to obtain absentee ballots that in Virginia and Ohio there has been a 70% decrease in requests for ballots since 2008. In Virginia, almost 30,000 fewer overseas military voters requested ballots than in 2008. In Ohio, more than 20,000 fewer overseas military voters requested ballots. This is significant considering Obama won in both states by a little over 100,000 votes.

Voter fraud has been in the works for years. At least 52 employees of the left wing group ACORN have been convicted of voter registration fraud. ACORN itself was convicted of the crime of "compensation," paying its registration canvassers bonuses to exceed their quotas. In 2008, 36% of ACORN's voter registrations were invalidated. Left wing political pundit Chris Matthews admitted last year that pretending to call someone from a polling company, then voting their ballot for them, has been happening in big cities since the 1950's. He admitted he knows that kind of voter fraud takes place in Philadelphia.

Strong-arming people into voting who really have no desire to vote undermines our form of government. People do not choose to vote because they are uninformed about the issues and candidates, are lazy, cynical, or are content with the status quo. Voting someone else's ballot for them is cheating the system and essentially giving yourself two votes.

When people claim that Obama won because the economy was improving, or because Americans generally think he is doing a good job, it is not true. He won through dishonest methods and rhetoric. Many of the votes cast in the swing states were cajoled, some legally and perhaps even more illegally, into supporting him. If voter fraud becomes acceptable, then maybe Donald Trump is right: it's time for a revolution.

Quote:BREAKING: Massive Voter Fraud in St. Lucie County, Florida
Heather Ginsberg
Nov 10, 2012 01:21 PM EST

On Tuesday only one precinct had less than 113% turnout. “The Unofficial vote count is 175,554 registered voters 247,713 vote cards cast (141.10% ). The National SEAL Museum, a St. Lucie county polling place, had 158.85% voter turn out, the highest in the county.”

The Supervisor of Elections, Gertrude Walker, had this to say concerning the 141% voter turnout: “They may have had something like that in Palm Beach County, but we’ve never seen that here.”

So maybe Allen West wasn’t crazy to ask for a lock-down on the ballot boxes and machines in this county. According to the report given the day after elections, Allen B. West garnered 52,625 votes in St.Lucie county and Patrick Murphy 65,896 votes.

This is a problem that must be addressed right away. There is no reason that there should ever be more than 100% turnout. This county alone could have cost Allen West his election. Voter fraud is real, and it is time that this be solved.

Quote:Philadelphia Came out in Astronomical Numbers for Obama
Heather Ginsberg
Nov 11, 2012 10:03 AM EST

In Philadelphia President Obama won the city with 85% of the vote, but in 13 precincts he won 99% or more. This vote is mostly due to the large African American populations in these wards. Obama carried these same ones in 2008.

Even though many voters were not as enthusiastic to vote this year, these wards in Philadelphia managed to be just as excited to vote for Obama.

"In this election, you had to point out to the people what was at stake. And in many cases, they felt that the Romney doctrine was not going to favor the working man," said Edgar "Sonny" Campbell.

Campbell is leader of West Philadelphia's Fourth Ward, where Obama received 9,955 votes. Romney? Just 55. Even McCain received 60 votes in 2008. In Philadelphia Democrats outnumber Republican voters by almost 7 to1. No matter what the odds though, it almost never happens that a politician can garner 99% of the vote or more in a town they weren’t born in.

Philadelphia's numbers were tilted so far in favor of Obama that one incredulous Republican revived the specter of voter fraud.

Other than for the self-proclaimed "experts," a Google search is not exactly the most comprehensive method for researching college programs. But a useful article as a starting point. Read the comments for more programs.

Quote:Distance Education Master's Programs Are Rare, but Important
By Tanya Roscorla
on October 24, 2012

Only a handful of master's programs focus on training distance education leaders and instructional technologists, despite a rising need for these positions.

A Google search reveals only three U.S. master's programs that include distance education in their title. Canada's Athabasca University does have a Master of Education in Distance Education.

The University of Wisconsin-Platteville started an online Master of Science in Distance Education Leadership this fall. The University of Maryland University College has had an online Master of Distance Education and E-Learning program for 12 years. And Nova Southeastern University in Florida has offered an online Master of Science in Instructional Technology and Distance Education since 1996.

"I'm a little amazed that there is reluctance on some universities' part to enter into the field," said Michael Simonson, professor of instructional technology and distance education at Nova Southeastern University.

Distance education skills

After conducting a needs assessment, the University of Wisconsin-Platteville discovered that there was a tremendous gap in distance education training, said Candace Croft, coordinator of the university's Master of Science in Distance Education Leadership. Distance education leaders require slightly different management and administration skill sets than they do on physical campuses.

"We really did not find that there was a critical mass of programs out there that would provide that knowledge and skill set for a virtual education leader or administrator," Croft said.

The skill sets that distance education leaders need include managing a team of faculty from afar, understanding how to evaluate faculty in online classrooms and how to track operations in a virtual environment, Croft said.

"This is really looking at an entirely new scenario and preparing leaders and administrators in that virtual education environment with a complete skill set," Croft said.

The leadership skills required for other jobs are the same in distance education, said Stella Porto, director and professor in the Master of Distance Education and E-Learning program at the University of Maryland University College. They will have to balance quality of education, access for students and cost. And vision is especially important.

"We want these fundamentals to be solid, but they really have to have their eyes on what's happening in the future," Porto said. "A lot of them will be working in scenarios that we can't foresee right now."

Community colleges in particular will require distance learning leaders to manage distance learning units and support faculty who teach online.

"Mostly when faculty come to teach online, what the institutions are looking for is their expertise in their subject matter; they don't need expertise in distance education," Porto said. "So what you need in that sense is people that will provide the support to these people that will teach online."

Even though only a few master's programs exist, distance education certificate programs have been increasing to meet those needs, Porto said. Many of these smaller programs focus on specific areas such as teaching at a distance or how to design instruction in distance education.

Instructional designers wanted

Instructional designers who can work with distance education environments are in high demand, said Simonson from Nova Southeastern University. The university created a master's program as a bridge to its doctoral program on instructional design in distance education. And the 350 doctoral students and 30 to 35 master's students it graduates each year all have jobs.

"Interestingly enough, the master's degree instructional designer who has skills in instructional design, has skills in digital media, has skills in assessment — they're as rare as hen's teeth, as my dad used to say," Simonson said.

These designers learn how to build a program around a conceptual framework that will be effective and relevant, no matter what software or hardware tools change. They start with Dick and Carey's instructional design model and look at other models as well. In the online environment, graduates divide the instructional content of a course into units and sub-topics called modules. Then they identify critical topics and look at what technology they need

This concept is part of a general move away from technology-based delivery systems to design-based systems that don't depend on a platform such as a learning management system.

"Instead of designing everything to fit into Angel or fit into Blackboard, the trend is: Let's design a course that can fit into any delivery mechanism," Simonson said.

There is a huge need for people with e-learning training, and there's not enough awareness about it, Porto said. Especially with the popularity of massively open online courses this year, people are developing courses by recording one-hour video lectures. They think their method will work. But anyone who has studied distance education knows that's not a part of best practices, Porto said.

"For those who have been doing this and who have learned the theories and the fundamentals of the field, it's almost laughable to hear some of the statements that are going on," Porto said.

That's why training about online learning is so important. Graduates of the Maryland program are valued because they know which theories work based on research.

As distance education continues to mushroom, at least three U.S. universities are training educators through master's programs in the field, others are providing certificates in increasing numbers, and the field continues to move toward technology-agnostic instructional design.

Will we ever know how many rapes and murders have been inspired by pervert Thomas "Chip" White and his pedophile-pandering pornography enterprises?

If, as stated in the article, the porn industry is directly responsible for the increase in sexual violence against children, shouldn't Degreeinfo.com's Thomas "Chip" White also be held directly responsible?

Aren't the people who post and moderate at Degreeinfo.com also responsible for contributing to harming children?

Quote:posted on October 27, 2012
Pornography Kills Again

By David Outten

The body of 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway of Colorado was found dismembered October 10. On October 23, [17-year old] Austin Sigg’s mother turned him over to the police as the killer. Sigg had been receiving treatment over the last two years for a pornography addiction.

The case of Jessica Ridgeway is far from unusual. In 2009, there were 65,964 cases of child sexual abuse reported in the United States.

German research found that 60 percent of men and 10 percent of women watch porn at least weekly (most daily). A study by IconKids & Youth found that 30 percent of girls and boys see porn before the age of 11. By age 17, 93 percent of boys and 80 percent of girls have seen porn.

Therapist Tabea Fretag, a specialist in media addition issues, says, “I have treated several traumatized women who were sexually abused by brothers who had been watching a lot of porn, among them many women who came from homes where the parenting was good.” She recounts one story where a mother found 30 porn site addresses listed in her computer’s browser, including one about horror sex. Her 9-year-old son had been logging on to the sites when she was out shopping. She and her husband tried to deal with it empathetically but later found him sexually abusing his little sister.

The danger is not just a few corrupted boys. A 1989 study of undergraduate males by John Briere and M. Runtz found that 21 percent reported some sexual attraction to small children and nine percent had fantasized about having sex with them. A study by 2004 Study by Michael C. Seto found that of 100 men convicted for child pornography offenses, 43 had also been charged with actual sex offenses.

According to a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Report, 32 million American women and 13 million American men have received unwanted sexual contact. Of these, 21 million women and 1.5 million men have been raped. Girls under 10 years old account for 12.3 percent, or 2.6 million, rapes. The report concludes:

“The promotion of respectful, nonviolent relationships is not just the responsibility of individuals and partners, but also of the communities and society in which they live. It is important to continue addressing the beliefs, attitudes and messages that are deeply embedded in our social structures and that create a social climate that condones sexual violence, stalking, and intimate partner violence.”

While the politically-correct CDC study was unwilling to mention pornography, it’s obvious to any sensible human being that pornography not only condones sexual violence, it promotes it. It drives boys like Austin Sigg to become killers capable of dismembering another human being. While the number of children dismembered may be small, 2.6 million rapes of girls under 10-years-old is not a small number! ...

Quote:Did Pornography Contribute to Jessica Ridgeway's Murder?
1:09PM EDT 10/26/2012 Charisma News Staff

Reports this week indicate that the accused killer of 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway of Colorado, who disappeared on Oct. 5 and whose dismembered body was found several days later, was a [17-year old] boy who was addicted to pornography.

“News that the boy accused of killing Jessica Ridgeway is addicted to pornography will come as no surprise to law enforcement agents with experience in sexual crimes,” says Patrick A. Trueman, president of Morality in Media and former chief of the U. S. Department of Justice Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section in Washington, D.C.

“Pornography consumption causes addiction and leads many, children included, to sexual violence. It’s high time the U.S. government took the issue of pornography seriously again and began vigorously prosecuting the major producers and distributors of hardcore pornography.”

The connection between pornography and sexual violence among minors has been clearly established. Several peer-reviewed studies regarding this link are available on PornHarmsResearch.com.

The mother of the boy accused of this monstrous crime called police to say that her son, 17-year-old Austin Sigg, may have been the killer. News reports indicate that he has been treated for pornography addiction since he was just 15, so the question must be asked: Did pornography contribute to Jessica Ridgeway’s killing?

Sigg is the main suspect in another violent crime, an attempted rape on an adult jogger. “We do not know and may never know exactly how much influence pornography played in these two crimes, but sexual crimes by minors do not happen in a vacuum; porn is almost always a significant contributing factor,” Trueman said.

“When the U.S. Department of Justice gave up enforcing federal pornography laws, it gave up on our children. Now addiction, sexual experimentation mirroring scenes from violent porn videos, as well as sexual violence are all too common among children. Child-on-child sexual crimes, once unheard of, are also on the rise,” says Trueman.

“The porn industry is directly responsible for these trends and the harm to our nation’s children. But law enforcement officials, such as U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who refuse to enforce anti-pornography laws, designed to protect children and society from sexual predators, bear much responsibility also,” he continued.

Eric Holder is the first U.S. Attorney General in nearly 30 years to refuse to enforce federal pornography laws, which were passed by Congress over many years by wide bi-partisan margins. Federal laws prohibit distribution of obscene (hardcore) adult pornography on the Internet, on cable/satellite TV, on hotel/motel TV, in retail shops and by common carrier, such as UPS.