The mind of Mike: parts 2 & 3

Part 2:

MG: I’ve read the report and talked to the individuals {1:20} I’m not sure of the exact process that was used to make that determination.

Part 3:

BC: Do you believe that Heather Bresch earned her master’s degree? {5:27}

MG: <looks away> Uh, I believe that she believes it. I have no <shakes head> basis for believing it or not believing it. {5:32} Uh, I do <looks away again> know what the panel said and I fully agree with what the panel said. I do believe there was a great deal of confusion on her end, um on, and clearly, after you read through the panel report, on the end of the people trying to make the decision on the academic side. I, I , I couldn’t begin to imagine whether she does or not. Um, but I agree with the panel’s report and we’re gonna, um, <shrugs> implement it.

Inside the mind of Mike

MG: [Bresch] believed she had a degree

MG: I talked to the governor – it wasn’t until December {2:41}

MG: Didn’t talk to [the governor] until late December {3:10}

MG: (later) … I talk to the governor a lot… {4:20}

not weekly necessarily <glances away from camera>… talk to him frequently

…about the pop tax <grins> and how the elimination of that might affect Health Sciences… {4:35}

BC: <straps on knee pads> Is there an accusation that someone gave her grades in this process? Are you aware of that? {6:07}

MG: I really <looks aways from camera> don’t know if there is or not. {6:11} All I’ve done is read the committee report and I’ve talked to the individuals <hand goes to cheek, Obama-style> who were involved — not all of them — but, most of them, um, my <looks away again> , my sense, from what the committee report says is: <looking away, now> um, that <struggles for words> the issue could have been dealt with a lot better. I agree with that. I don’t have any reason to know or believe whether folks tried — I don’t believe anybody tried to manufacture a grade. I believe people were trying to work with the information they had; they didn’t have all the information.

Q: When is a resignation not a resignation?

A: When it’s only a 20% pay cut!

So, Lang and Sears are to receive 20 lashes with a wet noodle. Yippee!

That’ll show ‘em that we take our ethics seriously around Stewart Hall.

 

Hey hey; Ho ho; Garrison has got to go!

Garrison must go!

Okay, what did Garrison know and when did he know it?

After reading over the transcripts of the interviews before the panel investigating this matter here is what I conclude.

1. Bresch told Garrison “I do have a degreee. I did walk through the ceremony. I stopped going to class in the summer/fall of 1998. I was defending my employer in a lawsuit and had to be in California. Speaker told me that that my work in California would be sufficient to meet the remainder of my requirements for the degree. I relied on his statement.”
2. Garrison washes his hands and has no further contact on the matter with anyone. (Let’s even take him at his word on this point.)
3. Lang and his subordinates agree to support a story in which grades are changed and pulled from thin air for classes that all agree Bresh never attended. Bear in mind that many of them have also heard Bresch’s claims as to what she belives the deal was.
4. Garrison, knowing that the two stories do not agree, that these classes and grades are not even what Bresch herself recalls or claims, supports this decision.
5. Garrison must go!

QED