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.ThwMUy, Oct. 16,1
IN THE AIR
Glenn Moore i The Daily Collegia
Bulldog Marching Band solo twirler Cheryl Porter practices her routine for an upcoming halftime show.
Luckless jocks struggling
MINNEAPOLIS, MN (CPS) — Some of
the best-known, most eligible, graceful
and biggest — in both the social and
physical meanings of the word — men on
campus moved into Centennial Hall at the
University of Minnesota last week, but
dorm women were very, very nervous
about it.
"Everything's gone okay so far," reports
sophomore Tracey Martin. "People are
not ignoring them, but they're not going
•out of their way to say 'hi' either."
"They"are members of the U M basket¬
ball team, devastated last season by
allegations — later disproven in court —
of gang-raping a Madison, Wis., woman
have widened dramatically, some observers
say.
"They are looked on as being dumb
jocks whose only legitimate reason for
being there is playing (Sports), "says Harry
Edwards, a sports sociologist at Cal-
Berkeley..
They also are looked at as being danger¬
ous. \s
The Philadelphia Daily News, using
FBI statistics, counted 88 athletes, at 46
different schools, charged with criminal
sexual offenses since 1983.
And in just the last three months, seven
Iowa State football players have been
charged for various assaults, credit card
and reports showing it had the lowest and bad check schemes.
male athlete graduation rate in the Big 10.
At Minnesota and campuses around
the country this fall, the athlete — once
the Big Man On Campus — has become
so sullied by drug scandals, grade-fixing
trials, under-the-table payments from
At the same time a North Carolina
State quarterback was convicted of sexual
assault while a Butler quarterback was
charged with attempted murder and arson.
Florida State suspended a linebacker
accused of killing one of his teammates.
boosters and a growjng reputation fojltr Police say three Colorado football players
crimes and bullying that the gulf between' are under investigation for threatening to
him and the rest of the campus seems to kill a local restauranteur.
Worries about athletes and their images
are so bad at the University of Miami,
which as of last week had the number-one
ranked football team in the land, that
campus officials formed a committee to
monitor the athletes' behavior.
Sports Illustrated magazine recently
estimated 40 members of the team had
been in trouble with the olicc
Jack Davis, president of the NCAA arfd
a sports official at Oregon State, denies
there is a crime wave and blames the news
media for the impression that there is.
"Athletes tend to make the news more
than other students." Davis says.
"For example, the same week that
(Maryland basketball star) Len Bias died
(of cocaine-related causes), the assistant
to the vice chancellor at the University of
Kansas was found guilty of selling drugs,"
he notes.
"You didn't hear about that one, did
you?" Davis asks rhetorically.
But it is the incidents that do not make
See JOCKS, page 12
Imitation
diplomas
sell for $13
CINCINNATI, OH (CPS) - Last year, it
cost nearly $1,800 for U.S. Congressman
Claude Pepper, D-Fl , to get a mail-order
doctorate.
If he had orfiy waited a few months.
Pepper — who was trying to dramatize
thc prevalence of "diploma mills" for a fee
— could have become a doctor of Aztec
Cuisine or Yodeling for just $13, says
Christopher Wigert. the "Dean of Deans"
at Fergle University in Cincinnati.
"I got up early one morning and started
thinking of strange universities and the
catalogue business." Wigert explains. "There's
a gap in between the Harvard University"
catalogue and Spiegelsk."
One need only send Wigert $13 for an
official Fergle U-* t-shirt and-a idiploma
— thus saving thousands of dollar's in
tuition and hundreds of hours of study
time at a regular college.
"We're talking about $100,000 — just
for a B. A. — at some of the finer institutions."
he says. "Here at Fergle. you can skip all
that and go right for your Ph.D."
As for the low. low cost of an education.
Wigert says it cannot be beat.
"We're definitely in a class by ourselves.
Even Harvasd can't compete." he notes.
By sending their kids to Fergle. he adds,
parents "car save enough money to buy
that new house or that new car."
However, the campus is small. Wigert
says — about the size of a five by seven
inch post office box - so do not expect a
huge dorm room.
In the month orso that the "school' has
existed. Wigert reports nearly 25 alumni
associationlnacriberjr 8uCsavs*hJ tflxjjefto
increase the number.
"By 1990. we hope the association will
get as big as the combined populations ol"
North Dakota. Wyoming and Alabama."
Wigert continues.
Fergles's motto - Disce Aut Morere
(Learn or Die) — makes Wigert cri&gc a
little, but "where else can you get a great
education and a shirt besides." he asks.
Although the idea behind Fergle U. is
strictly for laughs, consumers have in the
past been taken in by mail-order diploma
mills, says David Smith, director of the
Society for Values in Higher Education.
"It's hard to believe someone offering a
Ph.D. in Aztec Cuisine could be taken
seriously, but it has happened." he says.
"Consumers can be misled by what fake
credentials are goingNio do for them."
"The word 'doctor' get* translated into
a resume or on a business card and that
person is known as'Dr. So-and-So.'Then,
doors are opened," he warns.
Earlier this year, the "open doors"
included those at the White House and
other levels of government. FBI figures
show about 200 federal employees hold
phony academic or medical degrees.
Despite a maximum penalty of $10,000
in fines and a five-year prison sentence for
claiming false credentials, the FBI discov¬
ered nearly 500,000 Americans — one out-
of every 200 employees — using them for
getting jobs.
To dramatize how easy it is to get such
"degrees," Rep. Pepper last year had one
of his staff members answer an ad in
Popular Mechanics magazine, pay thc
$1,800 fee. and submit four brief book
reports.
The congressman is now "Dr. Pepper."
holder of a Ph.D. in psychology from a
Los Angeles "university."
"The danger of misuse outweighs the
humor of the situation," Smith asserts.
"Even if 99 percent (of the people in the
country) consider this sort of thing as just
a joke, if only oH^percent cause some kind
of harm through misrepresentation, is it
not then unethical?"
■*"-
_
:—
Object Description
| Title | 1986_10 The Daily Collegian October 1986 |
| Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
| Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
| Publication Date | 1986 |
| Description | Daily (except weedends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif.: BMI Library Microfilms, 1986- microfilm reels; 35 mm. Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- |
| Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
| Contributors | Associated Students of Fresno State. |
| Coverage | Vol.1 no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
| Format | Microfilm reels, 35 mm. |
| Technical Information | Scanned at 600 dpi; TIFF; Microfilm ScanPro 2000 "E-image data" |
| Language | eng |
Description
| Title | October 16, 1986, Page 2 |
| Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
| Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
| Publication Date | 1986 |
| Description | Daily (except weedends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif.: BMI Library Microfilms, 1986- microfilm reels; 35 mm. Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- |
| Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
| Contributors | Associated Students of Fresno State. |
| Coverage | Vol.1 no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
| Format | Microfilm reels, 35 mm. |
| Technical Information | Scanned at 600 dpi; TIFF; Microfilm ScanPro 2000 "E-image data" |
| Language | eng |
| Full-Text-Search | .ThwMUy, Oct. 16,1 IN THE AIR Glenn Moore i The Daily Collegia Bulldog Marching Band solo twirler Cheryl Porter practices her routine for an upcoming halftime show. Luckless jocks struggling MINNEAPOLIS, MN (CPS) — Some of the best-known, most eligible, graceful and biggest — in both the social and physical meanings of the word — men on campus moved into Centennial Hall at the University of Minnesota last week, but dorm women were very, very nervous about it. "Everything's gone okay so far," reports sophomore Tracey Martin. "People are not ignoring them, but they're not going •out of their way to say 'hi' either." "They"are members of the U M basket¬ ball team, devastated last season by allegations — later disproven in court — of gang-raping a Madison, Wis., woman have widened dramatically, some observers say. "They are looked on as being dumb jocks whose only legitimate reason for being there is playing (Sports), "says Harry Edwards, a sports sociologist at Cal- Berkeley.. They also are looked at as being danger¬ ous. \s The Philadelphia Daily News, using FBI statistics, counted 88 athletes, at 46 different schools, charged with criminal sexual offenses since 1983. And in just the last three months, seven Iowa State football players have been charged for various assaults, credit card and reports showing it had the lowest and bad check schemes. male athlete graduation rate in the Big 10. At Minnesota and campuses around the country this fall, the athlete — once the Big Man On Campus — has become so sullied by drug scandals, grade-fixing trials, under-the-table payments from At the same time a North Carolina State quarterback was convicted of sexual assault while a Butler quarterback was charged with attempted murder and arson. Florida State suspended a linebacker accused of killing one of his teammates. boosters and a growjng reputation fojltr Police say three Colorado football players crimes and bullying that the gulf between' are under investigation for threatening to him and the rest of the campus seems to kill a local restauranteur. Worries about athletes and their images are so bad at the University of Miami, which as of last week had the number-one ranked football team in the land, that campus officials formed a committee to monitor the athletes' behavior. Sports Illustrated magazine recently estimated 40 members of the team had been in trouble with the olicc Jack Davis, president of the NCAA arfd a sports official at Oregon State, denies there is a crime wave and blames the news media for the impression that there is. "Athletes tend to make the news more than other students." Davis says. "For example, the same week that (Maryland basketball star) Len Bias died (of cocaine-related causes), the assistant to the vice chancellor at the University of Kansas was found guilty of selling drugs," he notes. "You didn't hear about that one, did you?" Davis asks rhetorically. But it is the incidents that do not make See JOCKS, page 12 Imitation diplomas sell for $13 CINCINNATI, OH (CPS) - Last year, it cost nearly $1,800 for U.S. Congressman Claude Pepper, D-Fl , to get a mail-order doctorate. If he had orfiy waited a few months. Pepper — who was trying to dramatize thc prevalence of "diploma mills" for a fee — could have become a doctor of Aztec Cuisine or Yodeling for just $13, says Christopher Wigert. the "Dean of Deans" at Fergle University in Cincinnati. "I got up early one morning and started thinking of strange universities and the catalogue business." Wigert explains. "There's a gap in between the Harvard University" catalogue and Spiegelsk." One need only send Wigert $13 for an official Fergle U-* t-shirt and-a idiploma — thus saving thousands of dollar's in tuition and hundreds of hours of study time at a regular college. "We're talking about $100,000 — just for a B. A. — at some of the finer institutions." he says. "Here at Fergle. you can skip all that and go right for your Ph.D." As for the low. low cost of an education. Wigert says it cannot be beat. "We're definitely in a class by ourselves. Even Harvasd can't compete." he notes. By sending their kids to Fergle. he adds, parents "car save enough money to buy that new house or that new car." However, the campus is small. Wigert says — about the size of a five by seven inch post office box - so do not expect a huge dorm room. In the month orso that the "school' has existed. Wigert reports nearly 25 alumni associationlnacriberjr 8uCsavs*hJ tflxjjefto increase the number. "By 1990. we hope the association will get as big as the combined populations ol" North Dakota. Wyoming and Alabama." Wigert continues. Fergles's motto - Disce Aut Morere (Learn or Die) — makes Wigert cri&gc a little, but "where else can you get a great education and a shirt besides." he asks. Although the idea behind Fergle U. is strictly for laughs, consumers have in the past been taken in by mail-order diploma mills, says David Smith, director of the Society for Values in Higher Education. "It's hard to believe someone offering a Ph.D. in Aztec Cuisine could be taken seriously, but it has happened." he says. "Consumers can be misled by what fake credentials are goingNio do for them." "The word 'doctor' get* translated into a resume or on a business card and that person is known as'Dr. So-and-So.'Then, doors are opened," he warns. Earlier this year, the "open doors" included those at the White House and other levels of government. FBI figures show about 200 federal employees hold phony academic or medical degrees. Despite a maximum penalty of $10,000 in fines and a five-year prison sentence for claiming false credentials, the FBI discov¬ ered nearly 500,000 Americans — one out- of every 200 employees — using them for getting jobs. To dramatize how easy it is to get such "degrees," Rep. Pepper last year had one of his staff members answer an ad in Popular Mechanics magazine, pay thc $1,800 fee. and submit four brief book reports. The congressman is now "Dr. Pepper." holder of a Ph.D. in psychology from a Los Angeles "university." "The danger of misuse outweighs the humor of the situation," Smith asserts. "Even if 99 percent (of the people in the country) consider this sort of thing as just a joke, if only oH^percent cause some kind of harm through misrepresentation, is it not then unethical?" ■*"- _ :— |
