College President Fired After Cover-Up
2 Other Eastern Michigan Officials Forced Out After Accusations Of Covering Up Student's Rape-Killing
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Campus Murder Cover-Up
Officials at Eastern Michigan University are under attack for failing to inform students about a sexual assault and murder that took place on campus. Tracy Smith reports.
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Campus Murder Leads To Firings
The president of Eastern Michigan University resigned and two administrators were fired in the wake of the cover-up of a female student's murder. Tracy Smith reports.
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Eastern Michigan University president John Fallon holds up a rear-view mirror in this July 18, 2005, file photo. During a meeting with student leaders, he said his first decision as a president was to "take off the rear-view mirror" and focus on the road ahead. Fallon confirmed on July 15, 2007, that he had been fired. (AP/Ann Arbor News,Eliyahu Gurfinkel)
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Eastern Michigan University Vice President of Student Affairs Jim Vick has been forced out of his job, months after top school officials were accused of covering up the rape and slaying of a student by publicly ruling out foul play. (AP Photo/Ann Arbor News)
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Eastern Michigan University student Laura Dickinson, 22, was found slain in her dorm room on Dec. 15, 2006. (CBS/The Early Show)
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President John Fallon was fired, and Vice President of Student Affairs Jim Vick and Public Safety Director Cindy Hall lost their jobs at the 23,500-student university, the chairman of the school's governing board said Monday.
Board of Regents Chairman Thomas Sidlik also said the board would put a letter of discipline in the file of university attorney Kenneth McKanders.
The body of the slain student, Laura Dickinson, 22, was discovered Dec. 15 in her dorm room. At the time, university officials told her parents and the media that she died of asphyxiation but that there was no sign of foul play, despite evidence to the contrary.
It was not until another Eastern student, Orange Taylor III, was arrested in late February and charged with murder that her family and students learned she had been raped and killed. Taylor has pleaded not guilty to murder and criminal sexual conduct charges in Dickinson's death, and is scheduled for trial Oct. 15.
An independent law firm investigation and U.S. Department of Education report both found that the 23,500-student public university violated the federal Clery Act, which requires colleges and universities to disclose campus security information.
Many in the university's administration were accused of covering up the truth and endangering students to protect the school's image, which has been marred in recent years by tensions with faculty, students and the community.
Fallon's secretary did not know how Fallon could be reached for further comment. Fallon told the Ann Arbor News that a termination letter indicated his office had been secured and arrangements would be made for him to retrieve his personal items. He told the newspaper he was upset with how the board handled his firing.
"As a citizen, I am disappointed in this hastily called meeting, without any opportunity to be present or to respond," Fallon told the paper. "I have a story to tell and intend to tell it."
Messages left by the AP at a telephone listing for the official president's residence at Eastern Michigan and by e-mail were not immediately returned. Board members said Fallon has 60 days to leave the property.
Fallon, 60, told the Ann Arbor News Sunday that he would comment at length in the days ahead on his termination and his tenure at EMU.
The board appointed Provost Donald Loppnow as executive vice president. In that dual role, Loppnow will serve as the school's chief executive until an interim president is selected.
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Other then that, they SHOULD be fired.
Hmmm...sounds like Bush's next nominee for Attorney General, Secretary of Defense, Supreme Court or even the Vice-Presidency if the phony God finally gets around to striking Cheney down dead.
As Virginia Tech sadly demonstrated this past spring, higher education doesn't provide protection from the harsh realities of life. It's past time for university presidents and provosts to shed their caps and gowns, set aside their brie and bordeaux, and accept responsibility for their students and themselves.
The new american democracy.
Lie - Lie- Lie
deny deny deny
then claim innocence by memo, media or manipulation.
It seems that "leadership" - whether it be in our political,educational or business dealings; rule by the book of deceipt.
How can we believe a word out of their mouths these days. The sad part is that we are forced to accept it - they lie and if they don't get away with it they spin. Tillman,Enron,WMD's and now dead youth. It's a greedy place to live these days with our fine "examples" of our childrens futures covering their azzes - without a care in the world. If they get caught they just refuse to answer, make up fake "memos" or drag it out so long *obviously hoping that mommies and daddies will just forget their loss*.
Raped and her parents were CONNED?
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by mountainzen
July 17, 2007 2:24 PM PDT
- Now he is wishing that was a *magic* rear-view mirror that goes back in time...
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