Former Honors Director Falsified Resume
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Vol. 83 No.27 • The Associated Students of Montana State University • Bozeman, MT • Tuesday, January 29, 1991 In this issue Showtime! !am.pus News • {..&test news from be Persian Gulf -Page 2 • Peace Corps eeruiters to visit 8oz.eman -Page 5 >pinion • Joe Bob takes n optimistic QOk at Iraq ~Page4 •Bridal upplement -Page 11 Roger MeGuinn's itest release is lviewed -Pag~;~? .,. _;.~. f" Jan Stenerud ed ti> Pro otball Ball of e -Pagel7 'Cats fall twice. The Kats Dance team hit their splits with near perfection at a Bobcat basketball game recently. AlthouQh the ii>omb!'MollUan9 r the weekend halftime entertainment was in sync, the men and women's teams both came up short on Saturday ogrnnst the "' . G~izzlies. The men were stomped 91-69 while the Lady Cots come up just short, 60-57. Next Saturday, the Lady Cots :~ -Pakes"'i7«1 will try for revenge against the Griz, while the men's team will have to rebound on the road against Weber and ISU. Former Honors director falsified resume further to say." He questioned was here from the first of July This corroborates comments Exponent involvement in the through mid-December," she made by an anonymous caller, matter, saying, "I'm no longer in '... '•I. .,~,., . revealed. She refused to com who suggested the Exponent .... · .. contact Oxford to investigate Montana and this sounds very ment on the circumstances sur strange to me." , Benjamin's credentials. Benjamin's San Francisco ul Benjamin, former direc rounding his departure. An official in Oxford's Bodleian \I\ \,,,, ,. t' .._. .' "•. MSU's prized Honors Pro- A Ph.D. or terminal degree is attorney, Barry P. Goode, stated, . - -~ . : Library substantiated Brooks' .. ... '"'J .. 1, apparently does not hold a required for the Honors director "there's more to the story than ~ 1 statements. what you've heard so far." He ~ 'f :v1 ·· ··--· • from the University of position, according to MSU. "I cannot find any record he ~d, according to officials When Benjamin applied for the would not elaborate. 1 r I did ever submit a thesis," re Despite repeated phone calls, ~' ' ' position in 1985, he supplied ported Colin Harris, director of njami n served for five years MSU with a resume that claims neither Benjamin nor Goode the library's thesis reading room. could be reached for further - . ; .. ~~ 1mors director, and has been he received a Doctor of Philoso "He is listed as still waiting to d with completely rede- phy degree (D. Phil.) in Theology comment until late Thursday submit in 1986." evening, when Goode contacted n the program. He is de- from Oxford in 1983. Harris explained that com by many students as "a Oxford officials contend, how the Exponent, claiming to hold pleted dissertations arrive at the proof that would refute the claims smatic leader." ever, Benjamin never obtained library's thesis department from njamin resigned his posi that degree and that his status the Graduate Studies office only against Benjamin. tMSU in August to become lapsed in \1arch, 1986, after he Rather than sending a copy of aft.er the degree is awarded. "He Benjamin's Ph.D. certificate from ent of tiny Deep Springs was granted eleven extensions. seems to be an absolute mystery e, an all-male honors ranch "His thesis was never consid Oxford, Goode instead produced ered and his viva voce (oral inter to us I'm afrajd." a letter allegedly written by the Mojave Desert of Califor- In a telephone interview last assistant accountant and regis- view) was never taken," Oxford Tuesday, Benjamin responded to ..J! .ording to Deep Springs Graduate Studies officer Ann the allegations saying, "that's : - . more on 'Benjamin,' pag~ 2 im Dean Susan Suzak Brooks declared. "He just didn't perfectlysillyand fhavenothing min is no longer there. "H~ complete the thesis." 2 • Tuesday, January 29, 1991 • ASMSU Exponent a ~enJ~~·"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-h• • continuedasno~ntincing~~~s· from page 1 trar of the college Benjamin at quirement of the D. Phil., and Goode faxed to Bozeman. adding that an automatic M.A. with Montana State UniversitY< tended within Oxford. that the dissertation was com Further, Flexin's secretary was subsequently conferred upon According to Vice-Presideik Goode refused to provide a pleted in Autumn 1983. reiterated what Brooks had pre him in 1980. He was admitted fo r Administration Jim Is copy of the Jetter directly to the Jn a phone conversation yes viously said: "[Benjamin] has into the D. Phil. program in 1978. MSU does not usually check Exponent but faxed it to a per terday, Mr. Flexin announce~. taken a B.A. and an M.A., but we Benjamin's re~ume, h_owever, academic credentials during sonal frie~d of Benjamin's. The "Saul Benjamin has never quali have no records of him taking a lists he earned his M.A m 1972. hiring process, depending on I Jetter, signed by PCA Flexen, fied to receive the D. Phil., for D. Phil." MSU officials have declined applicant's past experience. was not on Oxford letterhead some reason or another." Benjamin obtained a B.A. in comment in the matter, except to "In general, we have not do statfonery. It stated Benjamin Flexin does not recall writing Philosophy, Poli tics and Econom assert that Benjamin "resigned that," Isch said. "We are goin had satisfied the residence re- the letter to Benjamin which ics (PPE) in 1973, Brooks stated, effective August 31, 1990 and in the future." How Gulf war Environmental crisis in the gulf could hurt environment Experts race to help Saudis fend off oil Command in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, by Nablla Megalli the extent of the slick was not clear. Associated press booster "It appears we have stopped the fl of oil but we continue to seek posi · MANAMA Bahrain (AP) - Experts confi:i.nation of that fact," he told repo from around the world raced to the Saudi ers. Arabian coast on Monday to help the Nazer also said it also was unclea kingdom defend its vital desalination the flow had been stopped by the U plants against an oil slick. bombing. A Norwegian company that helped fight Lt. Col. Ahmed Roboyan, a Saudi the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska was tarv spokesman, said a fire at the sou c sending a pollution-bat~ling sh.ip capable of the slick had begun to diminish, of swallowing a half-mile of oil daily. It indication that the oil flow was abati z was to reach a critical desalination plant The slick was just off the coast and on Tuesday. far had not encroached on shipping Ian British Petroleum Co. was flying in shipping executives said. more than 70 tons of oil booms and suc Walter McKenzie, principal surve Iraq tnes to ignite Kuwa1ts t ,000 oil welts to tion skimmers. A team ofexperts from the for London's Salvage Association in sabatoge them. combat starts other fires Fires U.S. Coast Guard and Environmental could burn anywhere from weeks to years Massive / Persian Gulf, said the U.S. opera - Protection Agency arrived in Riyadh and "almost decidedly was the best thing1 clouds of smoke nse to the atmosphere. adding ---y harmful air pollution and •greenhouse gases· that 3. Land desttuction immediately met with Saudi officials. to me the only way" to stop the gush spur global warming Tanks. other machines destroy desert vegetation The slick was several days away from oil. Worst-case scenario: SMC>ke obscures the over a large area. spi ed fuel, chemicals. etc. Jubail, site of the world's largest water Still, he and others estimated sun OVEI' sucn a w de area that crops and monsoons contam•nate the ground desalination plant and one of many such even if the U.S. operation was fully 1r As13 are d srupted Worst-case scenario: Desert veg.itation facilities in the path of the spill. cessful, at least another 50,000 ba Likely scenario: Regional crop damage, takes decades to heal itself The oil from the Sea Island Terminal at would add to the slick as residue from respiratory problems air pollution, contribution to likely scenario: Destroying vegetation makes Kuwait's Mina al-Ahmadi may have been pipelines dribbles into the sea. global warming damaging dust storms more frequent severe halted by the allied precision bombing International teams converged on Saturday of the mechanism that allowed gulf to protect the desalination plan the oil to be pumped into the Persian Gulf, The 14,000-ton Al-Waasitofthe 0 C.:ombat o sabatoge destroys treatment plant P1pe1 nes and 01 tanks are destroyed or neglected U.S. military officials said. based Marine Service Co. was due tr at tu"S brackish grollnd water mto Kuwait s during l1ght1ng a lowing massive sp1ll 1nto tre gulf But environmentalists say so much dock at Jubail early Tuesday, comp pot~blt fresh water Worst-case scenario: Birds marine an mals crude already has poured into the water manager Gunnar Gangsaas said. Worst-case scenario: C1t1zens are wothout are rarmed 1mmed1ately way that an ecological catastrophe was The vessel is equipped with 3.2 m Ires water d r 1g exteod•!d comba• and likely scenario: Marne ecosystem su~ers certain. reCf'lr" ·1 0 of oil booms to spread as added defe 1btlc b •I 1moor"ant long-term damage For the arid desert region, the top pri lines to the ones that the Saudis alre Likely scenario: Fr .sh water supplies must be ority was protecting the desalination ,..,poned by truck or tanker un~l lhe plant s repaored have in place. plants that treat water for two-thirds of The ship is able to skim or suction the region's estimated 18 million people.