<html><head></head><body><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"> WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY AND HOW THE MEDIA LIED ABOUT IT Regretfully, I was precluded from presenting this argument in court due to the partiality of the trial judge. She wrote in her judgment that The Gazette publication "was well researched". You can decide by yourself whether this is true. I reproduce the text from "Fabrikant File", with each line starting with "&gt;", and then present my comment. The Gazette of May 27, 1994 has displayed in the left top corner the quote from Mark Twain: "Get the facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." The Gazette journalists took this joke quite seriously: this is exactly what they do in their daily work. Here is a quote from the article by C. Adolph, in the same issue on page A2: "Fabrikant ... killed four colleagues ... to draw attention to his disputes with the university." Can one imagine something more stupid than that: killing four people just to attract attention to a dispute! The whole "Fabrikant File" is written in exactly the same manner: take the facts first and then distort them any way they please. Here are some examples of how they did it. &gt;The investigation also reveals that once he arrived in Canada: &gt;He falsified his curriculum vitae by altering the field of his PhD degree &gt;and other titles to try to get hired full time at Concordia. The yellow journalists here claim that I had degree in a field different from Mechanical Engineering (they claim further that it was in physics). Well, why on earth would I need to alter the field, instead of going where I belonged, say, to physics? Even Cowan, who can not be accused of any kind of sympathy towards me, had to admit in his report (Page 25): In fact, much has since been written about Dr. Fabrikant falsifying elements of various CV's over the years. I have compared them, and the differences are largely explicable, if one examines the differences in academic ranks and degree granting systems between North America and the former USSR. Thus his "upgrading" of his USSR academic ranks and subsuming of "Mechanical Engineering" within his degrees in Mechanics and Applied Mathematics in post-1983 CV's are not uncommon reinterpretations made by such emigres once they fully understood Canadian equivalencies, according to a number of them I consulted. End of quote. I explain for a curious reader the system of soviet scientific degrees, so that everything would be clear. The soviet system of technical education is totally different from canadian. First, it is based not on universities, but on specialized institutions. For example, in Canada one goes to a university, gets his degree, say, in electrical engineering, and then he can go to work in any industry. In Soviet Union, if you wish to work, say, in aviation industry, you have to go to an Aviation Technology Institute, and if you wish to work in Textile industry, you would go to a Textile Institute, etc. Canadian universities give general education, and specialization is acquired at the workplace; soviet institutes gave both general education plus specialization in a particular industry, and this is why soviet students spent 5 years, rather than 4, and a very intense studying schedule (the total number of hours is about double of that canadian students spent). Soviet undergraduate degree is called "engineer", and it is about equivalent to a canadian Master degree due to the number of hours spent and the intensity of the program. The lowest scientific degree in the Soviet Union was (I give the literal translation) Candidate of Technical Sciences, which was given to a person, passing certain graduate program and defending a proper dissertation, regardless, whether it was in the field of Mechanical, Electrical or other technical sciences. In addition to a general title, there was an indication of a subfield, which was quite narrow, for example, my subfield was "Dynamics and Strength of Machines". The requirements for such a degree were much more stringent than the general requirements for Ph.D. in Canada. For example, one would not be allowed to defend an otherwise ready dissertation, if its results were not published in at least three scientific articles, and it should be done in journals of a certain scientific standing. No such requirements exist in Canada. One can get here a Ph.D., without having to publish anything at all. Very few Institutes were authorized to have graduate school, and the supervisor should have had the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences (no equivalence of such a degree exists in Canada). A Candidate of Technical Sciences was not generally allowed to supervise a graduate student. In addition, the degree, conferred by any institution was not valid, until it was confirmed by the governmental Higher Attestation Commission, consisting of top scientists in the field. This was done in order to make some uniform requirements throughout the country, so that the degree conferred, say, in Moscow would be as valid as the one in Kiev. Due to these stringent requirements, there were very few specialists with even lowest degree of Candidate of Technical Sciences, for example, in the whole Institute in Ivanovo, Liakishev and I were the only two employees with scientific degrees. All other "leading scientists" had no scientific degrees. In Canada almost every university can confer the Ph.D. degree, and it is not a subject to any revision by an outside body. The requirements for the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences was defence of yet another dissertation, and its results should be equivalent to a major breakthrough in the field. Such occurrences were so rare that, for example, Prof. Bolotin was the only Doctor of Technical Sciences in the whole Department, In Ulyanovsk, only Rector had such a degree, nobody else; in Rybinsk at the time of my arrival there was nobody with such a degree. There is no canadian equivalence for the soviet degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences. When I arrived in Canada, I had no idea of all the differences described above. So, as an honest person, I presented myself to T.S.Sankar as a specialist with a Master degree (I even told him that I planned to write a Doctoral dissertation, having, of course, in mind the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences). It was T.S.Sankar himself who explained to me that I already had an equivalent of Ph.D., so I did not need to defend any doctoral dissertation. So, if I did misrepresent myself on arrival to Canada, it was quite opposite kind of misrepresentation. &gt;He fraudulently bumped up his students' marks at Concordia and also &gt;marked test answers correct that were wrong. At the trial Marsden was forced to admit that he, in fact, had no evidence to support such a statement. I asked him whether he saw any of the exam books, where I allegedly committed my fraud, and he admitted that he did not see any. I asked him why, and he responded that Osman refused to show it to him citing confidentiality. I asked him whether he saw any student's complaint, and he admitted that there was not a single written complaint, he believed Osman that oral complaints existed. Then I asked him whether he spoke to any of complaining students, and he said that there was no need, since he trusted Osman. There is no way one can do such things for 12 years, without being detected. Students know very well, how they wrote their exams, and even those, who would benefit from such a fraud, would have no respect for a professor who would do such a thing. And the fact that students did respect me was established during my criminal trial when several former students of mine voluntarily came to testify, knowing full well that I was accused of the worst possible crime - murder. All of them testified that I was one of the best teachers they ever met. All this was not a secret to the yellow journalists - this is a quote from an article (The Gazette, August 25, 1992, C. Adolph): " 'He is the best teacher I've ever had,' the student told the reporter. Apparently the quiet man with sad face was a motivated teacher, a good listener." &gt;He lied about being offered jobs and publicly berated professors who &gt;refused to hire him. He also tried to evade his teaching &gt;responsibilities. ........... &gt;Fabrikant told his colleagues at Concordia he was offered jobs at the &gt;Universite du Quebec at Trois Rivieres and at Trent University in &gt;Peterborough, Ont. He said he had rejected them because he didn't want &gt;to go to the "boonies". But officials at those universities made &gt;extensive checks and found no record of Fabrikant being offered either &gt;temporary or permanent jobs. ............ &gt;[Osman:] "He said he had applied to 700 places, I said to him, 'You have &gt;applied to 700 places and you can't find anything? You shouldn't tell me &gt;that' ". Had I been inclined to lie, I would not have told Osman about "700 places". I did not lie when I said there were some offers, and I did not lie when I said there were none, I just do not lie, period. I was offered a one-year replacement position in Mathematics Department at Trent university somewhere in 1984, and I was offered a research professor position at Universite du Quebec; I never said it was at Trois-Rivieres, it was at Chicoutimi.
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