aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Good decision

We turned down a position at Ohio U and chose instead to come here:

When the fall quarter began at Ohio University here, university officials hoped to put the troubles of last year behind them. Those troubles included accusations that more than 20 mechanical engineering students, some of whom had graduated nearly 20 years ago, had plagiarized their theses; a series of computer security breaches; faculty layoffs; and a no-confidence vote in the university’s president, Roderick J. McDavis.

“It’s unfortunate that all these problems happened at the same time,” Dr. McDavis said in a recent interview. “But now our university is presented with great opportunities for positive change.”

But it seems that as soon as Dr. McDavis reacts to one scandal, a new one emerges. Last week, as university officials prepared for tomorrow’s “Day of Discourse” to address ways to prevent plagiarism, new accusations were made in the student newspaper against its business school.