… went missing in Liverpool a few days ago. His body has now been found. Police don’t yet know how he died.
… went missing in Liverpool a few days ago. His body has now been found. Police don’t yet know how he died.
… and then sells antiquities in Israel.
The Israeli authorities follow him around. They watch him conduct sales of the stolen goods. His customers are foreigners he meets while acting as a tour guide at ancient sites.
So far so good. So you arrest the guy, tell reporters his name, tell his history department back in the States, and set a trial date.
But no. I guess the law in Israel is that you can’t name the guy – at least until his trial?
So while UD would love to tell you – especially since they stopped him as he was boarding a plane back to the States and found “tens of thousands of dollars” worth of artifacts on him – who this guy is, and… Wait. Boarding a plane?
The professor admitted to the offenses and after posting bail was allowed to leave the country.
So you take the goods back and then let the guy fly to back to the States? What’s that about? Have you even bothered to tell authorities here – or the guy’s university?
If your history professor were an antiquities crook, awaiting trial abroad, wouldn’t you want to know about it?
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Update: Hokay. John Lund, 70 years old, retired lecturer. (Where? I’ll see if I can find out.)
Lund was allowed to leave after posting a $7,500 bond meant to guarantee he will return to stand trial.
Huh? He’ll eat the money and stay home, no? Still don’t understand why Israel let him go.
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Is this the guy? Appears to be a Mormon…?
Dr. Lund retired after teaching for thirty-six years in the CES Institute program.
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Wow. The lands of the Book of Mormon. New one on me. (“See Educator Video.”)
His work is discussed in a recent issue of Mormon Times.
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Got his own website. Does not include in his list of books the one about blacks and the Mormon church.
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Curiouser and curiouser. The story’s growing by leaps and bounds — nobody’s calling this fraud a professor anymore — but Israel’s behavior — letting Lund go not once but twice — remains baffling.
First Release:
Antiquities officials discovered Lund selling artifacts at a lecture he gave in a Jerusalem hotel, [an antiquities security official said]. They seized the items, searched him and his hotel room, where they found hundreds of artifacts…. Because all the items had been recovered and Lund was a tourist, “We thought it was appropriate to let him off with a warning,” [the official] said. “But we kept our eyes open … and sure enough, the guy kept on doing what he was told not to.”
Wha…? Is this Mommy, or is this a fraud unit? First of all, they didn’t recover everything; he was found loaded with goodies at the airport. Second, he’s selling artifacts in the open, while giving a lecture, in a hotel. Brazen theft. Public flaunting and marketing of stolen goods. But – hey – we’re sure we got it all! All of the hundreds of artifacts! And after all the guy’s a tourist. Foreign countries never arrest tourists.
Second Release:
[H]e had stolen ancient coins in his possession and checks totaling more than $20,000 believed to be from the illegal sales of ancient coins, clay oil lamps, and glass and pottery vessels.
Lund was allowed to leave after posting a $7,500 bond meant to guarantee he will return to stand trial.
… is posthumously honored with a molecular bench.
He was witty.
It’s such a gray area. Are you kissing an ass for huge sums of money? Or are you being paid by a government for political and economic advice?
It’s the sort of ambiguity you can’t expect Harvard professors to get anywhere with.
Luckily, there’s the DOJ.
Here’s a guy, James Hood, who taught history at Tulane for decades and decades even though… well… check it out. 1.8 for Clarity… But if Rate My Professors rated lying, he’d for sure get a 5.
He and his wife and kids moved from Louisiana to Minnesota, where they got half a million dollars of state aid because they’d been displaced by Katrina and were impoverished.
Or that’s what they told the state. Actually, Professor Hood and his wife are multimillionaires with extensive property. They’re being investigated for Medical Assistance fraud.
This doesn’t reflect well on Tulane.
… He had a gift for French and his native Spanish and was honored as an outstanding professor in 2005 and the school’s company grade officer of the year for 2006.
Not bad for a kid who had to teach himself English.
“He pushed all of us,” his daughter, Air Force Lt. Emily Short said Thursday. “His word for us was ‘Don’t do it the hard way, the way I did.’”
Born in Caracas, Ambard never lost his admiration for his adopted land. When he leaned English, he sought perfection and spoke without an accent. He told his children to be grateful for the gifts that come with American citizenship.
That also covers my case: no criminal record and a college professor. PLUS I don’t go into jewelry stores and announce to the salesperson that I’m there to rob the place because I think it’s hilarious to say things like that. So: no criminal record, college professor, AND not an idiot.
Alexander Asandei seems to have trouble holding his tongue. You can already detect the problem here, in his woeful Rate My Professors pages.
But Asandei does not merely reserve his wit (he likes to call his students “dumb”) for the classroom. When asked the other day, in a jewelry store, if he’d like some help, he said no, I’m just here to rob the place.
So he got arrested and smiled his way through a mug shot and all.
Asandei complained about jail conditions and said people are way too sensitive these days. He feels everyone overreacted.
Well, he’s too sensitive to jail conditions.
… like bimbo eruptions, happen. Ellen Lewin, a University of Iowa professor, took offense at a mass email she received from a conservative student group.
She sent an email back to them that said FUCK YOU, REPUBLICANS.
This is really not the best way to address your students.
His motives, and the university’s treatment of him, are under intense discussion here.
… Poul Thorsen, once an autism researcher at Aarhus University in Denmark, is currently under indictment here in the States for theft. We’re trying to extradite him.
While a visiting scientist at the CDC a few years back, Thorsen scored some big CDC grants, for research to be carried out in Denmark. When he got back to Denmark, he “submitted false invoices for research expenses and had Aarhus University, where he held a faculty position, transfer the funds to his personal account at the CDC Federal Credit Union in Atlanta, prosecutors said.”
He used the money for cars, a house, and a motorcycle.
Thorsen no longer teaches at Aarhus; if you Google Thorsen and Aarhus, you get a statement about him from the Managing Director of the university which notes that although Poulsen continues to act as if he’s still on the Aarhus faculty, he most certainly is not.
The university also notes in this letter that Poulsen took a full-time position at Emory (Emory! Emory? Wake up! Get this guy’s mug off your website!) while still employed full-time by Aarhus.
Professor Rappaport (UD‘s father was born Herbert Rapoport – could UD be related to this dude?) offers some wild and crazy extra credit.
Kind of a mild version of that Northwestern University professor’s session with the device.
Rappaport’s Rate My Professors page is a trip. You have to go the extra mile to get a 4.3 Easiness rating.
Several business schools have approached him, he adds, and asked him to work on ethics courses. He likes that idea; Harvard and Northwestern are in his sights.
Once you’ve run a charter school into the ground, it’s time to retreat to your campus cubicle.
Coggins has ignored calls and e-mails seeking comment from the Orlando Sentinel. When a reporter visited Coggins at Stetson last week in attempt to discuss his role with Imani, he slammed his office door and said he was calling campus police.
Coggins specializes in cultural competence, and I gotta tell you that this behavior seems at the very least culturally insensitive.