Arnold Klein, a professor in UCLA’s medical school. Where is he?

I’m getting this when I search for him on the university’s faculty site:

Klaustermeyer, William B

* Medicine

Kleck, Jeffrey H

* Radiation Oncology
* Radiation Oncology

Kleerup, Eric M.D.

* Geronet
* Medicine
* Asthma and Cough Center

Klein, Marc G. Ph.D.

* Physiology

Klein, Robert M.D.

* Medicine

Klein, Stanley R M.D.

* Surgery
* Surgical Oncology
* GENERAL SURGERY

Kleinman, Leonard E …

No Arnold.

Yet the man’s all over the news, as is his academic affiliation. He’s the guy who did all kind of shit with/for Michael Jackson… … drugs… babies… stuff. Is he not on the UCLA faculty?

He’s a psychologist; his wife isn’t, but she plays one for the purposes of grand larceny.

He teaches Psychology of Personality at the Rochester Institute of Technology, but his main source of income is “allowing unqualified staff, including Esta Miran [she has an education degree], to perform therapy sessions, charging for longer sessions than were actually performed and billing for group therapy sessions when records show individual therapy sessions were occurring at that time.”

Along with grand larceny, they’re facing “scheme to defraud in the first degree, falsifying business records in the first degree, offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree and unauthorized practice.”  They seem to have ripped Medicaid and Medicare off for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

This should be a fun one to watch.  The State Attorney General knows how to pick them.  “Two married doctors are in jail Tuesday,” begins one local report, “accused of stealing close to $250,000 dollars.  Neither of them would stop talking in court.”  The roguish Mirons seem to have decided that the best way to evade their fate (about a decade in jail for both of them) is to pretend to be very old and very stupid.  They nattered on during their arraignment, claiming to be confused about where they were and what was going on.  Unfit for trial!

And yet so agile were these doctors that they sometimes needed only sixty seconds to provide therapy.

One of the charges accuses the Mirans of booking four to five intensive psychotherapy sessions in the same hour and conducting psychotherapy sessions from just one to 12 minutes at a time.

I found it here.

He led a life of intense activism and intense meditation.

Throughout, he worried about humanity’s desire and capacity for freedom. Here’s a good interview with him.

When Mr UD was working for the United Nations in East Timor, he got to know, a bit, Dahrendorf’s daughter Nicola, who was also working there.

From this interview: “[A]s Director of the London School of Economics, [I] have always regarded it as my job to protect academics from the obsession with realities, even the obsession with funds. That is to say, if you do administer, if you are in charge of an academic institution, you really have to see to it that those who are there as academics can do their job. So you have to relieve them of some of the burden of living in the real world.”

From the obituary in the Tallahassee Democrat:

A devoted Marxist, Hodges was an organizer for the Communist Party and labor organizations as a young man. At FSU, he inspired a cadre of students who formed FSU’s controversial Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) chapter in the late 1960s.

Many were students in a short-lived interdepartmental program Hodges created called social philosophy, which taught “anarchism, Maoism, Trotskyism, anything except capitalism,” said former FSU activist, … Jack Lieberman.

“He was keenly aware what he was doing would not meet the approval of the administration,” said Lieberman, now a Miami businessman. “But it was some of the best studies of my life and I learned a lot.”

Hodges was infamously cantankerous. Before his 2003 retirement, he lived more than 20 years in the Miccosukee Land Co-Op, where “He was not much involved in the community because he was not interested in anyone telling him what to do,” said Mitchell.

Hodges never learned to use a computer, imposing constantly on the philosophy department secretaries. He spent six years as chair of the philosophy department, until colleagues voted him out for spending the department’s entire travel budget on one of his research trips.

… “He could be a pain in the butt, no question about that,” said longtime FSU philosophy professor Russell Dancy.

… takes all the fun out of Angels and Demons:

In this followup movie to The Da Vinci Code, Hanks hears a dire warning that the half-gram of stolen antimatter will cause “a cataclysmic event” if it comes into contact with matter. “They take this in a special canister off to Rome with the intent of blowing up Vatican city,” [Roger] Moore said.

“To put it a little bit into perspective, if we took all the antimatter that we make in one hour at CERN and we dumped it into this cup of tea here, the result would be an increase of about 1 C. So we don’t even make enough antimatter to make a good cup of tea, so you really shouldn’t be worried about anybody blowing anything up with this.”

The movie’s premise makes for exciting science fiction, but fiction it certainly is, Moore said. Scientists are nowhere near capable of making that much antimatter. “It would take us about 10 million years to make half a gram of antimatter, so unless you are planning to live this long, you don’t have to worry just yet,” he said. “The other problem is, even if you could … grab all this antimatter that we’re making, we can’t store it.”

… killed in a car crash in Uganda.

He was much more than a professor, as his charming webpage shows.

Luke Cole, a leading theorist and practitioner of environmental justice law, who battled toxic waste facilities, mega-dairies, mining companies and other pollution threats in poor and minority communities in California and Alaska, died Saturday in a car crash in Uganda. He was 46.

Cole was traveling with his wife on a rural road in western Uganda when a truck hit their vehicle head-on. He died at a clinic a short time later, according to his father, Herbert Cole. His wife, Nancy Shelby, was flown to a hospital in Amsterdam, where she is recovering from her injuries.

… An avid birder, connoisseur of root beer and collector of bobbleheads and miniature spy cameras, Cole had taken off in early March on what was to be a four-month sabbatical. He traveled to South America, Antarctica, Madagascar and South Africa. Uganda, where his brother lives, was one of his last stops…

… The circumstances surrounding the death of Alain Monnier, professor of religion and anthropology in Geneva remain unclear for now, with police saying only that a knife was found in a nearby river and that he died of a stab wound to the heart.

Monnier was a professor for 21 years at the University of Geneva and he was last seen Thursday 4 June when he left his home in the Jura, near the Doubs river area, to go for a walk. His body was found Saturday. Police are not excluding all [should be ‘any’] possibilities, from suicide to accident to murder.

Most of the articles about this are in French, but this one, from Geneva Lunch, conveys the basic elements. Unless police find signs of a struggle, I’d say suicide. Hard to know how you accidentally end up with a knife in your heart.

This article describes a vivid, original personality of enormous warmth and inspiring intellect. He lived a rich life.

Here’s his home page at the university. He did religious ethnography.

There’s the Harvard coffee guy (see below), and there’s the Johns Hopkins spy guy. The guy who boasted to the undercover FBI agent who caught him that he had “lots of medals” from Cuba. That’s because he’d been spying for them for thirty years.

One of his students reminisces about My Professor, the Spy. A writer for Politico wonders why, given the broad hints the spy dropped over the years, it took so long to catch him.

Lee Fleming,
a Harvard business school
professor, got angry when
some guy’s car partially
blocked his driveway. He
threw hot coffee on the guy.

Fleming was arrested.

He’s charged with
assault and battery.

A glimpse of an Arizona State University professor, from his obituary.

Born in Bogota, N.J., in 1923, [George] Paulsen served as a U.S. naval officer in the Pacific theater in World War II. Following the war, he pursued advanced degrees in history, receiving an undergraduate degree in 1949 from Hobart College and a doctorate in 1959 from Ohio State University, where he was a student of Foster Rhea Dulles.

At ASU, Paulsen was known among basketball players in the department for his unorthodox hook shot. He also regaled his colleagues with accounts of the early years of the ASU History Department when its graduate program was small and its library resources limited.

According to history colleague Stephen Batalden, Paulsen was an ardent Democrat and longtime member of the American Civil Liberties Union, who lived modestly, rarely driving his 1965 Plymouth Barracuda out of its place in the garage.

Two years ago Paulsen sustained serious head and neck injuries in a bicycle accident in Tempe, never fully regaining his health, though he continued to read widely until the last weeks of his life, according to Batalden, director of ASU’s Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

… economic forecasting, has died.

… Granger realised that not all long-term associations between non-stationary time series are nonsense. Suppose, as the American academic Kevin D Hoover explained, that the randomly-walking drunk has a faithful (and sober) friend who follows him down the street from a safe distance to make sure he does not injure himself.

“Because he is following the drunk, the friend, viewed in isolation, also appears to follow a random walk, yet his path is not aimless; it is largely predictable, conditional on knowing where the drunk is,” Hoover noted. Granger and Engle coined the term “co-integration” to describe the genuine relationship between two non-stationary time series. Time series are “co-integrated” when the difference between them is itself stationary – the friend never gets too far away from the drunk, but, on average, stays a constant distance behind.

Granger’s discovery had an enormous impact, leading, as one of his students put it, to “chaos for a few years”. In order to forecast non-stationary variables, new techniques had to be developed to replace the ones Granger had debunked. …

Granger once wrote: “A teacher told my mother that ‘I would never become successful’, which illustrates the difficulty of long-run forecasting on inadequate data.”

… who was a veteran kayaker, dies in an accident.

An Eastern Washington University professor is believed to be the man killed in a kayaking accident on the St. Joe River on Friday.

W. Anthony “Tony” Oertling was an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

The 55-year-old had been at EWU since 1992 and was in his first year as chair of the department, “where he was performing in his usual effective and enthusiastic manner,” according to an e-mail Judd Case, dean of the College of Science, Health and Engineering, sent to colleagues Monday morning…

The Sheriff’s Office described the victim as a veteran kayaker who had 20 years of experience…

Kansas State’s president, much in the news of late, puts his son (UD assumes it’s his son) on the faculty (scroll down to the last name).

UD thanks a reader for pointing this out to her.

He was snobby. “I gave the department secretary the syllabus for this course to type up,” he told us, his Northwestern University undergraduates in a course called Joyce/Nabokov. “She said Oh, I’ve heard of Joyce Nabokov.” Imitating her uneducated speech.

A few students laughed. Most of us were taken aback.

Alfred Appel, who has died, was very kind to me. Had me over to his house and showed me his inscribed Nabokov novels, in some of which the writer had drawn butterflies. He was funny. His Annotated Lolita (which Gore Vidal thought a creation of Nabokov… Vidal thought Alfred Appel was a creation of Nabokov…) is hilarious.