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Monday, September 27, 2004
Character and Diploma Mills
Times-Picayune September 27: "Our commander in chief does not have the character to say, 'We screwed up,' " Mendoza, a Democrat, said of Bush. Mendoza, 45, said he's financing his own campaign [for Senate from Louisiana] but would not say how much he plans to spend. Among his college degrees, he lists two from LaSalle University, a now-defunct diploma mill that had a Mandeville mailing address. A federal investigation showed in 1996 that LaSalle had misrepresented the value of its mail-order degrees, bilking students out of $36 million. Mendoza said he was one of those victims but that he completed the research and workload the programs required. He said his military career, which required him to move often, made "distance education" his only option. "I did not know about the fraud until it surfaced in the news," he said. |