CARBONDALE -- 'The Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees has called a special meeting for Monday, Sept. 10 in the Stone Center at SIU-Carbondale, officials said.


...Trustees could ... determine how they will proceed with a review of a 1984 doctoral dissertation by SIU President Glenn Poshard, who is facing plagiarism claims...

Plagiarism allegations against Poshard have left SIU officials fielding many questions during the last week. The state’s largest-circulation newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, editorialized on the matter Friday, calling for the president to step down.

The editorial refutes the previously asserted idea that Poshard should get a "do-over" in re-submitting his dissertation, and says his degree "has been exposed as a fraud." The newspaper also compares the former congressman to former President Bill Clinton in explaining away his wrongs by "parsing his definitions."

One passage of the editorial reads:

"Poshard acknowledges that he neglected to put quotation marks around some material...but says he believed that was OK as long as he cited the sources in footnotes, which he might have forgotten to do a few times... But that's not plagiarism, Poshard says.

“Yes, it is. And it's an egregious and unforgivable offense for a university president, of all people. Poshard should step down."'