PhD. Lie By NLM: Latest Update

[dohrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

>OKKAR wrote:

>(by - Kenneth Miller and Robert Sim (Bangkok))

First off, if you guys actually exist I don't know why you would need to
send a message to Burmese secret police in order for it to be reposted to
listserves.

>
>		You have certainly done an amazing task of revealing to all
>of us that the
>"Information Sheets" are distributed by the Office of Strategic Studies under
>the
>Command of  Ltc. Hla Min. Congratulations for your great work.  But, I am also
>astonished that it took more than a year for a person like yourself to find
>out where these information  sheets are coming from. Up to my knowledge, the
>source and distribution center never has been a secret.  Various foreign news
>agencies, business communities, embassies and many other organizations and
>individuals from within the country and abroad have been corresponding with
>the distribution  center  of the Information Sheets because of its acceracy
>and reliability.

Perhaps you should go back and read the original post.  The point was not
that the unattributed, undocumented news sheets came from Burmese secret
police.  We all know that.  The point was that said sheets have been proven
to contain lies.

>
>		Mr. Dobrs, you have the right not to achnowlege  an give
>recognition to the
>Information Sheets but we also have our rights to choose what we want.  How
>come you are preaching human rights and democracy and while an the other hand
>imposing on others your views and desires.

What a load of crap.  You can believe whatever you want, and I won't stop
you.  You can believe that Khin Shwe was "honored" by Washington
University.  But he wasn't.  They released an official statement to that
effect that was quoted in the news release.  You can believe that getting
an honorary PhD. from the equivalent of an AM/PM Mini Mart is worth half a
damn, and I'll let others judge that.

Now, read below.  You find that even a thick-faced businessman who sells
worthless degrees is ashamed of the Khin Shwe farce.


For the full text of this article, go to http://www.phillynews.com

This story ran on the front page of the Philadelphia Inquirer today, March 31.

Below please find an abridged version.

                                                  March 31, 1998

  Washington University in Missouri sues
   unaccredited namesake in Bryn Mawr.

    College by mail told: Stop
	Cribbing Name

                                        By Sudarsan Raghavan
                                     INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
  The brochure for Washington University in Bryn Mawr
looks scholarly enough. It tells of M.A.s and
Ph.D.s, of students from all over the world. A photo shows the  Strafford
Building's elegant red-brick, white-columned facade.

  But don't look for a campus, lecture halls or
cheerleaders.

  Or any ivy.

  "We are entrepreneurs, we are not educators,"
says Yil Karademir, the Lower Merion businessman who,
with his wife, runs the university and readily
acknowledges it is not accredited. "I'm in it for money. I'm not in it for
education."

   Karademir and his wife founded Washington University
three years ago. It's incorporated in Hawaii and
the British  Virgin Islands -- and, no, it's not connected to the
better-known Washington University, the one in
St. Louis.  That school is suing Karademir's, claiming trademark
infringement.

     Lori Fox, the school's lawyer, pointed to one recent
episode: A businessman in Myanmar, who human-rights
activists say has close ties to Myanmar's brutal
military dictatorship, received an honorary doctorate
from the Bryn Mawr-based school. That raised howls of protest from
human-rights groups -- who mistakenly directed their phone
calls and mail to the Missouri school.

   Karademir says the businessman paid $8,000 for
the degree  -- and paid the travel costs for Carey
Rosenthal, the Bryn Mawr school's dean of engineering, to publicly
confer the degree in Myanmar.

   Awarding the doctorate was a "mistake,"
Karademir acknowledges. "If I had known Burma [ Myanmar ]
was a  dictatorship where people are tortured, I would
not have considered it." He says he won't try to get the
degree back.


        ©1998 Philadelphia Newspapers Inc.


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>In a message dated 98-03-10 12:16:39 EST, dohrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
>> As to the criticism, I can only laugh.  I keep seeing the image of Khin
>> Nyunt and his lackeys, with representatives of the "education" system
>> looking on, acting like this "honorary degree" was worth anything at all.
>> Check out the story and photo in New Light of Myanmar!!
>
>> This whole, sick charade is an apt illustration of how the junta looks at
>> education itself.
>
>> Criticizing me personally does nothing to address the issue.
>
>> Larry Dohrs