Someone’s sleeper sofa’s gettin’ burned tonite!

Great post until you started calling someone “gay”. I guess you think Boi from Troy is automatically an idiot, despite linking to him on the right.

Regarding the linked article, I believe Crist promised admission into University Club.

Someone call Jethro Bodeen rat now. He could get his medical degree today and become the brain surgeon he always wanted to be. HOT DIGGETY DAWG!!!

This also explains why Doc Fogelsong quit as Prez in Starksville several months ago. Home cookin.

Don’t know what the Guv’s daughter looks like but his niece lives in CLT and is a pure 10.

Florida’s gay governor…

Apparently, Charlie has a girlfriend. And republicans, like Iran and A&M, are not gay.

Bobak—

Perhaps you missed the irony of Crist constantly being referred to as “Florida’s Gay Governor” here, which we could actually care less about. Boi From Troy was our first big break blogging.

“If you would like an MBA from WVU”

I’d rather get mine from University of Phoenix, thank you very much.

I need an MBA on my resume. Is it too late to contact Mike Garrison?

Between this and their Cinderella run at the Fulmer Cup, which is looking worse – WVU athletics or WVU academics?

Orson,

Is TCOAN a good shot?

Couches will be burned NewAZ!

WVU academiks…HA! Never heard of such a thing.

a’ll setel fore sum kreditt howurs.

#5, but that does not rule out bisexual during the transition period.

Yes, I am.

(but that’s not me in the photo)

You’re a fool if you think this had to do with anything BUT the degree scandal. Why would WVU get rid of their President for supposedly lying to Rich? That wouldn’t affect the lawsuit at all, and if anything would just be doing Rich a personal favor. That is assuming that the man who requested the 4 million dollar buyout to begin with isn’t actually lying about what he claims was promised to him by Garrison.

#11: The Futon Clan ain’t nuttin’ to mess with.

By the way, I have an MBA, and one could argue that all MBAs are awarded without having done any work at all.

You didn’t really equate calling in a favor to get someone connected admission to medical school to giving out a degree when the coursework wasn’t complete….did you?

What percent of admissions to every Ivy League school do you suppose got there because of connections? Shoot, my buddy got into Penn because of an influential uncle who wrote a letter, not because he had the grades or scores to get there. But his uncle wasn’t the governor, so I guess it wasn’t news.

Brian—

Yes, we did, since the candidate concerned was the first person ever admitted to Florida med without taking the MCAT.

Cocktails for any and all “Thank You For Smoking” references, Orson.

O – the article said it was a combined bachelors and medical degree program, so the MCAT may not have been the primary factor for admission, and we don’t know what the student’s other credentials were.

The bottom line is that student still had to work their butt off to pass the coursework and graduate once in the program, which is not in the same ballpark as giving out grades and credits for coursework they never did.

The Sultan of Gluton… aren’t they calling him the butcher of the South Pacific?

I mean… I can’t speak to that. In all my dealings with him, he’s been a sensitive, well adjusted man…

1. - but you went to Florida.

rimshot

Hey, you can’t call my Governor “gay”. Oh wait, on second thought, he is gay.

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   I grew up a gator, but my employer paid for my MBA from – and this is not a lie – Florida State.

Rich had nothing to do with Garrison leaving, but Garrison (nee Governor’s Bee-otch) had alot to do with Rich leaving. Garrison was there to do the Gov’s bidding, and when Rich and his agent got to crazed, or in other words, to big for himself, Gov Manchin and others stomped on him — thru Garrison.

The whole shabang was really more centered around getting Huggins in.

Won’t mean a thing to Rich. Garrison’s depo is next week, tho

Proud day! Make all the jokes you want over this one… I’m just glad that fucker FINALLY resigned. This nonsence has been going on for months.

Makes you wonder what the BS on my degree actually stands for…

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Dude, he didn’t even take the MCAT. I’ll admit that I’m not familiar with the program (I believe the honors program he participated in at Northeastern was the one which didn’t require the MCAT, by the way) and you may be right that the MCAT might not have been a primary factor for consideration, but still…there’s no way it was such a non-factor that it need not even have been attempted.

I mean, I could see him slipping by with a low MCAT, but getting into what I would consider to be one of the better medical schools in the southeast without even taking the MCAT— over the objection of the 50-plus member selection committee— is mind-boggling.

What CBG said. Thank God he’ll be gone.

if its a bachelor/med school combo deal, then isn’t he trying to get in right out of high school? who the hell takes the mcat at 18?

Orson and PW, the MCAT is not even a requirement for admission to that program. And if you click over to the selection process link on that page, it doesn’t even mention it as a factor.

So again, this was just an influential person recommending someone get admission to a school, which happens ALL the time.

http://www.alligator.org/articles/2008/05/27/news/uf_administration/080527_kone.txt

It was definitely med school. I don’t think there was a bachelor’s program like UF’s Junior Honors program that some of my friends participated in (and I’m pretty sure they all had to take the MCAT too).

Brian,

“He meets the high academic standards we have set for our medical students, and he is every bit as qualified as [UF’s} Junior Honors students who are so successful when they move on to our medical school,” he wrote.

So this kid wasn’t applying to the Junior Honors program, he was applying to the med school.

Still, I get your point that political connections availeth one much when it comes to admissions into university programs, but to scrap even the most basic requirement goes too far, no?

If that wasn’t the program he was applying for then why would the governor be recommending him for that program?

The governor sent a letter recommending the student to the university’s Junior Honors Medical Program, a highly competitive seven-year program that combines bachelor’s and medical degrees. The letter was sent before Dr. Kone became dean, and he says he never saw it.

Link.

Looks like we have contradictory sources, but mine directly quotes the Dean himself, who says “[He] is every bit as qualified as our Junior Honors students…” which leads me to believe he was not applying to the Junior Honors program, but to the medical school itself.

You do realize that your source is a student run newspaper, right?

And that quote is just comparing the applicant to current program students who go on to the medical school. Meaning he is just as qualified as they are.

I concede your point about the student newspaper (but didn’t TCOAN work for it? or am i thinking about someone else?).

Anyway, it seems odd to me that the admissions committee would’ve listed the fact that he hadn’t taken the LSAT among their reasons for recommending against his admission if he was only applying to the Junior Honors program and not the medical school.

and by LSAT I mean MCAT

Crist’s letter was about his application to the Junior Honors program in 07, but the dean wanted to let him in this year to the regular med school. I agree, that’s not kosher. Here’s another story. If he had just got him into the junior honors program, there’d have been no issue.

I just read the comments after the article on the UF med school blow up. Governor Tan In A Can Crist. Great reference.

Texans haven’t elected an ex-football player as governor…yet. Surprising. We do currently have two cheerleaders in top positions. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson was a UT cheerleader and Governor Rick Perry was a yell leader at A&M. Having a yell leader at the helm would explain the current state of affairs in our glorious state.