Fugitive Scandal May Pose a Hurdle for the New School (Bob Kerrey loves his Hsu)

New York Times ^ | 9/9/07 | AREN W. ARENSON and LESLIE WAYNE

[LdSentinal]

It is the kind of embarrassment that any school would want to avoid: an esteemed board member who has given generously of his time and money gets caught in a headline-grabbing scandal.

And in the case of the New School in Greenwich Village, it turned out to have some national resonance: Norman Hsu, a major Democratic donor active in Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign and a New School trustee, was found to be a fugitive who had skipped out after a felony theft conviction in California 15 years ago.

Compounding matters, he failed to show up for a court date. He was arrested on Thursday in Grand Junction, Colo., after having slipped away from the authorities in California on an Amtrak train. He is now hospitalized under federal custody.

How did someone like Mr. Hsu make his way to the New School’s board?

He was a mover and shaker who was recruited by Bob Kerrey, the university’s president and a former senator from Nebraska, one of several people associated with the school who are prominent in Democratic politics or political fund-raising circles. Until last week Mr. Kerrey had been one of the few people speaking out in Mr. Hsu’s defense, calling him a “terrific member” of the board who was being unfairly pilloried.

[LdSentinal]

Bad timing for Kerrey. Hsu's connection with him may prevent him fron running for the senate.

[fieldmarshaldj]

When has scandal stopped rodents ? This is about making their bones.

[CaptainK]

Perhaps not surprisingly, the New School, which has a liberal tradition and a reputation for left-leaning faculty and a former political official as president, has a board sprinkled with politically active trustees.

Take out the name New School and insert any Ivy League school.

[Clintonfatigued]

This could make Kerry not run, if the story has any legs.

[counterpunch]

Yeah, but how are we going to keep this story alive and growing for a year?

[EDINVA]

perfect timing, wouldn’t you say ? Hagel says he’s not running, Kerrey wants back in the Senate, and Hsu leaves egg foo yong on Kerrey’s face.

[zip]

ping

[libstripper]

It all gets curiouser and curiouser. Every one of the New School's board members except Hsu has a prominent position with one or more businesses and is highly compensated in that position, giving him or her the financial wherewithal, reputation, and group of prosperous friends necessary to serve on that board. The brief vetting the MSM has done of HSU in the last few days has shown him to be a bankrupt grifter and fugitive from justice. Normally people who are as prominent as Kerry and Schwartz know, through the "old boy network," if nothing else, where potential board members come from and who they are. Any reasonable vetting would have shown Hsu to be poison, unless a number of people on that board, particularly Bernie Schwartz, knew exactly who Hsu actually was and deliberately put him on the board to give him respectability and cover. Given Schwartz's and the Clintons' close prior relationship with the Chicoms, that's probably what happened, meaning the Clintons and the DemonRat party knew exactly who Hsu was and what his job for the Chicom government was.

[mewzilla]

FWIW, Here's a .pdf of the annual report from the New School for '05/06.

Hsu's mentioned about a half dozen times. He's listed as a trustee, but most of the mentions are for gifts to the school.

I wonder if Kerrey will see that the school returns the money.

[Non-Sequitur]

I don’t think Kerry is a serious opponent even if he does run. He hasn’t lived in the state since he left office. His ties to the state are weak at best.

[NeoCaveman]

Bob Kerrey, Bernie Schwartz of Loral, and Norman Hsu are all part of the New School, this is not a coincidence.

[mplsconservative]

Al Franken’s ties to the state of Minnesota are weak at best, as well.

The liberals are rallying around him despite that fact.

Maybe the good people of Nebraska aren’t as crazy as some Minnesotans.

[Non-Sequitur]

Minnesota is a whole lot more red than Nebraska is, Cornhusker uniforms not withstanding. And Coleman is in more trouble than the GOP in Nebraska are.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

Repeat after me: Bernard L. Schwartz.

Bernard L. Schwartz.

Bernard L. Schwartz.

Bernard L. Schwartz put Norman Hsu on the Board of Trustees of The New School:

http://www.newschool.edu/administration.html

Screen capture here:

http://s175.photobucket.com/albums/w146/luciusvorenusfreeper/?action=view&current=new_school_hsu_schwartz.jpg

Bernard L. Schwartz parties down at fundraisers with Norman Hsu:

http://www.creators.com/opinion/robert-novak/will-newt-run.html

A further 148,000 pages at Google listing both their names [up from 109,000 when the scandal broke]:

http://www.google.com/search?safe=off&q=%2BBernard+%2BSchwartz++%2BNorman+%2BHsu

And, of course, Bernard L. Schartz taught the Chicoms how to build missiles that could make their way out of the lower atmosphere, giving rise to Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles which could reach the continental United States and anti-satellite missiles which could take out our command and control infrastructure:

http://www.google.com/search?safe=off&q=loral+china+missile

Bernard L. Schartz should be hung for treason.

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PS: WorldNetDaily has [finally!] picked up on the story:

Is the other Hsu about to drop?
Hillary's donor linked to China missile trader
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57450

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PPS: Freeper TommyDale says we need to keep alive the name of Kearn A. Cottingham.

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[mplsconservative]

Good info. Thanks!

Do you know if Omaha is still fairly conservative? I used to travel there quite a bit some years ago. I loved the place, especially the old town and the Henry Doorly Zoo.

[Non-Sequitur]

Do you know if Omaha is still fairly conservative? I used to travel there quite a bit some years ago. I loved the place, especially the old town and the Henry Doorly Zoo.

Omaha is about as liberal as Nebraska gets. And that isn't much.

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[Suzy Quzy]

Bernie Schwartz is bought and paid for by the Chinese Communist Party, and Hsu is another operative of the Chinese.

[AnimalLover]

bttt

[Aikonaa]

From wikipedia:

The New School for Social Research continues the Graduate Faculty's tradition of synthesizing progressive American intellectual thought and critical European philosophy. True to its origin and its firm roots within the University in Exile, The New School for Social Research, particularly its Department of Philosophy, is one of very few in the United States to offer students thorough training in the modern continental European philosophical tradition known as "Continental philosophy." Thus, it stresses the teachings of Aristotle, Locke, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Freud, Benjamin, Wittgenstein, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, et al. [1] The thought of the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School of Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Jürgen Habermas, et al. holds an especially strong influence on all divisions of the school.

In other words, the primary mission of this school is to push the hard-left Critical Theory and other forms of Cultural Marxism. Wasn't Bob Kerrey supposed to be a 'moderate' Democrat?