Posted on 10/01/2010 5:10:30 AM PDT by nuconvert
Disgraced St. John’s University dean, Cecilia Chang, who was charged earlier this month with embezzling over $1 million in donations from the college, was nabbed again today by the FBI and accused using scholarship students as domestic servants.
Chang, 57, allegedly forced students to do her laundry, clean her house, cook and chauffeur her son around.
“Chang threatened the students and placed them in fear that if they refused to perform these personal services they would lose their scholarships and be unable to attend St. John’s,” FBI Special Agent Kenneth Hosey wrote in the arrest warrant.
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Whoa...........that is a mean looking ....female.
yup, I can see why the kids were afraid of her.
12 hours. That was her minimum. “Half the day”.
A new faculty member who specialized in a somewhat "hot" area of theoretical physics told me that her well-known advisor at Cambridge counseled her: "You don't have to be brilliant or a genius. You just have to work 12 hours a day."
I always assumed that this was "how-to-succeed" advice, but maybe it was just how much work he wanted out of her. In any case her career seemed to be starting out very well.
This is especially true if you are a foreigner in a US graduate school. Student visas (rightfully) do not permit foreigners to work off campus, and since the university is most such students' only source of income, they literally have to put up with this in order to stay in school.
In a previous life I was a graduate student... the only reason I did not have to put up with this type of indentured servitude was because as a US citizen I could legally work other jobs.
Depending on the proclivities of your research director, graduate school is some combination of a formal apprenticeship, a term of indentured servitude, and pledging an old-school fraternity.
If you’re lucky, it’ll be mostly like the former.
And the Govt’s with their refusal to pay jurors even Minimum Wage and who will jail someone for resisting “Jury Duty”, are not doing slavery?
“What sort of things should she be prepared for being tossed at her?”
Nothing more than hard work. Anything personal and she should look for a new major professor who has morals and ethics.
Early in my career I was “blessed” with a bunch of female grad students who happened to be my daughters age when they worked with me. I say “blessed” because they all treated my like I was dad and made my life hell, some time I felt like Rodney Dangerfield, to the delight of all my techs who loved them. They all turned out great and are successful and happy.
No, they are not.
The Right to a trial by jury is written in to our Constitution. Juries must be made up of the citizenry. Jury duty is an often unpleasant, but always necessary duty which is part of being a United States citizen.
In civilized societies Rights are accompanied by Responsibilities. It is my opinion that people who loudly demand their Rights as citizens while eschewing the Responsibilities, such as jury duty, which come with that citizenship are either incredibly selfish and lazy (in that they consciously avoid their responsibilities, foisting them off on others) or they are ignorant (in that they do not fully understand the principles upon which the United States is founded).
Jury Duty is not slavery. It is simply one of the Responsibilities which must be borne by citizens who respect and enjoy the Rights which are protected by virtue of United States citizenship.
“Was anyone ever a graduate student research assistant or know someone who was? If you do, this really shouldn’t surprise you at all.”
I was a grad assistant back in the early 1980’s and one business prof thought I was his personal slave. He had me grading papers that were semester research papers for seniors in marketing research. I had no marketing background at all. He had me grade student presentations when he was not in the classroom and then I would notice he would change the grade I gave the student if they were female & pretty!
He didn’t realize I was friends with the university president, had left working for one of the university board of directors members to return for my masters degree, and due to a medical emergency, I ended up leaving the gad. asst. position to take a full time job replacing his boss, the dept. chair. as a professor. Needless to say, that jerk is gone.
I have always managed my employees by treating them with respect and dignity. That’s why they go above and beyond for me. Not because I demand it or theaten them as I would never do that and they know it.
This is a disgrace. St. John’s is my alma mater. This Chang woman embezzled over $1 million fron the U. to support her gambling habit.
I will never donate another buck to an organization that seems to have less oversight and less auditing than the Federal government!
She sure does...and her son, too:
After Chang was fired from the college in June, the terrified exchange student feared she would not be able to attend the school without the dean’s largess.
Chang and her son would often berate the students if they were not satisfied with the performance of their domestic choirs, according to the FBI.
“Chang’s son treated [the student] badly, often yelling and cursing at [her], calling [her] stupid and complaining about the food,” according Hosey.
Another student had to courier cash down to Chang when she was on a gambling jaunt in Atlantic City, the feds allege.
One student was told to doctor the college administrator’s credit card statements for personal expenses so that she could submit them for reimbursement.
The Queens District Attorney socked Chang on September 15 with a 205-count indictment, claiming she ran up $50,000 personal charges monthly and passed them on to the university by submitting phony statements.
Disgraced St. John’s University dean, Cecilia Chang... charged earlier this month with embezzling over $1 million in donations from the college... using scholarship students as domestic servants... to do her laundry, clean her house, cook and chauffeur her son around.
Sure makes me wonder about the politicians, pundits and businessmen who say "The Age Of American Dominance is Over" and "We Should be More Like China."
I no longer wonder why...
They just want *THEIR* turn at the cookie jar.
Cheers!
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