Saint Regis bounces back

So it's India for the moment. The James Monroe "University" site now uses India as the source of its national recognition: "ACCREDITED by India's Distance Education Council (DEC)!" There's no mention of Liberia on the JMU accreditation page, though the Contact Us page lists the same old 73 Carey Street, Monrovia address. (Forgot to edit that page, eh? You're welcome.)

Robertstown is still claiming Liberian recognition though, in the words of the Liberian Embassy, its credentials have also been nullified.

The National Board of Education is still cooking away, asserting that it "is recognized by the Education Ministry of The Republic of Liberia." Yeah, right.

So maybe this is what they'll do: gradually reviving everything they had posted before, hoping nobody comes after them.

G

 

I will bet my copy of 'The Wealth of Nations' that the supposed accreditation claimed by JMU in India has any official standing in India.

Just reading the letterhead of the 'accreditation' document is enough to cast serious doubts.

 

(JMU is)....Nationally accredited by the Higher Education Commission of Liberia

straight from a currently online James Monroe page, but I won't tell which one, so they have to search themselves...stupid, if you can't track which pages you have to modify...

 

I don't think I expressed myself well in the last post.

What I meant to say is that I will bet that the accreditation of JMU in India is another fraud!

Is that clear?

 

the SRU professors fight back

Ever see Dark City? In it, a colossal psychology experiment unfolds, in which "reality" is not stable and the past is constantly shifting and changing. It is as compelling, and as disturbing, as life in the shattered city of Bellona in Samuel Delaney's Dahlgren. Memory, perception, and logical coherence are fractured.

We are beginning to see an attempt to retool reality coming forth from various Saint Regis professors. But the feeling it evokes is impatient annoyance, rather than alarm. It is both comic and irritating at the same time. My goodness, who do they think they are kidding?

We have:

• Bob Stefaniak in LiberianForum.com in which he gives his version of events;
• Stefaniak again in LiberianForum.com, this time saying "I've read some pretty outrageous and racist remarks made regarding Liberians on their forum [DegreeInfo] in the past, and would never post there";
• John Dovelos on DegreeBoard.com ;
• Macedon at the SRU-friendly Online Learning Directory.

Just so it's clear, let's recall that the title of the Ministry of Education's statement is "URGENT DISCLAIMER ON THE ILLEGAL ESTABLISHMENT AND RECOGNITION OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA."

Note the presence of the phrase "illegal establishment and recognition."

That means laws were broken. That means SRU was operating in violation of the legal code of the Republic of Liberia. We're not talking about "ladies love outlaws like babies love stray dogs" here, and this isn't rocket science. We're talking about parasites flouting the laws of a civil-war torn country to profit from its distress. We're talking about a business that will sell advanced degrees to investigative reporters, secretaries working for news organizations, factory workers about to lose their jobs, and teachers who subsequently lost theirs.

And don't even think about the pigeons.

G

 

Re: the SRU professors fight back

Fighting against reality is an up hill battle. In this case I believe that it will also be a losing battle.

 

Lest we forget, long before Liberia, St. Regis was "located in" and "accredited by" the island nation of Dominica.

 

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Nevertheless, I've dedicated my life to the struggle.

 

Oh, but John, you are obviously mistaken.

St. Regis was founded in Liberia. It has always been in Liberia.

(It's amazing what revisionist history can accomplish. It's kind of like temporal white-out.)

I halfway expect SRU to settle in India or someplace like that and then to start insisting:

St. Regis was founded in Bangalore in 1956. It has always been in India. Statements that we used to claim to be in Liberia are just criminal defamation being spread by a discredited website called Degreeinfo.

If they are gonna lie, they might as well pull out all the stops and lie audaciously.

 

Re: the SRU professors fight back

As you say, compelling and disturbing. Kind of like 'the Matrix' would have been if it had been co-directed by Salvador Dali and Sigmund Freud.

Everyone has their memories... tuned... every few hours, leaving them oblivious to the fact that today has no resemblance to yesterday and has nothing to do with tomorrow.

The protagonist, John Murdoch, has these recurring fragmentary memories of idyllic childhood days in the sun at a resort called Shell Beach. But while everyone thinks that they are familiar with the place, nobody can say precisely how to get there from out of their surreal city of eternal night.

I found that especially moving because many years ago, when I lived in Southern California, I had a girlfriend who lived in a small coastal town called (yes) Shell Beach. Those were the psychedelic years and my memories of those long-lost youthful days are as disjointed and kaleidoscopic now as anything in John Murdoch's head.

But like him, I still occasionally dream of finding my way back through the twisted maze of time to... Shell Beach.

 

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I know someone who goes diving in the beautiful waters around Dominica every year. Perhaps that can be thought of as "shill beach" for Those Who Promote You-Know-What? Ah, those halcyon pre-Liberia days!

G