Senator Collins will hold her two days of public hearings next week. On Tuesday, it's at 10:00 am in the Hart building...room 216. Day one will be highlighted by the revealing of the Government Accounting Office report on their findings of their degree audit of six agencies + the Pentagon. Possibly the bringing on of the "poor wretch" -- someone already convicted of involvement with a degree mill, to show publicremorse. (This was done at the Cong. Pepper hearings 20 years ago; his committee loved it. That man, Tony Geruntino, showed cried and rent h is garments, and may have had his sentence reduced.) On Wednesday, it's at 10 am in the Dirksen building...room 342 with presentations by the Department of Education, Office of Personnel Management and apparently someone from the senate staff who went undercover to buy a degree. If anyone here is in the DC area -- it is open to the public, and it would be really great to have a first-hand report (and that means you, Rich Douglas; how can you resist. There had been some hope that C-Span might cover it, but I haven't heard.
If it's on C-Span, look really closely at the Poor Wretch. If he has a mole on the . . . oh, never mind.
From http://www.townhall.com/columnists/johnmccaslin/jm20040506.shtml Among those called to testify will be a convicted diploma mill operator, a former mill employee, and the man who developed the most widely used list of fake diplomas. Which one is the poor wretch?
Shall we try to guess who the convicted diploma mill operator will be. Most of the ones I can think of are either back in business, so they wouldn't go (Kirk), or have disappeared (Sinclair, Fowler Brothers) or are unrepentant (Reddeck). Surely not Ronald Pellar?! Or they could recycle Tony Geruntino from the Pepper hearings 20 years ago. It'll be interesting.
I would love to go to the hearings as I am in Reston, VA this week. Unfortunately work beckons and I am unable to get away. John
