Saint Regis faculty have detachable heads???

While we're on the subject of unusual features of the Saint Regis faculty page (at http://saintregis.edu.lr/faculty.htm), here's something amusingly odd that merits, literally, a close look. It is an entertaining example of how naive we are to trust things we find on the Saint Regis University site.

Some of the faculy photos of SRU professors have the appearance of being reworked clumsily with a picture editor. Here are two apparent examples of a professor's head being glued onto another guy's body.

In the portrait of Professor David L. Wiles, the head of Mr. Wiles seems to be attached to the body of Professor Dr. Dennis Chandler. Compare the details of the collar, tie, and neck region, enlarged so that single pixels are easily visible, in Mr. Wiles' and Mr. Chandler's portraits. Mr. Chandler's photo looks like an original.

In the portrait of Professor Dr. William A. Harrison, Mr. Harrison's head seems to be attached to the body of someone with considerably lighter skin. Look at details of the neck region, where imperfect cropping of the image of Mr. Harrison's head reveals lighter-toned skin between the straight-line crops and the shirt collar. In addition, a comparison of Mr. Harrison's picture with a mirror-reversed version of the portrait of Dr. Adino Bryson Guevara shows that details of the lie of their collars and the patterns (and knotting) of their ties are identical. But the region around Mr. Guevara's head looks cropped, and the color of the skin of most of his neck does not match the color of the skin just above the color. It might be that neither of the heads in the two portraits is shown attached to its proper body.

A reasonable conclusion is that some of the SRU photos are doctored, with heads and bodies of different people being shown as fused into single, well-dressed individuals. I wonder why they bothered to do this? Could it be that the professors did not know that pictures of their faces were going to appear on the SRU site, and were not wearing suits when their faces were photographed?

Attached are the jpegs.

G

 

On 19 November 2003, the following story appeared in many newspapers: US surgeons ready to perform first face transplant.

And now we find that St. Regis has beaten the U.S. surgeons to this medical milestone. Who can ever doubt St. Regis again?

I am so proud to be an African. In 1967, Christiaan Barnard at Groote Schuur performed the first human heart transplant. And now 36 years later, St. Regis has performed the first human face transplants!

What a happy day.

 

This is a clever money-saving scheme that has long been quietly employed, even at the better private universities, where it might be desirable to save money on staff pay. Each professor is encouraged to develop a completely alternate identity, usually of a person of another race, and teach classes in another unrelated department or departments where they are unlikely to be recognized by students. The faculty is aided in this endeavor with carefully manufactured, custom full-head masks supplied by the school's theater arts department. In this way a school can actually employ 1/2 to even 1/3 the number of faculty listed in the catalog, saving money for staff Christmas parties, pic-nics, and sabaticals.

 

Hey Galanga! Hats off, gentlemen, a genius!

I always wondered what they did with Michael Jackson's melanin.

(And I thought I was pretty sneaky way back, spotting the fake Liberian uniform on an old gent standing in front of a US, not a Liberian, flag--visible point of star wrong size. I got nothing on Galanga!)

 

Yes, great detective work.

Aren't there still shortages in Liberia? Perhaps many Liberians don't have access to suits or ties?

 

Or heads, or arms, or feet (or was that Sierra Leone?).

 

Yes. A very nice embalming job. I didn't know that St. Regis awarded degrees in mortuary science?

 

I have long suspected that they where doing some lousy cut and pasting and cropping but I have been reluctant to voice my opinion on the matter.

Thanks Galanga!

 

uh oh, it looks like more head swapping!

Here is another apparent instance of different Saint Regis Faculty heads sharing the same Faculty body on http://saintregis.edu.lr/faculty.htm.

Professor Dr. Paul Silva, Professor Dumalo Banang G'ding, and Professor David Gbawoquiya all seem to be wearing a suit and tie with identical visual details, except that G'ding's body is mirror-reversed relative to the other two portraits.

Attached is a jpeg showing details of the neck regions, with G'ding's photo flipped about the vertical axis. Silva's photo might be an original; the other two show clumsy cropping around the heads.

This is very silly. On to other things.

G

 

You're right it is very silly! It is so silly as to be amusing. It makes one wonder where the crop of heads were harvested from? What were these heads originally doing? Do these heads know that they've been harvested and grafted on to new bodies? Is the new head environment a positive repository for academic achievement or just less negative? Can the duplicated bodies even substain the new heads in a manner required for intellectual growth and enlightenment? Not to mention the sad story of the now headless bodies, are they destined to be skeletons hidden in closets?

 

It adds a whole new dimension of meaning to "Department Head."

 

Remember a b-movie called "They Saved Hitler's Brain"?

 

SRU reacts...

...by recropping the photo of Professor David Gbawoquiya so the white stripe on his tie is no longer visible.

However, they still haven't fixed Professor Dr. William A. Harrison's neck. Maybe if they move him his head will fall off.

G

 

Re: SRU reacts...

Yes. He reminds me of a cartoon character I used to watch when I was a kid - Gumby and Pokey

 

ALL the heads fell off... and something's cooking at the embassy

...well actually they just were buried one level deeper in the web site. http://saintregis.edu.lr/faculty.htm now lists faculty and areas of somthing-or-other, but hides their heads under the click-me links.

It still looks like Professor David L. Wiles' head is attached to the body of Professor Dr. Dennis Chandler, etc. etc.

The specified areas of... specialization can be odd: Wiles' is listed as "Philosophy" but he holds a "Master of Philosophy in Marine Sedimentology" and other non-philosophical credentials.

Curious: "Dr. Novak's August 2003 trip" (http://saintregis.edu.lr/news_update_from_ghana.htm) is now a blank page. Perhaps a web mistress error?

The accreditation page is a little different too: there's now a name attached to the Liberian embassy, Washington DC contact info: it says

Embassy of The Republic of Liberia
Mrs. Cooper
5201 16th Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20011

Phone: 202-723-0437 / Fax: 202-723-0436.

Something is going on at the embassy, I bet.

I wonder if it's still true that 75% of SRU pigeons are eligible for AA degrees.

G

 

the body to which the heads are attached

Please refer to the attached jpeg image, whose link is below.

On the left is a photograph of Richard J. Hoyer from a 10/18/2000 archive of www.4acollegedegree.com.

On the right is the photo of Professor Dr. William A. Harrison from the Saint Regis faculty page, but mirror-reversed.

Note the similarity of the ties and the suits. It appears that Mr. Harrison's head has been attached (imperfectly) to Mr. Hoyer's body.

G

 

What first made you notice the doctoring of the photos, Galanga?

 

their heads didn't look... right

A number of the portraits have always looked ...odd, with heads on bodies at unnatural angles, or collars running into jawlines in ways that didn't seem physically possible.

Something just clicked, I guess, and I took a closer look.

Another example of this is the portrait of Professor Kenneth Gyide Harding. It looks as though his collar on his left side (our right side) has sliced through his jaw, or else he has pulled his chin inside his collar. The line of the collar is straight, and just looks ...unnatural.

I've attached an enlarged piece of the Mr. Harding portrait to illustrate.

G

 

Also, one of the black professors has a rim of white skin just above his shirt collar. Of course, it could be vitiligo, and Charles Taylor could be a benefactor to the human race, and St Regis could be a real university, and...
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Boima T. Kiadii's signature also appeared on some of the "accreditation documents". Now he is a perfesser.
If this were a real university, this would be a conflict of interest. As it is, I guess it's multitasking.

 

lolz

btw: what is the ".lr" supposed to signify?