From the August 30, 2015, Chicago Tribune by Mark Jacob and Stephan Benzkofer.
Illinois' University of Illinois has been in the news a lot of late as well as College of DuPage. And not for good reasons. Our intrepid researchers have been at it again, coming up with some obscure and interesting things. They really should consider putting these Ten things in a book.
1. HENRY FORD II, grandson of the famous automaker, left Yale in 1940 after he was caught hiring someone to write a research paper for him.
Visiting the college decades later to give a speech, he told the audience, "I didn't write this one either."
2. Who reads those COLLEGE CREDENTIALS anyway. And why do so many people lie about them. Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson stepped down in May because he claimed he had a computer science degree from Stonehill College, which didn't offer the degree when he was there.
Coach George O'Leary at Notre Dame lost his job in 2001 when he claimed a degree he didn't have. Same with Marilee Jones as dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007.
The best story, however, was Bausch & Lomb CEO Ronald Zarrella who, after it was revealed that he didn't have a New York University master's degree lost a $1 million bonus, but kept his job and $10 million in pay after that. The company's board said a firing would not be in the best interest of the stockholders.
Things That Make You Go "Hhhmmmmm." --Cooter
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