The Truth

BY: DR. FOREST LEWIS

I will be honest with you, I am getting great joy out of telling this story.

This story involves Marilee Jones, who up until a day ago, was a well known, and well liked Dean at the famed Massachusetts Institute of Technology(M.I.T). Jones worked at the celebrated university for nearly thirty years. And for nearly thirty years, her colleagues thought that she was a woman "With Letters" from well known higher learning institutions.

Jones, the Dean of Admissions at M.I.T., stated on her resume' that she held degrees from Union College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Albany Medical College. It turns out that Jones never attended Union College or the Albany Medical College. A spokesman for R.P.I. said Jones attended his university as a part-time non-matriculating student from September 1974 until June 1975. Jason Gorss said Jones was never awarded a degree of any kind.

A red-faced, M.I.T. Chancellor Phil Clay said that his world famous university had no knowledge of Jones possessing any undergraduate or graduate degree. Why not? Didn't M.I.T. owe it to its customers, the students, to properly vet this lying woman? Tuition at M.I.T. isn't cheap. The cost per year to each student is nearly "35,000.00." Let me repeat that figure, "35,000.00."

And to tell me that M.I.T. couldn't check the credentials of one Marilee Jones? Balderdash! Employers no longer accept you bringing in your degree(s). I know that at my last job, where I was employed as a Staff Psychologist, I had to give my hospital written permission to contact my university, and request the date I received my Ph.D. That is not a difficult chore to perform. But if you have a lez sez-faire attitude, I would imagine that it is onerous.

It is obvious that you can not enter a Ph.D. program without showing proof that you have received your bachelor's and master's degrees. So, how is it that Marilee Jones slipped below the radar?

This woman was a well liked liberal. People like her, present with supreme confidence, and intellect. So, when you factor in that she more than likely grew close to those who performed M.I.T.'s vetting of staff, it is plausible that she was able to convinced those in control that there was no need to ask for her credentials.

Jones is not the first person to get caught in a web of lies. It happens all of the time in the field of academia. People with "No" medical experience, not to mention degrees, have performed major operations, in American hospitals. Individuals have ran major corporations, lacking business degrees.

CNN sent a reporter to M.I.T. Naturally, the reporters looked to put a positive spin on the story. He found students who said they liked Jones because she had done a good job for their university. Never mind the fact that the woman is a pathological liar. If this woman had been a conservative, she would have been "toast" in the minds of the hit and run media. But, because Jones is a liberal, she gets a pass on criticism.

What does her behavior say to our children? Cheat, and you will get ahead? Take the job of another person, even though you know you have padded your resumes with lies? I am hoping that this woman never had any teaching duties. If so, the credits that she approved, could not be accepted because she lacks the qualifications to teach.

Jones developed a reputation as a popular speaker on the college admissions circuit. I wonder how much money did she acquire from her speaking engagements? You just can't make this stuff up. Liberals love being made suckers of!

During her speeches, Jones would call on parents to not push their offspring too hard. Her advice to students, "There are more important things than getting into the most prestigious colleges." Well, she should know. Talk about projecting.

Jones even re-wrote M.I.T's application. She said she hoped that her work would get students to be more open about themselves and their passions, and downplay their accomplishments.

Jones should have been woman enough to follow her own advice. Marilee Jones is a sad/pathetic individual who is fraught with fear and jealously. She lacks the intestinal fortitude to earn her way through life. So, she lies. She calls on others to not talk about their goals and accomplishments. The reason why she choose this tactic was to, in her mind, not feel inferior. The paradox is that this woman feels inferior to anyone who is educated.

In the end, it is people like Marilee Jones who eventually gets caught and are banished from our society. They leave us embarassed and crestfallen. If Marilee Jones is looking for someone to blame, all she needs to do is look into the mirror.

During her twenty-eight years at M.I.T., this woman made a great living as a charlatan. I am sure that M.I.T. paid her great money. Somewhere in America, there is a man or woman who is ticked off at M.I.T. for selecting a pseudo-scholar over them. And the sadness to this story is that it didn't have to happen.

What is really pathetic is that there are other Marilee Jones teaching at Major Universities as I write this column. And many lack even a G.E.D.

Is it just me? I feel that anything that a lib touches turns to, well I think you get my drift!

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